In living out this crazy human condition of ours, a great deal can be gained by learning to find beauty in the things we don't understand. I don't understand Christmas Cats TV, but I do know that it is beautiful.
This Business Week story about what's happening to your Thanksgiving turkey right now is a depressing-as-hell must read. The industrial meat complex is complicated, but one thing is for sure: factory farming is fucking terrible for everyone, Butterball is hella shady, and free-range has its own problems. But perhaps…
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…
Josh Hutcherson hosted SNL last night while his new movie, Hunger Games: Catching Fire was busy making all the money
We've shown you some strange photos of intelligent animals
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).
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.
Despite all the squee propaganda on the Internet (fun fact: the Internet is run by a cabal of savage predators with the secret purpose of convincing the huge contingent of potential prey items, i.e. humans, to believe that baby predators are cute and harmless), wildcats are dangerous
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…
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…
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…
Finally, two of my saddest interests combined into one sad, sad product: cat wine.
When measuring the true dimensions of the current GOP’s monstrousness, we can’t just consider how House Republicans’ tantrum-throwing government shutdown affects the human Americans
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…
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…
Dolphins are smart
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.”
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.…
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…
It’s probably best not to take PETA’s outrage too, too seriously (I mean, it’s not like they’re going to throw paint all over your decadent fur coat or anything), but a spokeswoman for the animal rights organization has criticized Katy Perry for exploiting exotic animals in her new video for the single “Roar.”
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.
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?
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…
When it comes to comfort and rehabilitation, llamas aren't the first animals I think of. Warm puppies, soft bunnies, and spitting llamas? Well, apparently I was several shades of wrong because therapy llamas are here, they're awesome, they're wonderful, so don't fuck with them. Or they'll spit on you.
During the act of sexual intercourse and all the various steps leading up to it, it's important to make sure that you and your partner(s) are on the same page, lest the experience go to shambles. This is a sentence I wish I could say to Tian Tian and Mei Xiang, panda residents of the National Zoo, who have missed the …
