How did I use a series of tools to approach animals both physically and digitally - I called my friends’ cats at Zoom; I attempted to get a cat’s vision in order to understand them better, I enriched my vulnerable hand with a mannequin to feed squirrels; I placed motion capture cameras and food on the ground to shoot animals frames with no distance and transferred these video clips to fit in a cardboard VR device. Through these experiments, did I really get closer to animals? It was the artificial objects that touched animals but not me. Do I really love animals or do I just want them to love me? How might technology be used to effectively mediate interspecies interactions?