All ye pet owners searching for that offbeat pet to help you prove to strangers that you aren't some cat or dog yuppie piece of human garbage but a unique individual with FEELS and THOUGHTS — the hedgehog is officially mainstream. That's not a terrible thing, considering that hedgehogs are super cute, relatively easy…
A mixed-breed dog named Emma is competing at the prestigious Westminster dog show today after being rescued from a kill shelter in South Carolina just hours before she was scheduled to be put down and OH MY GOD LOOK AT HER FACE AM I CRYING YES I AM CRYING.
Theoretically, squirrels are cute and it'd be delightful to have a trained squirrel bustling around one's home, piling up nuts and candybars in a cool, dry little corner. Then again, squirrels seem like busybodies, don't they? They're always bustling and storing, finding new places to stuff what they think is treasure …
The Westminster Dog Show, a 138-year-old institution dedicated to preserving the once functional deformities produced by humanity's ancient breeding experiments with gray wolves, broke tradition last night and let, for the first time in a century, mixed breed dogs compete next to their purebred counterparts. The…
There will have been 10 — TEN — puppy bowls on Animal Planet after this year's Puppy Bowl X, a spectacle of unabashed puppy objectification, is in the books. Last year's Puppy Bowl attracted 12.4 million viewers, and proved itself to be a reliable alternative televised event for people who don't want to watch the Super …
Here's a Golden Retriever puppy being driven completely mad with excitement over TV footage of the 2014 Australian Open. If you're wondering if watching a dog watch something for two minutes will get boring, the answer is a resounding NO.
Last night, in honor of this Sunday's Big Game (Puppy Bowl, duh), Conan introduced his audience to this year's cast of Puppy Conan, an all-puppy version of his late night show. Puppy Conan's guests included Puppy Pharrell, Puppy Justin Bieber and crew (complete with puppy-sized luxury rental car), and Puppy Toronto…
Marijuana poisoning in pets is on the rise, according to the Animal Poison Control Center, which reports that calls regarding pot pet poisonings have increased 30 percent since 2009.
It's hard to open up a laptop these days without running into the wildly popular and perplexingly hilarious Doge meme. Such style, many fashun, says text in multicolored comic sans over the image of a dignified, adorable looking fox-dog with an intelligent face. But is the Shiba Doge's ubiquity translating to increased …
In case you had any doubt about the impending war with our cat overlords, this picture should finally convince you that yes, we are in fact doomed.
Watching cats get squirmy and glassy-eyed when they're "on the nip," as the kittens say, is weird
People dress their pets up. It's weird and sort of barbaric if you think about it for too long, but it's just a thing people do because people are just overdeveloped primates, so vain about their thumbs and brains that they can't help making fun of other creatures for their not knowing how to use tools well enough to…
If Isaac Newton had kittens (and I'm not saying he did, because, for all I know, Isaac Newton was an iguana person), you can bet they wouldn't have been interested in physics or calculus. They would have wanted to move to Italy and become painters or layabouts in spite of Catdaddy Isaac Newton's strenuous efforts to…
Recently, internet cat sensation Lil Bub made his comedy debut on the hallowed stage of Chicago's Second City, a legendary comedy theater that has served as proving ground to countless future giants of comedy. I'm sorry to inform but Lil Bub is not among them. Turns out, Lil Bub fucking sucks at improv.
Some cats are bush dwellers. Other cats are tree dwellers. This cat wants to be a tree dweller, but is clearly a poseur whose insatiable self-consciousness has ruined Christmas. Way to go, cat. Every time a Christmas tree gets knocked over, one of Santa's elves shoots itself.
The obsequious dog — humankind's most faithful interspecies ally and least likely of all the intelligent mammals to rise up and challenge our hegemony. We assume that our dogs are really into pleasing us, but we may have underestimated just how into it they are. According to a new study about dog behavior, dogs aren't…
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…
Japanese researchers have tested whether or not cats recognize their owners' voices. The good news: they can. The bad news: they're probably going to ignore it.
According to some new feline research from the UK, your cat may soon have yet another very good reason to flash you that glare of utter contempt. All your sharp, staccato noises — pen clicking, fingernail biting, cutlery dropping, and mouse clicking — may trigger cat seizures, a condition researchers are somehow…
Photographer Sarah Ernhart has a gift for capturing moments between people and their pets — especially people and their pets who won't be around much longer. She calls them "Joy sessions" and her gorgeous pictures will make you both smile and sniffle.
