Check Out The Yorkshire Terrier That Will Give You Dream Hairstyle Goals
Willamina The Yorkie has been winning hearts on Instagram with her super-cute looks and flawless hair. This pretty Yorkshire terrier manages to look just perfect, no matter how she wears her hair. Continue reading »
How The Pros Film Crocodiles Up Close
Photo by Mark Romanov & Forrest Galante/Barcroft Images
Forrest Galante dresses in a crocodile wetsuit to feel more at ease with the wild predators he is swimming with in June 2016. Daring filmmakers find a unique way of filming crocodiles – by wearing crocodile wetsuits to swim up close to the terrifying predators. Wildlife biologist Forrest Galante and cameraman Mark Romanov journeyed to the clearest waters and adopted the unusual strategy of mimicking a large adult crocodile by wearing a special scaly wetsuit. The intense footage, filmed in June this year, shows how their tactics were successful with the team intimately swimming next to six colossal crocs. Continue reading »
Meet The World’s Oldest Cat: Nutmeg The Grumpy Tabby Who Is Going Strong At 31-Years-Old
This tabby kitty just celebrated his 31st birthday, which makes him 141 in human years. The cat’s name is Nutmeg, and his owners took him in back in 1990. Last year Nutmeg suffered a stroke, but now he’s stronger and better than ever. Continue reading »
The World’s Only Brown Panda Is Becoming A Celebrity
Qizai is the world’s only brown panda, and he was abandoned by his mother at only two months old. The neglected cub was taken to a nature reserve in the Qingling Mountains in China, and people are quickly falling in love with the bear. Continue reading »
A Bear’s First Photo Shoot: Adorable Cub Ayra Strikes Comical Poses As She Balances On Two Legs
Photo by Alex Cearns / Houndstooth Studios
With her mouth agape and bright, wondrous eyes, it’s impossible not to look at this baby bear and smile. The tiny female cub was photographed when she was just four months old, weighing little more than a newborn baby at 9.9lbs. Shots show her striking various comical poses, from confidently balancing on her back legs to seemingly smiling as she sits on a weighing scale. The striking images were captured by Australian wildlife photographer Alex Cearns during a visit to the Free The Bears rescue centre in Cambodia. Continue reading »
Unusual Animals: Hydrocynus Goliath
Hydrocynus goliath, also known as the goliath tigerfish, giant tigerfish or mbenga, is a very large African predatory freshwater fish. The giant tigerfish is restricted to the Zaire River system, Lualaba River, Lake Upemba and Lake Tanganyika. Continue reading »
Sculpture Of Istanbul’s Social Media Phenomenon Cat Tombili To Be Inaugurated
A sculpture was created in memory of Tombili, the phenomenon cat of Istanbul’s Kadıköy that passed away on August 10. Upon a petition on change.org demanding a sculpture for the famous cat, sculptor Seval Şahin built the commemorative sculpture. The sculpture will be inaugurated on October 4 World Animal Day in the exact same location where Tombili posed for the famous picture. Continue reading »
Photographer Takes Delightful Fat Cat Pictures To Show Chubby Cats Are Adorable
What you’re about to see in the gallery below sure is cute, but please try to resist and not do it to your pet cat. Chubby cats are adorable, just think of Garfield, but I’m sure that it’s not the healthier condition real cat can be in. Note that many of these cats on the fat cat pictures series are already on diets. However, the topic of this article is cuteness and not health, so we’ll focus on that. Anyway, few extra pounds can happen to anyone, right? Continue reading »
Elderly Animals By Isa Leshko
Melancholy photo project, created by US photographer Isa Leshko. Here: Blue, Australian Kelpie, Age 19. Continue reading »
These Hilarious Cats Look Like Furry Catbuses Come To Life
One cat-loving Japanese Twitter user, however, stands out for her interesting locale, with an account that’s filled with pictures of felines roaming around deserts in the Middle East. With dozens of legs, these kitties might not have the full set of hundred paws to certifiably fit the classification of a centipede, but they certainly look like the multi-legged invertebrates with their elongated bodies exploring the vast sandy environment. Continue reading »
World’s Largest Slug is Bigger, Slimier, and Way Cooler Than You’d Imagine
Behold the super-slimy awesomeness that is the Black Sea Hare (Aplysia vaccaria), the world’s largest species of sea slug, weighing up to 30 lbs and measuring over 3 feet long. Black Sea Hares come to shore to lay their eggs and are apparently even slimier to the touch than they look. Continue reading »
Cosplay Cats Are Taking Over The Internet
You’ve probably heard of cosplay, where fans of comics, TV shows, and movies dress up like their favorite characters. Some of the costumes are incredibly detailed and impressive. But have you ever heard of cosplay for cats? Thanks to two cooperative cats and a creative costume designer, these awesome photos are beginning to take over the internet. Nathan Smith, a plumbing-technician by day, costume designer by night, lives in Washington state with his two cats, Nak and Freyu. Smith took Nak to a Renaissance fair (in costume, of course), about five years ago, and ever since he’s been creating costumes just for his cats. Continue reading »
Photographer Captures The Daily Lives Of Cats In Majestic Black And White Photos
In her own words Monika Małek is a ‘catographer’ who specialises in the photography of all things feline and despite having photographed more than 200 of them on various shoots and projects her black and white photographs stand out as some of her most beautiful and captivating. Continue reading »
Cat Dressed In Tiny Sailors Outfit Becomes Captain Of Russian Cruise Ship
As we all know, cats aren’t that fond of the water, but sailing the high seas is another thing all together and for the past 8 years that’s exactly what Sailor the Persian cat has done. Since 2008 the grumpy feline has been living or ‘working’ onboard a Russian cruise ship for tourists that goes between Moscow and St. Petersburg with captain Vladimir Kotin at his side and even has his very own miniature sailors outfit. Continue reading »
Woman Builds A Tiny Bedroom Under The Stairs For Her Chihuahua
When building a house, you plan where your living room, kitchen, bathroom, kids room, and so on is going to be. But what about a room for your dog? Well, this woman used the space under the stairs and transformed it to cute and elegant room for her Chihuahua pet named Pancho. Continue reading »
Photographer Dresses Pets Up As Famous People And Photographed Them To Raise Money For The Local Pet Shelter
The hotly anticipated 2017 desktop calendar featuring rescue dogs and cats photographed by Emma O’Brien. Continue reading »
All Adverts In London’s Underground Station Have Been Replaced With Cat Pictures
If you arrived at Clapham Common tube station one morning to find that every advert had been replaced with pictures of cats, you’d no doubt logically conclude that our feline friends paid for the initiative as part of their first steps towards world domination. And in a way you’d be right, because the stunt was indeed paid for by CATS. But fortunately for us, that’s where the conspiracy ends, because CATS stands for the Citizens Advertising Takeover Service, and they’re the team responsible for this rather bizarre campaign. Continue reading »
Scientists Are Painting Eyes On Cows’ Butts To Stop Lions Getting Shot
Image courtesy of Ben Yexly / UNSW
For more than 10,000 years, ever since man started herding cattle for food and enrichment in Africa, lions have been a huge problem. A lion, or, more likely, a pride of lionesses – who are the real hunters – can ruin a small farmer’s livelihood by killing even a single cow, especially one that is pregnant or producing milk. Thanks to Botswana’s excellent conservation policies, the country has one of Africa’s largest wild lion populations – estimated at 3,000. For poorer subsistence farmers, though, it is harder. Continue reading »
Rescued Dog Loses 35 Pounds Of Hair After Getting Its First Haircut In 6 Years
Image courtesy of Amanda Brooke Charsha-Lindsey / Facebook
After spending six years in a barn stall, Lazarus is finally getting a second chance.
Amanda Brooke Charsha-Lindsey with the Big Fluffy Dog Rescue shared an inspiring photo (above) of a recently rescued great pyrenees named Lazarus to her Facebook page on Sunday. According to Charsha-Lindsey, Lazarus was kept in a barn stall for the past six years, and was in dire need of a haircut when groomer Candice Skelton rescued the pup. Continue reading »
This Modern Dog House Is Designed To Fit Your Home’s Aesthetic
This dog house design proves that they can be just as architecturally designed as any other house. After searching for something that would suit their own home and not finding anything, RAH:DESIGN decided to create their own and launched the MDK9 Dog Haus. Using the techniques and materials that are found in modern homes, like Brazilian Teak, powder-coated steel and concrete, they were able to create a dog house that would look good and be functional at the same time. Continue reading »
A Thrill-Seeking Photographer Risked Life And Limb As He Swam Alongside A Ten-Foot-Long American Crocodile Near Belize
Photo by Rodrigo Friscione / mediadrumworld.com
Stunning pictures show Mexican underwater photographer Rodrigo Friscione getting up close and personal with the two-hundred-pound predator. Other shots show the curious croc check itself out in the camera lens and poke its head above water. Rodrigo, who runs a dive shop in Cancun, Mexico, took the spectacular images in Chinchorro Banks. Continue reading »
Deer Collides With Cyclist During A Triathalon
Shane O’Reilly from Blackrock in County Dublin, only had 10km left of the road race when a deer collided with him. He told the press that the collision caused his helmet to be cracked, but he still managed to get back up and finish the race. Continue reading »
Cat Helps Lost Hikers Find Their Way In The Swiss Mountains
Redditor sc4s2cg shared some photos of an interesting cat they met while in Switzerland. He got lost while hiking and the cat was nice enough to help him find his way back to the hostel. Other redditors noted that they’ve run into the same cat before and that she helped them find their way home too. Continue reading »
Rescued Dogs Dressed Up In Sophisticated Outfits, Floral Crowns To Get Adopted
Rascal, and her brother Petey, were abandoned as pups near the railroad tracks in Union County, Arkansas. She is a pit bull cross and approximately 6 months old, in Arkansas, United States. These canine portraits will make any dog lover’s day – and they’re helping to get sheltered pups adopted at the same time. Kind-hearted photographer Tammy Swarek came up with the idea of dressing up rescue dogs to draw attention to their stories and help potential owners personally connect with them. Continue reading »
Cat Survived Flooding In Floating Basin, Saved By Rescuers
A cat is trying to survive in catastrophic flooding in the city of Haiphong Vietnam by floating in a small basin. According to the cat owner, Lê Quốc Phong: “I took these photos when our house was flooded after a typhoon in Vietnam on May 7. And he was very quick to jump out because he was afraid of the water basin.” Continue reading »
