6/30/09
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...
6/29/09
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.
6/28/09
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.
6/27/09
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.
6/26/09
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.
6/25/09
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
6/24/09
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.
6/23/09
Cute baby Meerkats at Newquay Zoo
Lovely video about four cute baby Meerkats that are now out and about at Newquay Zoo having lots of fun. Their names are Sippet, Titch, Bumble and Fraggle.
6/22/09
Bighorn Sheep vs Toyoya 4Runner
"None shall pass. You understand?"
Thanks to sender-inner Andrew R. for submitting this one.
6/21/09
Bunnies in space...
Sender-inner Zach H. wanted to submit his latest bunny adventure to Holy Cuteness.
Thanks Zach, we never knew that bunnies played such an important role in space travelling...
6/20/09
Oregon's orphaned cougar baby
Pictures by Benjamin Brink/The Oregonian
This is Gillin, a 9 pound cougar cub, who was discovered last month near Klamath Falls. He is temporarily residing in the care of the Oregon Zoo, but is preparing for a move to his new home at The Northeastern Wisconsin Zoo.
At this stage the zoo keepers can still handle Gillin, but that won't last much longer...
6/19/09
Little duckling gets trampled by mom
"Ouch, mama!"
A little duckling gets stepped on by its mother by the River Avon in Christchurch, England...
But luckily the little duck didn't get hurt. According to an onlooker it bounced straight back up again and shook itself down.
Found at the UK Daily Mail.
6/18/09
Newborn baby deer rescue
Okay, we have to admit that the voice-over is a bit boring, but the video is very touching...
Late in the evening a friend knocked on our door with a new born baby deer in her arms, not more than an hour old. She found the mother dead from a car accident, and the baby must have popped out of the mother during the accident. The tiny baby buck laid in his mother's blood on the side of the road. Our friend Angelea cleaned off most of the blood, and her and her mother Sakkara wrapped up the baby in a towel to bring it over to us. Without a mother, the fawn had little chance for survival, but we were determined to see her through the night until we could contact a local woman who is licensed to raise orphaned deer.
Check out Deer in the yard for more videos and pictures.
6/17/09
SeaWorld Orlando welcomes flamingo fluffball
Pictures by Jason Collier/SeaWorld Orlando
Walker, a Caribbean flamingo, explores his habitat at SeaWorld in Orlando. Hatched just four weeks ago, Walker eats plenty of fish, krill, hardboiled egg and cereal and as an adult will feed on a special diet formulated just for flamingos. In fact, the trademark bright pink color of Walker's future feathers is caused by carotenoid pigments that occur naturally in a variety of plant and animal life and are responsible for the red and orange coloring in many birds. SeaWorld's avian experts expect Walker to grow into his adult plumage in about three years. To learn more about Caribbean flamingos, go to SeaWorld.org.
6/16/09
Boy flushes puppy down the toilet
A puppy needing a bath ended up in big trouble. Four-year-old Daniel Blair of London, England took his dog outside. It got muddy, so he decided to wash-up the pup in the toilet. Not such a good idea...
6/15/09
Weasel kit and cat mother...
A weasel kit frolics with the cat mother's new litter in West China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region in this undated photo. The kit was brought home July 21 by the pregnant cat. Even after the cat gave birth to a litter of five kittens on July 23, they got along well with each other...
Found at the China Daily.
6/14/09
Cat running around the toilet
Crazy black cat running around the toilet...
"Almost got it, wait! no! crap!"
6/12/09
Monkey babysitter...
Weird or cute? What do you think?
A monkey in Dhenkanal protects and takes care of a twenty-four day old human baby when his mother is engaged in household chores. The monkey comes to the house in the morning and spends the whole day taking care of the baby and at times even sleeps in the house with the little one. This incidence has become the talk of the town and the locals are also surprised, though pleasantly protects and takes care of a twenty-four day old human baby when his mother is engaged in household chores. The monkey comes to the house in the morning and spends the whole day taking care of the baby and at times even sleeps in the house with the little one. This incidence has become the talk of the town and the locals are also surprised, though pleasantly
6/11/09
Nora the piano cat takes centre stage
The BBC is reporting that Lithuanian conductor Mindaugas Piecaitis has composed a four-minute "CATcerto" for the Klaipeda chamber orchestra starring, Nora the piano cat...
Check out Nora's very own blog here and keep up to date with all her activities.
6/9/09
Mouse steals food from leopard...
Pictures by Casey Gutteridge/Solentnews.biz
This leopard looks quite surprised when a mouse steals his lunch right under his nose at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire...
Found at the UK Daily Mail.
6/7/09
Pig is a supermom...
Ok kids, what is 'wrong' here? ;-)
Visitors at a zoo in Thailand witness the bizarre sights of tiger cubs suckling a sow and piglets playing with a fully grown tiger. Sriracha Zoo in Chonburi, is Thailand's most successful tiger-breeding zoo largely due to the discovery that tiger cubs nursed by pigs grew up calm, un-aggressive and more suited to life in captivity. Now all of the zoo's 300 bengali tigers are raised this way.
6/6/09
Baby hare saved by woman
Picture by Archant Photographic
This baby hare was saved by the woman on the picture after she perforemd a caesarean section on it's dead mother...
Read the whole story here.
6/5/09
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6/3/09
Melvin the miracle kitten
Sender-inner Ronette R. writes; Attached are some pictures of Melvin, my Miracle teacup Himalayan. Yes, I said teacup. He has a form of dwarfism that will cause him to never exceed 3 pounds.
He has a super long story about how he came to us as an "accident" off of Craigslist here.
Breeding cats this small is not something that should be done because of all the health problems it can cause.
Melvin was very sick when we got him, but with some time, love, and attention, he got better. A lot better. He's still small, but very rambunctious.
6/2/09
6/1/09
Cat adopts baby squirrels
Take some orphaned squirrels, add a motherly cat, and you've got one unusual family....
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