Some of you who stop by here may know I have a fondness for a special dog named Mabel – a stray with apparently plenty of corgi in her bloodlines.
So you can understand when I ran across this video of corgis playing tether ball (which won’t let me embed it) I couldn’t stifle the “Awwwww” that escaped from me.
Looks like Mabel is going to have to get on some fitness regimen to compete with these canines.
Watch and smile.
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Tagged animals, corgis, dog tricks, dogs, dogs playing tether ball, fun, funny animals, playgrounds, tether ball, tetherball
So who would win a battle between an electric eel and an alligator?
Well, actually a smart alligator would leave an electric eel all alone.
Nature provides all sorts of defenses – poison, camouflage, big brains combined with opposable thumbs. For the eel, it’s a shock of electricity that can save its life from a predator.
Here’s visual evidence of an entanglement between the two captured by a Brazilian fisherman.
The eel’s effort was more successful than this python which tried to eat an alligator.
Photo credit for arm-raising alligator – Funny Junk
No need to travel to the savannas of Africa to see nature in all its brutal glory.
Just peek out your window into your backyard or peer down from your apartment building and see what’s going on in the streets below.
To prove my point, here’s an epic battle featuring two cats and two crows.
Posted in animals, cats, freaky animals, nature
Tagged animals, birds, cat fight, cats, cats and crows, crows, epic battles, felines, nature, street fights, weird animal fights
3 out of four dogs recommend you stay off drugs.
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Tagged animals, black labs, chocolate labs, dogs, drugs, funny animals, golden labs, labrador retrievers, meth labs, pets, weird animals, yellow labs
Oh where oh where can I order one of these?
I don’t care so much about the pickpocket option, but I would be interested in one that doesn’t fling its own poo. Or anyone else’s poo for that matter. No poo flinging in general, just to be clear.
Oh, and non-smoking of course.
Via: Sober in a Nightclub
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Tagged alcoholic beverages, ales, beer, freaky animals, funny, funny animals, funny posters, liquors, monkey flinging poo, monkeys, pets, poo, trained drinking monkey, weird
I’ve posted a tremendous work by the stop-motion animator Blu on this blog before. It was his work Muto.
Blu is back with an amazing take on the creation and evolution of our planet and the creatures upon it, including us human folks.
Settle in and prepare to be entertained as the world gets started and ends with a “Big Bang Boom.”
Posted in animals, art, nature, science
Tagged animated graffiti, art, Big Bang Boom, BLU, evolution, MUTO, stop motion animation, wall art
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is such a tremendous tragedy.
The gallons keep pouring out and it’s just a matter of time before the shit hits the fan oil hits the sand.
I had heard some tidbits about the use of human hair and animal furs to help absorb the noxious mess before it reached land.
Then I ran across an environmental page at Change.org that illuminates how we citizens of the planet can pitch in in several different ways.
Upon spotting a link there that mentioned shaving your poodle to aid the cause, I clicked the link to Matter of Trust’s website. I didn’t realize just how amazing the fur/hair option is in cleaning up the oil spill.
This isn’t a new thing. They’ve been working since 1998 out of San Francisco.
There’s more info about it all in this video.
So shear those sheep, ship your sheers. Whatever it takes to save the gulf.
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Tagged animal hair, animals, BP, BP disaster, Change.org, eco, eco disaster, environment, fur, green, grooming, hair, Matter of Trust, oil, oil spill, pet grooming, pets
So I spent the majority of Monday on a day long drive from the office to a tennis match to another tennis match to a softball game and back to the office.
It was a long day, nearly 200 miles and several different towns and cities.
I spent most of it by myself in the car. Part of the time driving I was on the phone, but most of it was just good old me, myself and I.
During the course of the day I saw tears of sadness and exhaustion followed by tears of joy. The joyful emotion came not from an athlete but from a parent.
I saw heavy, black thunder clouds that transported tornadoes that ripped up a few communities I didn’t drive through.
I saw a coyote trotting through a field. I don’t know its destination, but I believe it was racing to find a safe spot ahead of the storm.
I saw a rainbow.
I think it was some sort of vision quest day.
Sometimes nature is heartbreaking.
A squirrel was run over and killed by a vehicle. Its loyal friend keeps scavenger crows from attacking its corpse. This just makes me choke up a little bit.
If the video above doesn’t work, here’s a link to its page on Youtube.
There are some links to more of the squirrel’s protective nature in this post about a mother squirrel protecting her baby from a dog.
Posted in animals, My Legion, nature, ouch
Tagged animals, awww, crows, loyal animals, nature, sad nature, squirrel loyalty, squirrel protects dead squirrel from crows, weird nature
I spotted this on Saturday in Paris, Tennessee and I think it applies to me.
Posted in animals, cars, My Legion, ouch, Too much info
Tagged bumper stickers, funny, funny bumper stickers, nuttier than a squirrel turd, Paris Tennessee, squirrels
The Squirrel Queen 