You'd pretty much have to be a stone-hearted rock person for all the puppy howling in this video not to affect you. Maybe you're not "into dogs" the way your cousin Mallory Archer is into dogs, what with all the naked spooning portraits, but even a cat person can appreciate the first warbling notes of an tiny predator… Read… 12/08/13 3:00pm Sunday 3:00pm

This kitchen bunny is excited about...well, it's impossible to know about what for sure because bunnies don't talk. Here's what we do know: there is a bunny, said bunny's ears are floppy, there is also a cat, the cat seems to be on good terms with the bunny, and the bunny gets food for hopping merrily around the… Read… 11/24/13 4:30pm 11/24/13 4:30pm

Josh Hutcherson hosted SNL last night while his new movie, Hunger Games: Catching Fire was busy making all the money. With all that passive income just rolling straight into his pocket, Hutcherson will have more free time to devote to his true passion — telling distraught pet owners that their pets died horrible… Read… 11/24/13 1:00pm 11/24/13 1:00pm

Well, this is really fucking sad. A female lion named Johari, 5, was attacked and killed by a male lion in her enclosure at the Dallas Zoo on Sunday afternoon. Another obvious example of the patriarchy in action, said some idiot making a terrible joke (me). Read… 11/18/13 7:45pm 11/18/13 7:45pm

Well, just like the door-opening raptors in Jurassic Park, corgis have finally figured out jungle gyms. This will be our final report before we retreat into a bunker and wait out the Corgipocalypse. May God have mercy on us all. Read… 11/17/13 2:30pm 11/17/13 2:30pm

Ugh, classic sheep. No respect for the dead, AS USUAL. A flock of woolly ne'er-do-wells in the small Berkshire village of Grazeley (pUn InTeNdEd BcUz SHEEP!!) have been running wild in the town churchyard, feasting wantonly on flowers and keepsakes left by mourners. Read… 11/11/13 9:35am 11/11/13 9:35am

The most adorable job in the world is also the least rewarding job in the world: teaching panda cubs how to climb a tree. The little pandas really can't manage it, and there's no way to encourage them because they're pandas, a species immune to all forms of human encouragement. Read… 11/10/13 4:00pm 11/10/13 4:00pm

These are full color illustrations from Christina Hess' ebook Animals From History, and they're freaking gorgeous. My favorites are Bruno the Brave and Cat Queen. I'd like them both blown-up to about 6' x 4' and hang them above my bed so that each morning I may awake and receive their permission to conquer the… Read… 11/06/13 12:50pm 11/06/13 12:50pm

How can you even think about reprimanding or punishing any disobedient creature after seeing this video? Look how sorry they are! It’s heartbreaking — no pet shows contrition quite like a dog, an animal for which being made aware of a transgression is its own punishment. On the other hand, cats are remorseless… Read… 10/25/13 3:20pm 10/25/13 3:20pm

Unless you’re a ogre (and if you are, that’s completely fine, you do you), you can’t look at a lion cub without feeling that little instinctual twang to smother it with cuddles. But two lion cubs?? Rolling around, batting each other playfully?? This is the sort of irresistible propaganda dictators use to climb the… Read… 10/20/13 2:30pm 10/20/13 2:30pm

If you take a closer look at this video (which appears to feature a jaunty otter playing with some people), you'll realize that the otter is no ordinary otter — it is a scout otter, sent from the great Otterman Empire to ascertain the relative strength of human warriors. Read… 10/06/13 2:30pm 10/06/13 2:30pm

If you’re one of those smug Californians who’s always going on about fish tacos and great weather and avocados and relaxed marijuana regulations, there’s a grumpy Northeasterner getting ready to have a schadenfreude party at your expense this weekend. That’s because this weekend in California is Tarantula Bang Fest… Read… 10/05/13 1:00pm 10/05/13 1:00pm

One potential casualty of the looming (constitutionally mandated that I use the word "looming" in reference to government shutdown- Article 12, Section 6, HISTORY: LEARN IT) government shutdown isn't the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal employees or even my sanity, after having to listen to the yammering of the… Read… 9/30/13 6:40pm 9/30/13 6:40pm

This beleaguered cat mama has too many kittens to feed, and all those kittens are acting like total assholes. Maybe we shouldn’t feel too bad for her, though. She chose her choices. I mean, why didn’t she use any contraception, hmm? Does she live in Texas or something? Read… 9/29/13 4:00pm 9/29/13 4:00pm

Bet you terrestrial-centric bigots didn't realize it, but today just so happens to be Fish Amnesty Day, which is billed as "a day to recognize fish as living animals with rights and in need of protection just the same as other vertebrates.” Read… 9/28/13 5:00pm 9/28/13 5:00pm

A cursory viewing of this little instance of interspecies squee might lead you to incorrectly assume that Elephant and Dog are friends. They are not. Elephant is clearly fucking with Dog while Dog is trying to sleep, probably after a long day of work, probably because Elephant is shiftless and doesn’t have a job.… Read… 9/22/13 5:30pm 9/22/13 5:30pm

About halfway through what is already a delightful video of TWO otters lounging on a stump, one of those otters (the more gifted one, obviously) begins to juggle a rock, “juggle,” in this context, meaning of course to roll lazily across one’s fuzzy belly. Still though! Otters are alarmingly dexterous. They should… Read… 9/21/13 3:30pm 9/21/13 3:30pm

Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium is one step closer to opening in east London, which means that noncommittal animal lovers and adulterous cat owners will finally have a place where they can go work on their manuscripts and sip coffee while playing with a strange kitty. Read… 9/15/13 3:30pm 9/15/13 3:30pm

When the water wars come, we're all gonna kill and eat each other before we even think of turning on our pets. Who's a dumb dog now? Read… 9/10/13 10:40am 9/10/13 10:40am

Hedgehog and dog, dog and hedgehog — together, what can they not accomplish. They can satisfy all of your wildest desires. For example: You want to go to the Moon? Why? Dog and hedgehog are on Earth. You want a million dollars? Why? Hedgehog likes to play with toilet paper rolls, and dog likes to watch. Toilet… Read… 9/08/13 3:00pm 9/08/13 3:00pm

These baby cheetahs are unreasonably cute. They also seem to be posing for the cameras, eerily aware of how desperately a heartsick observer would want to use their fuzzy little heads as giant makeup powder puffs. Read… 9/07/13 2:00pm 9/07/13 2:00pm