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00:08That's me, Fred the Housecat.
00:10When my family leaves for the day,
00:12I don't just sit inside watching the world go by.
00:16I become...
00:20Nature Cat! Backyard Explorer extraordinaire!
00:25Tally-ho!
00:27Tally-ho!
00:28We're climbing out the trees now.
00:30We're swinging through the breeze now.
00:32We're getting muddy knees now.
00:34Nature Cat! Nature Cat! Nature Cat!
00:36Nature Cat! Nature Cat! Nature Cat!
00:39So what are we waiting for?
00:41We're so excited to explore
00:43All that nature has in store.
00:45We're nature cat! Go, go!
00:46Tally-ho! Go, go, go!
00:48Tally-ho!
00:49We're the favorite nature guide.
00:52We just can't wait to get outside!
00:55We're swimming through the trees now.
00:56We're jumping in the leaves now.
00:58We're getting muddy knees now.
01:00We're getting hard cut!
01:01Tally-ho!
01:03Tally-ho!
01:04Tally-ho!
01:26Tally-ho!
01:44Tally-ho!
01:48Tally-ho!
01:52Tally-ho!
01:55Tally-Ya!
01:56Tally-ho!
01:57Tally-to-theass!
01:58I'm going to snuggle them right now.
01:59Hell, those are wild baby bunnies.
02:02They are not pets like moi.
02:04You cannot just approach a wild animal,
02:07no matter how cute it is.
02:09And now I know you definitely cannot snuggle a wild animal
02:12either, neither, neither, either.
02:14Daisy, I know we can't just go and befriend
02:17every super adorable wild animal we meet,
02:20but we can't just leave.
02:22Look at them.
02:23Oh, you're right, Nate.
02:25They're just too snuggable for us
02:27to abandon and ignore.
02:28You're right, but they're not pets like my family.
02:32They are fellow bunnies, so I feel responsible.
02:35Plus, I found them, and they are cute.
02:37Why are they alone?
02:39Where's their mama?
02:40Where's their papa?
02:41Are they going to be okay?
02:42Why is the mama not with her babies?
02:45Daisy, look at me, and breathe, okay?
02:48In through the nose.
02:49Hold for three, and exhale through the mouth.
02:53Very nice.
02:55Thanks, Hal.
02:55Oh, I needed that.
02:57And we need a plan to babysit these bunnies
02:59without actually, you know, babysitting these bunnies.
03:04I know a lot about nature,
03:06but not a lot about wild animal care.
03:08Man, oh man, this is such a problem.
03:12You know, whenever I have a problem
03:14that seems too hairy for me to solve on my own,
03:16I consult my mama.
03:18Mama Chewinski, that is.
03:20That's it, Hal.
03:21You're a genius.
03:23Thanks, Daisy.
03:24Daisy, a word?
03:26You know that's a dog toy in a wig, right?
03:27No, not Mama Chewinski, the bunny's mama.
03:32We need to find her and make sure she's okay
03:34and ask her why these bunnies are all alone.
03:37On it.
03:38Got it.
03:38Watch this.
03:41Will the mother of these super cute
03:43and super alone baby bunnies
03:45please return to the nest and snuggle with them
03:47or whatever it is you do.
03:51I don't think it worked, buddy.
03:53And remember, we shouldn't yell around wild animals.
03:58How are we going to find her?
04:00Oh, I know we could leave a trail of cheese
04:02and pre-shelled roasted salted nuts
04:06around their burrow.
04:07That always attracts me.
04:17Yeah, so good.
04:19Even if you didn't eat all the snacks,
04:22I don't think that would have worked.
04:23Bunnies don't eat nuts and cheese
04:25and besides, you shouldn't feed
04:27most kinds of wild animals.
04:30Nature Cat's right.
04:31We're just going to have to find their mother ourselves.
04:34Did someone say,
04:36find a mommy adventure?
04:38I guess I did.
04:39Those little baby bunnies seem so helpless.
04:42How can they be on their own?
04:43We'll have to search.
04:45I'm in.
04:45Me too.
04:46Me too, too.
04:47Also, also.
04:48To the wild lands
04:49to find the bunny's mommy.
04:53Tally-ho!
04:56Climbing up this mountain
04:57for a better view did not help.
04:59I see no mother bunnies anywhere.
05:03Mama bunny!
05:07Wow, she has to be out here somewhere.
05:10Whenever Granny Bunny disappears,
05:11I usually find her hang gliding or mountain climbing.
05:15And that is why I love Granny Bunny so much.
05:18She's extreme.
05:19Whoa, look over there.
05:21This is it!
05:22I'm so excited!
05:24We're going to meet...
05:25A wolf spider!
05:27A wolf spider!
05:28Ahem.
05:29Correction.
05:29A mama wolf spider.
05:31Look back there.
05:32I think those are spider eggs.
05:33It says here that wolf spiders can lay as many as 100 eggs or more.
05:39Yeah, 100 seems about right.
05:42And according to this,
05:44when the eggs hatched,
05:45the mama carries her spiderlings on her back for several days.
05:49What if that is what the bunny's mother is supposed to do?
05:53And just spider-wise,
05:55when those several days are up,
05:56the hundreds go where?
05:58They head off on their own!
05:59On their own?
06:01All alone?
06:02Hold on.
06:02At barely a week old,
06:04the tiny little spiderlings head off into the big world on their own?
06:08Huh.
06:09I didn't know some kinds of creatures can make it on their own so young.
06:13Huh.
06:13So maybe it's the same for baby bunnies?
06:15Like they leave the nest now on their own?
06:16Except they're not...
06:17Terrifying!
06:18It could be, but I'm still worried.
06:21The view from up here is not helping.
06:23Let's go somewhere where we know rabbits spend time.
06:26Like a meadow.
06:27Let's go!
06:28Agreed!
06:31Tally-ho!
06:32Grass as far as the eye can see!
06:35Oh, look!
06:36Everyone's favorite!
06:37Bison!
06:38Oh, when I was little, I wanted one for a pet.
06:40Then I realized that they were like 2,000 times my size.
06:43So cute!
06:44Oh, so snuggable!
06:46Isn't it the cutest?
06:47Hey, no snugs, Hal.
06:48Looks like that's a mother bison on her calf.
06:50I wouldn't try to get in the middle of that.
06:52Where are all of the other calves?
06:54Hmm.
06:55It says here that bison usually give birth to one calf a year.
06:59Wow!
07:00Imagine being an only child!
07:02A baby bison calf is born away from the herd.
07:06And the mother focuses on protecting it until it's old enough to be on its own.
07:10A calf stays with its mama for one year.
07:14Interesting, interesting.
07:15So do we think the baby bunnies are more like the wolf spiderlings or the bison calf?
07:20Well, we're not going to find out by watching the bison.
07:23Let's find that mama bunny.
07:25What else can we do?
07:26Oh, hey!
07:27You know what?
07:28I know something that always attracts bunnies.
07:30It's sure to lure their mom.
07:32What's that?
07:33A bunny hop.
07:37Is it working?
07:39Is what working?
07:40The dance, kids!
07:41Oh, is that what this is?
07:44I don't see any bunnies, but I think this is super fun.
07:49Okay, okay.
07:49I'm going to have to call a halt to dance time.
07:52We haven't attracted a single bunny mother, and we really need to get those babies taken care of.
07:57We shall noteth give a bith.
08:00We shall find mommy bunny.
08:02Onward and yonward.
08:07Oh, no.
08:08We've been searching for most of the day, and we haven't found her.
08:11I'm really worried.
08:13Ah, there's got to be another way to find a missing mama bunny.
08:17I got it.
08:18Bunnies like carrots, right?
08:20Well, most animals like carrots, how?
08:22They contain a lot of natural sugars.
08:24Then they just can do, you see?
08:25Well, then.
08:27Ta-dee!
08:28Time to lure the mama bunny to us, and then we can take her back to her babies.
08:33Cool costume.
08:34You just had that?
08:35I know, right?
08:36I got it on sale.
08:37It was at Ricky's.
08:38It was one of those Halloween stores.
08:40It's only there.
08:40Anyway, all right, mama bunny, come and eat me.
08:44Oh, stop it.
08:45Stop that.
08:46Bad horsey.
08:47No.
08:48Bad horsey, no.
08:51Well, we didn't achieve what we were going for, but man, it was funny.
08:55Bad plan, but hilarious bit.
08:57We need to do some more thinking.
08:59We've looked high and low.
09:01Oh, maybe the forest is the place.
09:03You know, I just remembered something from episode 504A.
09:07Rabbits like edge habitats.
09:09We should look around where the forest meets the meadow.
09:12Look!
09:14A family of foxes!
09:17Did you all know that both the mama and papa fox and older siblings help raise the fox kits?
09:23Granny Bunny told me all about foxes.
09:26Huh, so fox kits have a lot of adults around to help raise them?
09:31Yep!
09:31So maybe along with mama bunny, we should also be looking for a papa bunny or another mama bunny or
09:36baby bunnies or cousins or adopted baby bunnies and other things?
09:41Sounds like it.
09:42Wow, baby foxes truly have an entourage to take care of them, right?
09:46Where's E and Turtle and Kevin Dillon?
09:49Oh, look!
09:50They're done playing, I guess.
09:53Oh, I'm going to miss staring at them from a distance.
09:56Oh, me too.
09:59What's wrong, Daisy?
10:00I'm just really worried about those baby bunnies, and we've looked everywhere and tried everything to find their parents, and
10:08we didn't.
10:09Well, you did your best, Daisy.
10:11That's always enough.
10:12Yeah, and today we saw different animals raise their young in different ways.
10:17Gosh, we really learned a lot on this episode.
10:19This might be the Emmy episode.
10:21And we learned that some kind of really young animals can be on their own at a really young age.
10:26Because they're mature.
10:28Maybe the mama bunny doesn't parent like any of the animals we saw today.
10:32Maybe those bunnies are okay.
10:34We still don't know.
10:36But we learned a lot, and we had fun, and Hal was a good carrot.
10:39I sure was.
10:40And now we can go back with our heads held high, knowing we tried our best and did the best
10:47we could.
10:48You're right.
10:48I think I'm just going to call Granny Bunny and tell her to meet us at the meadow.
10:52She'll know what to do.
10:53To the meadow!
10:54To the meadow!
10:58Oh, my poor little Daisy.
11:00I'm so sorry you were worried.
11:03Oh, Granny Bunny, we searched everywhere.
11:06I feel like I let the baby bunnies down.
11:09You didn't.
11:10Look.
11:13Oh!
11:15Hal, some things are best experienced in silence.
11:19Please.
11:19She came back?
11:21Where was she?
11:22She probably went out to eat or find fluff for the nest.
11:26So the baby bunnies were okay all along?
11:29See how she hid the nest and the shrubs?
11:31That's to help keep her baby safe when she leaves to find food.
11:36And believe it or not, those babies will be able to live on their own in just a few weeks.
11:41Oh, like those little spiderlings.
11:44Huh.
11:45Now, the wolf spider had a lot of babies.
11:47And the bison had just one.
11:48So I wonder if that's one reason why the mama bison spent so much time with her calf.
11:53Exactly.
11:54The different ways wild animals raise their young sure wasn't what I expected.
11:58I guess we just can't assume when we see a baby wild animal that it's helpless.
12:02Now, who wants to play the cat?
12:06Yee-hoo!
12:10Yee-hoo!
12:12King of the Backyard Bouncy Castles
12:22Ooh, what is that, Nature Cat?
12:25Oh, is it a giant squeak toy?
12:26It's got to be a giant squeak toy.
12:28Please say it's a giant squeak toy, baby.
12:29You'll see as soon as I inflate it.
12:32Hurry, Nature Cat, please!
12:38Uh, maybe just try pressing the button?
12:41Button?
12:47Whoa!
12:49It's a bouncy castle!
12:51I have always wanted to bounce on one!
12:54Onward and castleward!
12:58Yay!
13:04Maybe don't put so much bounciness in your bounce.
13:07Try this amount of bouncitude.
13:09Woo-hoo!
13:10Yeah!
13:11Okay, here I go!
13:13With a little less bouncitude.
13:16Ha-ha!
13:19Looks like, mayhaps, I need another bouncy castle right here!
13:30Wait, there are hoof prints here, Nature Cat!
13:34Ah, probably just from the deer that walk back and forth on the edge of my yard all the time.
13:38But if you put the castle here, won't it get in the way of the deer's walking path?
13:43It won't matter! Deer are resourceful!
13:45They'll find a new way to get wherever they're going!
13:47Come on!
13:48Come on, let's bounce!
13:52Woo-hoo!
13:55Woo-hoo!
13:57Woo-hoo!
13:58Woo-hoo!
13:59Woo-hoo!
13:59Web is unlicious!
14:00Oh, I can do this all day!
14:02Me too!
14:03Me too too also!
14:05So, let's bounce the day away!
14:17I love the smell of bouncing in the morning!
14:24Oh, no!
14:29Daisy, what happened to your beautiful flowers?
14:32Uh-oh, do you think they had a bouncy castle, Mishap?
14:34I think it was the deer!
14:36Why on earth would you think it was the deer?
14:39Because of the deer tracks!
14:41I think the bouncy castles were in the deer's way,
14:43so they found another path and walked through my garden!
14:47Maybe we should move the bouncy castles.
14:49No! I have a bouncier idea!
14:58There! Now the deer can't walk through your garden!
15:01So come on, let's have a ball and bounce!
15:04But Nature Cat, now the deer will have no way through the yard at all!
15:09They'll just find a new path to walk!
15:11Now come on, it's bouncing time!
15:16Woo-hoo!
15:18Woo-hoo!
15:20Woo-hoo!
15:21Woo-hoo!
15:29Oh, no!
15:33My bouncy castle!
15:37Tape! Someone get tape! Quick!
15:40Pal, that's not the kind of tape that can help with bouncy castles!
15:44Oh, I guess you're not a fan of the Piano Man, Billy Joe!
15:48This should do the trick!
15:50When in doubt, duct tape!
15:53Phew!
15:55Phew!
15:55I...
15:55That was a close one!
15:58Now, who's ready to get that bouncy castle on?
16:02But what about the deer?
16:04What about them?
16:05Well, they obviously wanted to get through here!
16:08In fact, I think the back edge of your yard may be part of a wildlife corridor!
16:13A wildlife what now?
16:15A wildlife corridor!
16:17It's a path animals use over and over again as they travel to get water and food!
16:23I think you have a wildlife corridor that goes right through the back of your yard!
16:27Don't be silly!
16:29If my yard had a wildlife corridor, don't you think I'd know all about it?
16:34Here comes some more deer! Let's watch and see where they're going!
16:36See if they're after no good!
16:38You see? Those deer want to walk through!
16:41But the bouncy castles are blocking their way!
16:45They're looking for a way around, but the garden fence is blocking them!
16:53There! The deer found a new path! And we can bounce the day away!
16:59Come on, my bouncing buddies! Bounce with me! Just bounce with me! Just bounce with me! Just-
17:05Sorry, Nature Cat! I just don't feel right bouncing on castles that are getting in the way of the deer!
17:11Oh, come on, Daisy! The deer are fine!
17:14What about you, Squeaks? Let's do the old bounceroonie!
17:17I finally see that it's at the expense of the deer. I can no longer bounce. Not today.
17:24You'll bounce with me, won't you, Hal? My old bouncing pal?
17:28How can I bounce when all I can think about are those poor deer who have no wildlife corridor to
17:34move to and fro and fro and to through?
17:37Gosh, what am I even saying anymore? These riders are insane this season!
17:42This is my backyard! I have the right to do whatever I want with it!
17:45I was here first!
17:48Hoo!
17:48Ah!
17:51That owl hoot startled me!
17:54What hoot? I was asking who was here first, you or the deer?
17:59Well, I was, of course!
18:02Wrong!
18:02Whatever do you mean?
18:05Generations of deer and other animals have been walking along this corridor long before there were houses here.
18:14Way back before there was even a house, the deer and other animals would cross right here.
18:22No!
18:23Yes!
18:24Then when the houses went up, the deer still crossed here.
18:28Really?
18:30Absolutely!
18:31And even up until the other day, before you put those bouncy contraptions in, the deer would cross right here.
18:41What's so important to them? Why do they need to cross here?
18:45Why don't you follow the path and sail for yourself?
18:49Okay, I will! Tally ho!
18:53Now I just need to follow these deer tracks.
18:56Hmm, it appears that the deer passed through the back edge of my yard to get to the woods.
19:01Maybe to find food or shelter.
19:05Oh, now the tracks go this way! Tally ho!
19:16A stream!
19:18Oh!
19:19Maybe they drink here!
19:20Ooh!
19:21Ah!
19:24The deer, obviously, that's who.
19:26Of course they drink here.
19:28Don't you think the deer have a right to drink water?
19:31Yes, but the deer can just find a new path to the food and water.
19:36Sure, but the path they had was a safe route.
19:38Finding a new path won't be as safe to travel.
19:42And that means it's harder for animals to get what they need to survive.
19:46Are you picking up what I'm rooting down?
19:48I never thought about that.
19:51And the new path could be quite dangerous.
19:55You don't think the new path is dangerous, do you?
19:58Only one way to find out.
20:00We gotta follow that new path!
20:06There it is!
20:17This path goes right past my house, and leads right to-
20:24The new path is dangerous.
20:26I can't let the deer go this way.
20:28I was so concerned about doing what I want,
20:30I didn't even think about what the deer might want or need.
20:34Somebody's got to fix this, and I think I know who it is.
20:38Who?
20:39Me! That's who.
20:40Thanks for opening my eyes, owl.
20:44You were right, Daisy.
20:45The deer do use a path at the back edge of all these yards.
20:49Other animals, too.
20:50So your yard is a wildlife corridor?
20:54Yep.
20:55And the owl told me they've been using this path for years.
20:58It takes them safely to the places
21:00where they find what they need to survive.
21:03And what are you going to do about it, Nature Cat?
21:06Well, just because it's my backyard
21:08doesn't mean other animals in nature
21:10don't have the right to use it.
21:12So, I'm going to get rid of all the castles.
21:17Goodbye, bouncy fun.
21:23Maybe you don't have to get rid of them, Nature Cat.
21:25What do you mean?
21:26They're blocking the deer's wildlife corridor.
21:29There might be a way for you to have your bouncy castles
21:31without blocking the wildlife corridor, you know?
21:34How?
21:34You just got to plan carefully where you put them.
21:37You got to think about where the deer are going to pass through.
21:39That is a brilliant idea, Squeaks.
21:42Onward and planward.
21:54Oh, it's no use.
21:58I just can't get my bouncing straight.
22:01Looks like my bouncing days are over.
22:04Wait.
22:05My brain is coming up with an idea.
22:08It's coming.
22:09Wait for it.
22:10I can feel it working its way out there.
22:13And there it is.
22:17Tiddy.
22:18Now the castles are set up so you can bounce,
22:20and there is a clear path
22:22so the deer can have their wildlife corridor.
22:25Oh, this is great, Hal.
22:28Give it a bounce, Nature Cat.
22:32Tiddy.
22:32Ho!
22:33It works!
22:35Everybody wins when you work together.
22:40Work together.
22:42Now, I just have to let the deer know
22:44that their wildlife corridor is open again.
22:47I don't think you need to let them know.
22:49Of course I do.
22:51They have a right to get food and water safely,
22:53just like anyone else.
22:55Look!
22:57Ha-ha!
22:58It's working!
22:59I'm bouncing,
23:01and the deer are able to cross through
23:03to get what they need.
23:04Let's celebrate with some bouncing!
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