Originally published at: Watch: Adorable capybara can't get enough of this scratchy massage | Boing Boing
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It’s weird how some animals seem to desire unlimited deep scratching, yet haven’t evolved to be able to do it to themselves. Like cows with those brush thingies they like, or cats who want you to scrunch their ears like tin foil indefinitely.
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We always desire and treasure those things that we can never or rarely have, scratches included. Stuff you can easily do for yourself isn’t valued.
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Shudder. Giant rat. Dinner. In that order.
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Speak for yourself.
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Yes, that makes me wonder if providing cats with ear scrunches is in some way like providing them with heroin.
Buddha (for example) teaches that to desire is to suffer, and animals are presumed to have Buddha nature; they are born with exactly the right amount of ability to scrunch their own ears, and by providing them with excessive scrunches perhaps we are only teaching them a desire that cannot be fulfilled. I must go at once to a mountain to meditate upon this.
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Aw, what a cutie!
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If only we could all access our own inner Cabybara. 
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Those teeth are… a disturbingly lot of tooth.
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OMG that sound. Like water going down a drain.
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Maybe it is a grooming activity in their groups.
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1st, I 
capybaras. Second, this one (and my cat) really likes skritches under the chin, which is a difficult place to reach for the animal. Third, mom cats and, I assume, momcapybaras, groom their young ones, which feels good, it still feels good when we humans simulate it. That is all.
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Well, capys are rodents. 
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That will escalate
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The Finnish word for rodent is “jyrsijä”, literally “gnawer”. It fits them quite well.
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My neighbourhood’s cats keep the foxes away.
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Those are truly I.O.U.S. (incisors of unusual size).
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