(via Dogs Looking Like People)
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Do you own a bored bunny?
Give your rabbits hours of fun.
This bunny playground is sold by the Bunny Bunch SPCR (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Rabbits), so your money goes to helping rabbits.
For $289.00 at Bunny Bunch Boutique
(via Rabbit Merriment)
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Meet me at the swimming hole
These incredible pictures of orangutans swimming in an Indonesian
river have left wildlife experts stunned.
Playing on the Rungan River, near to Palas Island on Borneo, these
orangutans can be seen swimming and submerging themselves in the muddy
waters.
For experts the behaviour of these orangutans – who like all apes have
a natural fear of water because of predators such as crocodiles -
could prove to be a significant step forward in their evolution.
“This is a rarity – to see orangutans coming down for a swim is
unheard of in the wild,” says Simon Husson – project advisor and
scientific consultant for Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation.
“However, we know that orangutans are intelligent and innovative."
Source
The internet likes rawhide dog bones
At whatdoestheinternetthink?net, I asked what the Internet thinks about rawhide dog bones.
Great news - that's what we sell at i-pets.com!
You can ask the internet a question, too.
(via The J-Walk Blog)
Fat cat ad
From this:
To this:
From the New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital Gallery
Image ID: 1261066 & 1259072
Nestle's Swiss Milk posters by John Hassall (1893-1924)
Monday, June 22, 2009
Sick perverts
Muskogee County, OK, prosecutors on Tuesday charged a man and woman with fatally shooting and skinning a 7-week-old puppy they intended to make into a belt.
A judge ordered mental competency testing for Austin Michael Mullins, 26, and Krystal Lynn Lewis, 23.
Muskogee County sheriff’s Deputy George Roberson said Mullins shot the puppy 10 times with a .22-caliber pistol at a park near town, and Lewis then skinned the puppy at her apartment. The pair nailed the hide to a board displayed at the apartment and told investigators they planned to have it made into a belt.
Source
2,500-year-old bird's nest found
A 2,500-year-old bird's nest has been discovered on a cliff in Greenland.
The nesting site is still continually used by gyrfalcons, the world's largest species of falcon, and is the oldest raptor nest ever recorded.
Three other nests, each over 1,000 years old, have also been found, one of which contains feathers from a bird that lived more than 600 years ago.
Like many falcons, gyrfalcons do not build nests out of sticks and twigs, but typically lay eggs in bowl-shaped depressions they scrape into existing ledges or old nests made by other birds such as ravens.
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Extreme Mammals
Found only in Thailand and Myanmar, the bumblebee bat is no bigger than a bumblebee and weighs only about as much as a dime.
This is just one of the unusual animals featured at Extreme Mammals, where you can meet some of your more bizarre relatives.
How about you. Are you extreme?
Well, yes and no. On the normal side, we are warm-blooded, have hair, nurse our young and have three middle ear bones. Like ancestral mammals, we have sharp front teeth and grinding back teeth.
On the extreme side, our brains are remarkably big for our body size. Our thumbs can close against our fingers with both strength and delicacy. Our tail is just a remnant of a few hidden bones, and our body hair is very sparse.
How about walking around on two legs? What might seem to humans like the most normal thing in the world is actually one of our most unusual features. The only other mammals that travel primarily on two legs all hop like kangaroos. Walking human-style is rarer in mammals than laying eggs!
Photo: Dr. Merlin D. Tuttle/Bat Conservation International/Photo Researchers
Waste some time
The object of this game is to trap the cat – keep him from jumping off the game board. You click on a circle and the cat jumps one place. Keep it up until you trap the cat and he can’t escape.
(via Bits and Pieces)
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Attention Cat Butt Lovers!
Nothin' can beat the smell of a cat's butt... you'll know it when you smell it!
The Cat Butt Air Freshner has a fresh Hyacinth scent - just like your own cat's, but this is more portable.
Available at Perpetual Kid.
Oooh look, they have Cat Butt Stickers, too!
Want to sleep on your dead pet?
What could be more comforting than the memories of your late pet laid to rest beneath your sleeping head? If a cherished pet's death leaves you sleepless and missing that warm, furry embrace, then Patricia Moore of Naples, Fla., may have the answer: pillows stuffed with your pet's ashes.
Moore started Soft-Hearted Products after she lost her own dog, Samantha. Samantha was cremated and her ashes were returned to her owner in an urn that felt cold and impersonal.
"She was always with me," Moore said. "On my lap, on my bed, next to me. I missed that so much."
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Help Set a Guinness World Record
In celebration of the unique bond between pets and their owners, Petplan Pet Insurance is looking to set a Guinness World Record by creating the world’s largest exhibition of pet photographs.
It’s a mammoth task – they need 138,000 pictures of pets.
Here's one of the entries:
Go visit the National Petrait Gallery --- you can:
- Upload your own photos
- Take a gallery tour
- Find useful tips on caring for your pet
- Find out more about pet insurance
- Print your favorite photos on a whole range of items including t-shirts, bags and mugs.
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