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Watch These Cats Battling Vacuum Cleaners — Daily Distraction

Daily Distraction — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:00:30 +0000

[onescreen item="5076235"] Cats have many enemies—dogs are the obvious one, but they have several other rivalries as well. Among machines, nothing quite matches the enmity cats have for vacuum cleaners. Internet users know felines’ antipathy for printers, but any cat owner knows how his or her pet reacts when the sound of that monstrous cleaning [...]

Watch These Animals Who Love Playing in Sprinklers — Daily Distraction

Daily Distraction — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:00:47 +0000

[onescreen item="5074995"] Anyone who’s seen their dog try to drink all the water shooting out of a sprinkler knows just how mesmerizing some animals find those machines. We don’t blame them. One of the great joys of being a kid in the summertime is running through sprinklers. And there are so many different ways to [...]

Deer Goes Bananas After Crashing Into a Bus

Kyle Dowling — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:53:18 +0000

See? Deer really do come out of nowhere! Recently, a public transit driver in western Pennsylvania had an unexpected passenger board the vehicle. The above video shows a deer crashing through the windshield of a public bus and then proceeding to freak out beyond belief. We’re not sure if that’s because of the confined space, [...]

Watch These Dogs Walking and Talking in Their Sleep — Daily Distraction

Daily Distraction — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:00:32 +0000

[onescreen item="5073247"] While we can’t know for sure whether dogs really dream—we’ve asked ours a hundred times, can’t get a clear answer—it’s hard to reach any other conclusion after watching these pooches. There’s the barking, the mumbling and, of course, the lying-on-their-side running which, in at least one case, leads to the dog actually getting [...]

Watch These Animals Poking Their Heads Inside Cars — Daily Distraction

Daily Distraction — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:00:52 +0000

[onescreen item="5071968"] It can be hard to get an accurate idea of just how big, say, a giraffe actually is. Then one sticks its head in through your car window and you have a very, very clear idea. Giraffe heads are HUGE. Like, take-up-the-entire-front-seat huge. As are camel heads. In fact, if you happen to find [...]

11 Perfectly-Timed Animal Photos

Cameron Simcik — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:40:34 +0000

Achieving a perfectly-timed picture is tricky stuff, because it doesn’t usually happen on purpose. But when these photos are done right, the result is Web G-O-L-D. We already know animals partake in entertaining shenanigans, but capturing it at the right moment doesn’t usually happen. Well guess what– we’ve found those select few pictures that were [...]

Goat Thinks It's A Chicken [VIDEO]

Chris Reed — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:09:09 +0000

Here we go again, we can’t stop watching another video of a goat making strange sounds. In recent months, we have fallen in love with videos of goats making bizarre sounds, well in this video listen to the goat make sounds like a chicken!! If there is anything that can put a smile on your [...]

How Animals (Sort of) Eat Their Food

Emerald Catron — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:33:54 +0000

You should probably watch this video. Especially if you need something absurd to turn your day around. This is about as ridiculous as it gets. It’s a man doing his impressions of how different animals eat their food. Really none of them are particularly accurate (we don’t recall ever seeing a bull just slam his [...]

Man Buys Poodles, Discovers They're Actually Ferrets on Steroids

Emerald Catron — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:40:40 +0000

This is not a joke. A man at the largest outdoor bazaar in Buenos Aires bought two toy poodles from a vendor for $150 each. Only he didn't actually buy two poodles. He actually bought two ferrets that were hopped up on steroids and given fancy hairdos so they would look like poodles.

Food Stamps For Pets Is Now Being Offered To Low Income Families [VIDEO]

Chris Reed — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:54:27 +0000

A new program for low-income families is offering ‘food stamps‘ for pets, but it’s not a program from the federal government. Pet Food Stamps, which is a non-profit organization out of New York, offers financial assistance to U.S. pet owners who are going through tough financial times. If a family that own pets is having [...]

Man Gets Dog Back — 10 Years After Giving It Up

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:28:41 +0000

Man’s best friend is still man’s best, even after a decade apart. A New Hampshire man named Jamie Carpentier recently got his dog, Ginger, back, 10 years after he had to give up the pooch. Carpentier had lost Ginger to his ex-wife in their divorce, but she ended up giving the animal away herself some [...]

Lonely? Here's How to Really Wallow in Valentine's Day Misery

Emerald Catron — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:40:57 +0000

Being sad, alone and pathetic is sort of a specialty of mine. To give you an idea, I've definitely been humiliated by an airbrush artist at an amusement park, which I was visiting without any friends. So when it comes to Valentine's Day, I've basically mastered the art of being totally miserable. Feel free to join me, but it's going to be a pretty rough night. Let's get started, shall we?

Dog With Human Face Available for Adoption

Emerald Catron — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:35:20 +0000

If you’re looking for a pet, but want something that your friends might find slightly disturbing, put down that ferret catalog, because this is the animal for you! Tonik is a Poodle/Shih Tzu mix who somehow got the face of a person. Look at his face. It’s like you simultaneously want to give him a [...]

Watch This Cat Go Crazy For Snow [VIDEO]

Kyle Dowling — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:20:11 +0000

Usually by mid-January we’re all sick of snow, but it’s magically fun again after seeing it through the eyes of a critter who’s never set foot in snow before. This video features Fletcher — a feline from the UK — being confused and befuddled not only by the snow on the ground, but also by the falling flakes, [...]

Fish Nearly Swallows Man's Arm In Intense Footage [VIDEO]

Kyle Dowling — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:06:12 +0000

If there’s one thing you should learn from this video, it’s that you should never taunt a fish. In other words, don’t be this guy. The video — which shows a mutant-sized fish nearly engulfing a man’s arm — proves that maybe fishing isn’t as utterly boring as we initially thought. If all fishing trips [...]

Just a Dog Driving a Power Wheels, NBD

Emerald Catron — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:55:09 +0000

Holy cow, it's a dog that can drive! Sort of. Granted, we've seen dogs driving actual cars before, but this one is an enormous dog in a tiny Power Wheels. Plus he has no idea how to steer. The technical skill may not be as impressive as those w

Pet Alligator Guards Marijuana Stash

Speedy — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:29:45 +0000

Is it me or has Marijuana been in the news a lot lately? Take notes Justin Bieber, this will ensure you that no one will take pics of you smoking the sticky icky. Get a pet gator to guard your stash. According to ABC, police in Castro Valley conducted a probation check on 32-year-old Assif [...]

12 Awesome Dogs with Human Eyebrows

Cameron Simcik — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:20:42 +0000

One of the best things about our pets (and animals in general) is that they have zero insight as to how cute and hilarious they actually are. They're adorably compliant too, like when we feel like dressing up cats in couture clothes or puppies in 'Star Wars' costumes. It's just what embarrassing pet owners do. If you're a fellow fan of said shenanigans, we have some fantastic news-- doggy eyebrows are now a thing.

The Best Old Money Dog Memes

Emerald Catron — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:22:48 +0000

Old Money Dog took off about two weeks ago on Reddit, providing an opportunity to make jokes about how rich animals are still animals for people who prefer dogs to the Aristoca t. In simple words, there are a lot of jokes about how dogs like to eat their own refuse.

17-Foot Python Menaces Family Picnic [VIDEO]

Tom Blunt — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:30:06 +0000

This enormous Burmese python was killed by Florida park rangers this week after it crashed a family’s holiday outing. The snake was still in its death throes as this video was taken. You can hear one of the rangers comment that for a snake of this length, it’s surprisingly skinny. Oh really? Because to us [...]