That's me, Fred the house cat.

When my family leaves for the day, I don't just sit inside watching the world go by.

I become... ♪ Nature Cat, backyard explorer extraordinaire!

♪ Oh, go go go ♪ Tally ho!

♪ Go go go ♪ Tally ho!

♪ We're climbing up the trees now ♪ ♪ We're swinging through the breeze now ♪ ♪ We're getting muddy knees now ♪ ♪ With Nature Cat ♪ ♪ Nature Cat, Nature Cat ♪ ♪ Nature Cat, Nature Cat, Nature Cat ♪ ♪ So what are we waiting for?

♪ ♪ We're so excited to explore ♪ ♪ All that nature has in store with Nature Cat ♪ ♪ Go go go Tally ho!

♪ Go go go Tally ho!

♪ He's our favorite nature guide ♪ ♪ We just can't wait to get ♪ Outside!

♪ We're swinging through the trees now ♪ ♪ We're jumping in the leaves now ♪ ♪ We're getting muddy knees now ♪ With Nature Cat!

♪ Nature Cat, Nature Cat Tally ho!

♪ Nature Cat, Nature Cat, Nature Cat ♪ Tally ho!

Daisy: The Big Bath Brouhaha.

Daisy: Okay, you guys, I want this picture to be perfect for Granny Bunny's birthday, so I need everyone to look their spiffiest!

Who's ready to make some magic?

Squeeks/Nature Cat: We are!

Nature Cat: Fear not, Daisy, I shall place everyone in the perfect pose.

Nature Cat: Arm up here!

Leg right there!

You, balance on one toe.

One ear up, and this one down...

Nature Cat: Perfect!

Squeeks: Can we get this show on the road, this pose is kinda hard to hold.

Daisy: Oh right!

Of course!

Let's make some magic.

Squeeks: Everybody say cheese!

Squeeks/Daisy: Cheee-- Nature Cat: WAAAAAIT!

Daisy: What's wrong?

Nature Cat: Hal!

We're missing Hal!

Gang: Hal!

-Where are you, Hal?!

-Come on out, Hal!

Hal: Ta-dee!

Here I am, baby!

Daisy: Come on, Hal!

It's time to take a picture!

Hal: Ooh!

Picture Day!

Daisy: Sweet!

Let me just reset my camera!

Nature Cat: Whoa!

What is that smell?

Squeeks: Ah!

Ha!

I think it's coming from Hal.

Squeeks: Oh, Hal, you smell pretty ripe!

Nature Cat: What did you do to get so dirty and stinky, Hal, my pal?

Hal: I dunno.

I was just in the woods, rolling around.

Just rolling and rolling and rolling around!

Squeeks: You must have rolled and rolled in something pretty smelly!

Daisy: Here we go!

Let's make some magic!

Take two!

Say Cheese!

Gang: Cheee.... Nature/Daisy/Squeeks: Uhh...EWWWWWW!

Squeeks: Oh no!

We can't give Granny Bunny a picture that looks like this.

Hal: You're right!

I blinked!

I look awful.

Come on, let's take another one.

Nature Cat: Eep, uh Hal, if we're going to take this picture for Granny Bunny, I am going to need you to do something very important!

Okay?

Hal: Anything, Nature Cat!

Whatever you need to get this picture taken for Granny Bunny, I will do it!

Hal: A bath!

No!

Nope.

I will not do it.

Nope not gonna happen.

Anything but that!

Daisy: Oh, Hal.

A photograph captures a moment in time for all eternity, don't you want to look your best for all eternity?

Hal: Not if it means me getting in a bath!

(sound effect) Ewe!

Squeeks: But you need to get clean, man!

You stink!

Hal: These are my natural musks!

Hal: Ooh boy!

Musky!

Nature Cat: Come on, friend, you need a bath!

Hal: Oh no!

I do not do baths!

Let go of me!

Daisy: Come on, Hal!

Squeeks: Wrong way, Hal!

Squeeks: The bath is this way!

Hal: I'm going that way!

Hal: Phew.

Nature Cat: When you do a roll, you gotta pay the toll, Hal!

You need to get clean!

Nature Cat: Hrr!

Hrr!

Woaah!

Nature Cat: Aww!

Now I'm wet!

With water!

Drat!

Squeeks: Hal.

You gotta get in the bath.

Oh I can't breathe.

Please, you have to fix this.

If not for me, then do it for yourself!

Hal: I'm sorry!

I can't do it!

Not even for Granny Bunny!

I'll never take a bath!

Daisy: Halbert Alexander the Dog!

You come back here this instant!

Nature Cat: Onward and...

Nature Cat: ...Halward!

Daisy: Whaaaaat?!

Nature Cat: Hal, come on!

You have to take a bath!

Hal: Bawk-bawk!

I don't know this Hal: you speak of.

I mean there's no one here but us chickens, bawk-bawk!

Hal: And everyone knows chickens do not take baths, bawk-bawk-bawk, See we chickens don't take baths bawk-bawk-bawk, we make ourselves dirtier by covering ourselves in dust, bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk!

I'm a chicken!

Daisy: I don't think the chickens are just making themselves dirty.

Hal: Bawk, oh yeah, that's what we chickens do, bawk-bawk-bawk!

Love this dirt!

Nature Cat: What are these chickens doing?

Squeeks: Yeah!

Why are they covering themselves in dust?

Chickens.

Daisy: Hmm.

Don't know.

Let's observe and maybe we can figure it out.

Nature Cat: Woaah!!

Chicken: bawk-bawk!

Nature Cat: They're digging in the earth and sitting in it.

Squeeks: Okay now they're twitching and squirming in the dirt.

I can't makes heads or tails of this.

Hal: We love to be dirty, bawk-bawk!

Daisy: Now they're kicking dust on themselves!

Whaaat?

Hal: We love to be dusty too!

Bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk!

Nature Cat: Ha!

And now they're shaking the dust off.

Squeeks: Maybe Hal is right, maybe they do like to get dirty!

Chickens... Hal: Of course I'm right!

I'm a chicken!

Bawk-bawk-bawk-bawka!

Daisy: Wait a minute you guys, the chickens aren't using the dust to get dirty, they're using it to get clean!

Hal: Say what now, bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk!?

Daisy: The chickens use the dust to clean their feathers, absorb moisture and get rid of tiny bugs called mites.

It's called a dust bath!

Hal: A dust bath?!

Bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk!

Squeeks: Dust bath?

I don't know...those two words don't go together.

Daisy: Yes!

And lots of animals take dust baths.

Look!

Daisy: Elephants, bison, and other birds all take dust baths!

Hal: That's too many baths!

I'm out of here!

Bawk-bawk-bawka!

Nature Cat: Hal, come back!

You need a bath so we can take the picture!

♪ Hal: Oink!

Oink!

Nature Cat: Hal, bud, what are you doing now?

Hal: Hal, oink-oink?

I'm not Hal, Oink.

I'm a pig!

Squeal!

And pigs definitely do not take baths!

Soo-ey!

Daisy: Um.

I don't think that's true.

Hal: See oink oink!

We pings don't bathe We wallow in mud to make ourselves even dirtier.

Soo-ey!

Squeeks Whoa!

Ick!

Pigs really do like to be dirty.

Daisy: I don't think pigs wallow in mud just to get dirty.

Nature Cat: Then why do pigs wallow in mud?

Daisy: I'm not sure.

But let's figure it out.

Squeeks: It looks like these pigs are feeling hot.

Nature Cat: Ahhhh!

But when they wallow in the mud it seems to cool them down.

Hal: This mud is cool!

Cool and dirty!

Daisy: I wonder if pigs use mud like the chickens use dust.

Nature Cat: You mean to take a bath?

Hal: No way!

Pigs do not take baths, oink-oink-oink!

Daisy: I beg to differ!

It says here that pigs like to take mud baths!

Squeeks: Mud baths?!

Really?

Is this opposite day?

Hal: No way!

A mud bath is definitely not a thing!

Oink-oink-oink!

Cause pigs don't take baths!

Oink-oink!

Daisy: Oh that's not true, Hal.

It says here that pigs take mud baths to stay cool, protect their skin from the sun and to keep germs off their bodies so they can stay healthy!

Hal: Really, oink?

Daisy: Absolutely!

And other animals take mud baths too!

Daisy: Hippos, rhinos and water buffalos all like to bathe in the mud too!

Hal: Argh!

More baths!

Brrrr!!

Soo-eey!

Nature Cat: Come on, Hal, just take a bath!

Daisy: Yeah!

We need that picture for Granny!

Nature Cat: Halward Alexander, come down from that tree and take a bath this instant!

Please!

Hal: Sorry, I don't know any Hal: (Sound effect) Daisy: Uh, Hal, bat's don't make that sound.

Hal: Oh, I'm not Hal!

I'm a bat!

Bat sound, bat sound.

Nature Cat: Uh, buddy.

You're just saying "bat sound".

Hal: Well, although I am a bat, I do not seem to know what sound a bat makes.

(squeek) Squeeks: Sounds like they squeak.

Hal: Oh!

Then I am a bat!

Squeak!

Squeak!

Squeak!

And we bats do not take baths!

Squeak!

Squeak!

Daisy: It seems all animals take baths, Hal!

Hal: No they don't!

Squeak!

Squeak!

Squeak!

Wait I'm sorry, do they?

Daisy: Oh yes they do!

Listen Hal... Daisy: (Clears throat) ♪ We're all covered up in ♪ ♪ skin, scales, fur and feathers , ♪ ♪ yes it's true, Ooh!

Ooh!

♪ Daisy: ♪ If we want to keep our insides healthy, ♪ ♪ This is what we'll do, Ooh!

Ooh!

♪ ♪ The chickens, bats, pigs and all the animals between ♪ Daisy: ♪ We all take some kind of bath, ♪ ♪ To keep healthy and clean.

♪ Daisy: ♪ Gotta take a bath!

♪ ♪ NC/Squeeks: ♪ Bath!

Bath!

♪ Daisy: ♪ Just take a bath!

♪ NC/Squeeks: ♪ Bath!

Bath!

♪ NC/Daisy?Squeeks: ♪ Get your dirty self, ♪ ♪ On the clean clean path!

♪ ♪ And take a bath!

♪ Daisy: ♪ Scrub!

Scrub!

♪ Daisy: ♪ To keep their bodies working well, ♪ ♪ go tell your son and daughter!

♪ ♪ Some animals, they take a bath, ♪ ♪ they take a bath with water.

A water bath!

♪ NC/Squeeks: ♪ Bath!

Bath!

♪ Daisy: ♪ A water bath!

♪ NC/Squeeks: ♪ Bath!

Bath!

♪ Squeeks: ♪ Don't want to feel a germ's wrath, ♪ ♪ So go and take a bath!

♪ Daisy: ♪ When mites and pests get on your skin, ♪ ♪ This becomes a must, ♪ ♪ Some animals they take a bath, ♪ ♪ they use mud and then dust.

♪ ♪ Mud bath!

♪ ♪ NC/Squeeks: ♪ Bath!

Bath!

♪ Daisy: ♪ Or dust bath!

♪ ♪ NC: ♪ Bath!

Bath!

♪ Daisy/NC/Squeeks: ♪ It all adds up, just do the ♪ ♪ math!

And take a bath!

♪ Hal: Okay, okay, some animals may take a bath, but we bats do not use water or mud or dust to take a bath!

Squeak!

Squeak!

Daisy: Oh!

That's true!

They use something else!

Hal: We do?

Squeak!

Squeak!

What do we use?

Daisy: Observe!

♪ Hal: Whoa!

The bats are licking their thumbs and cleaning off their fur.

Nature Cat: Looks like they're taking a tongue bath!

Squeeks: Uhh, forgive me.

A tongue bath?!

Uhhh.....I don't know.

I don't know anymore.

Hal: Wait a minute!

Sometimes I clean off my fur with my tongue!

Nature Cat: So do I!

Squeeks: Huh.

Me too!

Okay.

I was wrong about tongue baths.

Daisy: Guilty as charged!

Hal: And that's considered a bath?

Daisy: Like I said, it's a tongue bath!

It keeps your fur and skin clean and helps keep you healthy!

Ba-bam!

Hal: Well why didn't you just say so?

I love to take a tongue bath!

Hal: (Sluurp!)

♪ Hal: Baths keep icky, yucky germs away, ♪ ♪ so tell the old and young, ♪ ♪ Some animals they take a bath, a bath using their tongue.

♪ ♪ A tongue bath!

♪ ♪ ♪ Hal/Squeeks NC: Bath!

Bath!

♪ ♪ Hal: A tongue bath!

♪ ♪ ♪ Daisy/Squeeks/Hal: Bath!

Bath!

♪ ♪ Gang: Get your stinky self on the clean clean path, ♪ ♪ and take a bath!

♪ Gang: ♪ A healthy bath!

♪ Hal: (Slurrp) Nature Cat: Now that's what I call a tongue bath, Hal my pal!

Hal: Thanks, I feel clean and healthy and all at the same time!

Daisy: Now we are finally ready to make some magic.

Squeeks: Say bath!

All: Bath!

Granny Bunny: Awe.

What a sweet birthday portrait!

Everyone looks so nice!

Hal: And clean!

Don't we all look clean, Granny Bunny?

Granny Bunny: Very clean, Halbert Alexander!

Thank you!

Hal: Now, let's celebrate!

Daisy: Halbert Alexander!

You're a mess again!

Hal: Don't worry, Daisy, I brought my tongue, just in case I need a bath!

(Sluuurp) Mmmh hmmm... Daisy: Fossil hunt.

Squeeks: Fossil, fossil, I need to find a fossil!

Okay, fossil.

Come to mama!

Come to mama!

Gotta find a fossil.

Squeeks: (Gasps) Could it be?

Could it be...?

No.

Squeeks: YES!

YES!

Squeeks: I found a fossil!

I found a fossil!

Fossil!!!!

Hal: Oh hey, Squeeks!

You found my bone, baby!

Squeeks: I beg to differ, big dog.

It's a fossil not a bone.

And I found it!

And I'm a paleontologist!

Hal: Squeeks!

It's a bone and I buried it!

Squeeks: It's a fossil and it comes from the past!

Hal: It's a bone and I'm going to eat it tomorrow!

Or today!

Or now!

Squeeks: Fossil!

Hal: Bone!

Squeeks: Fossil!

Hal: Bone!

Squeeks: Fossil!

Hal: Bone!

(Boing Boing Boing) (Clunk) Nature Cat: What on earth is this?

Friends?

Hal: Bone!

Squeeks: Fossil!

Nature Cat: Yipes!

NC/Hal/Squeeks: Wooah Woah woah!

Daisy: Huh?

Uh oh!

Woah!

Gang: Ughh/ Oh no.

Daisy: Huh, thanks for dropping in, guys!

Although I would appreciate a little heads up next time.

Nature Cat: This belong to someone?

Squeeks: It's my fossil!

Hal: No it's my bone!

Nature Cat: Oh, how about it being both your fossil and your bone?

Problem solved, nap time!

Daisy: Whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Time out!

It can't be a fossil AND Hal's bone.

Don't you remember in episode 105 B Daisy's Colossal Fossil?

Um, can we roll a clip please?

Narrator: You see, fossils are stone-like remains of a plant or animal that lived thousands or even millions of years ago.

Wow, that's a long time.

Dinosaur: Rawr!

Narrator: Fossils are formed when natural things like animals and plants are buried under layers of sand and mud.

How about that?!

Daisy: Oh, Thank you!

Hal: Well, I buried it last week.

Nature Cat: Uh, Hal.

That's not a long, long, long, time ago.

Daisy: Agreed.

And I can confirm that... ...that is a bone!

Ba-bam!

Squeeks: Daisy, Come on!

How do you know?

Daisy: Huh, I saw Hal bury it.

Squeeks: Ohhh rats!

Nature Cat: A bone it is.

Hal: Hi Bone, it's me Hal, I missed you so much when I buried you last week!

Mmmwah!

Squeeks: No!

My fossil!

Nature Cat: Hey, why so sad, Squeeks?

It's just a bone.

Squeeks: (Sigh) I know, but I need to find a fossil so I can earn my mousy scouts fossil badge later tonight.

Hal: Mousy Scouts?

Squeeks: Mousy scouts pledge to be honest and fair, courageous, kind, polite, show others we care!

Mousy Scouts!

Hal: I didn't know.

Here, you can definitely have it.

Squeeks: Aww thank you, Hal, but it won't count.

It looks like a fossil.

But I need a real fossil.

Ugh, They're sticklers over there.

Squeeks: See?

Look.

I already have badges for camping and woodworking, rock collecting, hiking and now I'm up for my fossil badge.

Daisy: Don't worry your cute little head, Squeeks.

We'll help you find one.

Squeeks: But I have to find it before the meeting tonight!

Nature Cat: Then we must shake a leg!

Onward and let's-find -a-fossil-ward!

Squeeks: Wait!

If we're gonna be real fossil hunters, we'd better prepare!

Squeeks: Okay!

Since I've got some super helpers now, that's you, I know a great place to go to look for fossils, but we're gonna need some things first... Squeeks: Alrighty!

We got a rock pick!

All: Check!

Squeeks: A hammer!

All: Check!

Squeeks: Magnifying glass!

All: Check!

Squeeks: We are now all set to look for sea fossils!

Hal: Um...where exactly might we find sea fossils?

Squeeks: A place that was covered by a sea a long time ago!

Nature Cat: To that place!

Uh, where exactly is this place that was once covered by a sea a long time ago?

Squeeks: That a way!

Nature Cat: Tally hooooo!

Squeeks: "Sea fossils are often found in sedimentary rocks... "...which are formed when dirt and dead plants and animals sink to the bottom of the sea and get covered over.

Takes millions of years!"

Hal: Millions of years!

Whoa!

I hope it doesn't take us that long to find the sea fossil place!?

Daisy: Oh, don't worry, Hal, I think we're almost there.

Nature Cat: Agreed.

According to the map, the lake that used to be an ancient sea should be right about whoaaaaaa...!

Ha ha!!

Nature Cat: Mother!

OOOOOOOaaaaaaaaaaa...!

Gang: Nature Cat!

Nature Cat: Woooahhh!

Nature Cat: Oh, no!

It's water!

(Splash) Nature Cat: Pfft!

Peyuck!

Pleeck!

Fish: I know, I know.

Water, why'd it have to be water, right?

Nature Cat: Mm hm hm.

Quite.

Nature Cat: ...We're here!

Hal/Squeeks/Daisy: Woohoo!

Woohoo!

Oh yeah!

Squeeks: Okay look for the larger, flat pieces first, like these... Squeeks: See if there's a pattern of a shell or a plant on it.

Hal: Nothin'.

Hal: Nothin'.

Oop?

Nope, nothin'.

Squeeks: Hey Hal, be careful, okay, big dog.

Don't wanna go tossing rocks all over the place.

Hal: But they're just rocks.

Squeeks: Yeah, but don't want to hurt or break anything around here.

Hal: Oh, okay.

Hal: Sorry, rock.

I didn't mean to toss you.

(Mwah) I'm Hal, by the way.

Nice to meet you.

Squeeks: Daisy, my friend, don't be in such a hurry, you'll forget where you already looked.

You don't want to go over the same area twice.

Daisy: Copy that, Squeeks!

♪ Nature Cat: I found one!

I found a fossil!

Daisy/Squeeks/Hal: Oh!!

Let's see!

Let's see!

Squeeks: Whoa!

Whoa!

Careful!

Careful!

You gotta gently pry off the top layer!

You don't want to damage the fossil.

(tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap) Squeeks: Hmmm... Hal: Well?

What?

What?

What?

Is it a fossil?

Squeeks: (Sigh) No.

It's not a fossil.

It's just a different kind of rock inside the rock.

Daisy: Perk up, Squeeks, my sweet little mouse!

The sun is still shining, and it's not time for your meeting yet, we can keep looking.

Nature Cat: We can!

A Mousy Scout never gives up!

Aye-what, Squeeks?

Squeeks: Right!

Let's dig!

Daisy: This fossil finding montage could sure use some music.

Cue track 17 please.

Start 34 seconds in if you can.

(Music playing in the back) ♪ Singers: Oh fossil!

♪ Squeeks: No... ♪ No... ♪ Clam: No!

♪ Daisy: Huh?

♪ Squeeks: Uh uh.

♪ Hal: Mwah!

♪ Mwah!

♪ Mwah!

♪ ♪ Oh fossil!

Fossil!

♪ ♪ Can you dig it?!

♪ ♪ Can you dig it?!

♪ ♪ Oh fossil!

Fossil!

♪ Can you dig it?!

♪ ♪ Oh Fossil!

Can you, can you dig it?!

♪ ♪ Oh Fossil!

Can you dig it?!

♪ Squeeks: Fossil?

♪ Ugh.

♪ Can you dig it?!

Oh Fossil!

♪ ♪ Can you dig it?!

Oh Fossil!

♪ ♪ Can you dig it?!

♪ ♪ ♪ Oh Fossil!

♪ Squeeks: Fossil?!

No.

Fossil?!

No.

Fossil?!

(Gasps) No.

(Sigh) Nature Cat: Hey, Squeeks, I think we've gotta call it a day.

It's getting dark.

Squeeks: Oh, man.

I guess I won't get my fossil badge after all tonight.

Daisy: Well we tried, Squeeks.

We looked really, really, really hard to find a fossil.

Hal: And I learned how to stack rocks.

Tahdee!

Nature Cat: Really nice work, Hal!

Daisy: Yeah but you should probably put those rocks back the way they were when you found them.

Remember!

Leave nothing, take nothing.

Ba-bam!

Squeeks: (Sigh) Squeeks: Thank you so much, for helping, you guys.

Squeeks: Okay, so I didn't get a fossil badge.

No biggie.

I could go for a different badge.

I um...

I could go for a cheese-eating badge.

I'm good at eating cheese.

I could do that...but... it's not the same.

Nature Cat: I wish we could have found a fossil for Squeeks.

Daisy: Well maybe we can come back tomorrow?

Hal: Yeah.

I mean, there's a lot a more rocks to stack.

Heh.

Like this one.

I must have missed it.

I didn't even see that one.

Nature Cat: Hal!

Let me see that!

(Gasps) Nature Cat: Could it be?

Could it really be?

Daisy: What is it?!

Nature Cat: Squeeks, wait!

Hey... NC/Hal/Daisy: ...SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEKS!

Squeeks: Ahh!!

Woah oh!

Squeeks: You rang?

Nature Cat: Ahh.

Ughh!!!

Is this a fossil?

Squeeks: Yes!

It's a fossil!

All: Ha-whoo!!

Daisy: Found it!

Your fossil is called a Trilobite!

Hal: A Trilobite!

Oh, boy, a real Trilobite!

I can't believe we found a Trilobite!

Oh ho ho ho ho!

What is a Trilobite?

Daisy: "Trilobites lived in the ocean more than 300 million years ago."

Nature Cat: Whoa-ho-ho-ho, that's a long time ago!

Daisy: So instead of a lake, there was an ancient ocean here!

Gimme some whaaat?

Squeeks: This is like totally blowing my mind, man!

Hal: Totally what she said, man!

Daisy: Man-oh-man, listen to this... "Trilobites liked to eat smaller plants and animals that lived in the ocean back then.

And there are none alive now!"

Nature Cat: Well, Squeeks, it looks like you're going to get your fossil badge after all!

Low five!

Squeeks: FOSSIL!

Hal: For the record, this bone is for next Friday, no wait next Thursday, okay, wait, no, next Tuesday, do I hear Monday, next Monday, maybe?

Nature Cat: Understood, Hal.

We've got your back.

Daisy: And your bone!

Squeeks: Yeah!

I got it!

You guys I got it!

My new fossil badge!

NC/Hal/Daisy: Awesome!

Cool!

Singers: ♪ Oh fossil!

Fossil!

♪ ♪ Can you dig it?!

♪ ♪ Oh fossil!

Fossil!

♪ ♪ Can you dig it?

♪ ♪ Oh fossil!

Fossil!

♪ ♪ Can you dig it?!

♪ ♪ ♪ Oh fossil!

Fossil!

Fossil!...

♪ (theme song) ♪