Squirrel wants ice cream cone....

This squirrel sure knows how to use his cuteness for personal gain ;)

Cat wants a bath...

Apparently some cats actually do like water...

Busch Gardens animals beat the heat

Pictures by Matt Mariot/Busch Gardens

These animals know what to do to stay cool...

As the temperature swells in the Tampa Bay area, Busch Gardens animals are doing what comes naturally to beat the heat.
Because most species in the park are native to Africa or other tropical or sub-tropical climates, they have natural adaptations and behaviors to help them thrive in high temperatures. Hippos and Asian small-claw otters spend time in the water to cool off. Rhinos wallow in mud pits to beat the heat.
Also helping the animals to stay cool are the naturalistic habitats at Busch Gardens. Lush forests, waterfalls, rocky overhangs and plunge pools in exhibits such as Myombe Reserve, Jungala and the Edge of Africa mimic the animals’ environments in the wild, providing shade in the summer and sunny areas in winter.
For more information on Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, visit www.BuschGardens.com.

Kitty falling asleep

Don't you just wish you had this kitty at your couch?

More cuteness falling asleep at cutethingsfallingasleep.org

Cougar baby Gillin at the New Zoo

Looks like orphaned cougar Gillin is doing fine at her new home.

Cat doesn't like the guitar...

Sender-inner Chris C. writes; This is my 5yo Bengal Cat, called Freya.
Whenever I play the guitar, she chatters straight away, and in this video, at 39s, she covers her ears with her paw!

Hmmm, I guess you need to improve your guitar playing, Chris...

Two-month-old golden monkey baby

Picture by Xinhua/Photoshot

A two-month-old golden monkey cub in Shennongjia Golden Monkey Research Center, in central China's Hubei Province.

Found at the UK Daily Telegraph.

Cute baby frogmouth chick

Tawny frogmouth chick born at Woodland Park Zoo Seattle gets supplemental feeding, is weighed, and is returned to her parents behind the scenes with zookeeper Ernie Rose.

Free raccoon with your soda

Imagine dropping your quarters into a vending machine and having a raccoon face pop out instead of your drink... It happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Koalas during the heat wave in Australia

Some awesome pictures that Cindy W. has emailed us. More heated and also rescued Australian animals here, here and here.

Australia has had a record heat wave with devastating fires as a result.
Koalas if you don't know are not social and don't come out of trees or down to the suburbs very often. But the main thing is that they don't actually drink water normally at any time. All their food and water source is provided from the eucalyptus leaves that they eat. That's why they sleep about 22 hours of the day because the calories and liquid intake is not enough to keep them awake long enough, but they consume enormous amounts of leaves in that time. So.. the following photos are even more amazing once that fact is known.

Squirrel nuts over builder friend

A squirrel has built up a close relationship with a builder who found him when he was only a week old.
Nutty even showers with his surrogate "mum", Tony from Stockport, and goes to work with him

Baby Fennec foxes debut at Tokyo Zoo

These Fennec foxes were born in May at a zoo in Tokyo and are being looked after by staff because their mother was unable to take care of them herself. Their big ears aren't actually to help their hearing, the large surface area helps them lose heat.