
And even Iago knows that’s wishful thinking at best.

Random headcanon: I think Aladdin thinks rats are cute, and very smart. (And they can be. I’ve found personally that domesticated rats are very snuggly.) He probably knows everything he does about them because he’s observed and played with them when they were tame enough to come up to him and let him interact with them.
But no. He doesn’t recognize Jasmine.

“Walk on your own feet.”
The tossing part, aside, I really like his gentle hand with smaller animals, here. The line is just really cute and the sort of thing you’d expect an animal lover to say when a rat just randomly saunters up and sits down on your foot.