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Otter
Ace of Spades ♠ • Sun 2020 Sep 27, 1:10pm

Quarantine Cafe: Joey the Sea Otter Edition

Joey is a rescued sea otter pup.

He was rescued at just fourteen days old.…

Several videos at the link
Cat, excited
mindful webworker, A♠ Pet Thread • Tue 2020 Sep 22, 3:33pm

…On Saturday before Labor Day, Milady and I made a rare trip to our in-town "office," to pick up some things. As "fortuitous coincidence" would have it, we found a family, heading through town, stopped for a minute in our parking lot; their two young boys were trying to catch the two tiny kittens who had come up to them. We joined in the ensuing comic chase scene (worthy of the great Duck artist Don Rosa).…

Pictures and descriptions in the post.
Bluebird of Bitterness
Bluebird of Bitterness • Sun 2020 Sep 13, 2:51pm

Bluebird of Bitterness, Caturday funnies — basket case edition

Another great kitteh pix collection from Bluebird.
Cat, excited
Bluebird of Bitterness • Sun 2020 Sep 13, 2:48pm

Bluebird of Bitterness Caturday Funnies

Cat Caught, YouTube video 0:30
Dog
Joel Fischer @JFNYC1, Twitter • Fri 2020 Sep 11, 8:02pm
Highly recommended that you not waggle your rioting butt too close to a snarling, snapping German Shepherd. Twitter video, 0:30
Raccoon (not albino)
@V_actually, Twitter • Thu 2020 Sep 10, 1:36pm

This albino racoon eating cherries, living the good life…

Twitter video, a delightful 0:36.
@darrengrimes, Twitter • Thu 2020 Sep 10, 12:28pm

I’m waiting for the Pink News report on homophobic police horses.…

I presume the horses had some perception problems with the painted street, but their reaction is sadly hilarious. Twitter video, 0:26
Bunny
Sunny Skyz • Sun 2020 Sep 6, 12:49pm

A family in England rescued a baby hare and now receives daily visits from the critter after releasing her back into the wild.…

DogCat
Misanthropic Humanitarian, A♠ • Sat 2020 Sep 5, 2:23pm
Links to critter stories, pix and stories - happy and sad - of pets.
Dog
Imgur • Mon 2020 Aug 31, 12:43pm
This kid, still in diapers, looks like a baseball pro already. Video, 0:24
Cat, excited
@OntWtf, Twitter • Mon 2020 Aug 31, 12:22pm
Funny short bit h/t WeirdDave on Ace of Spades. Twitter video, 0:24
Excited cat
Bluebird of Bitterness • Sat 2018 Dec 1, 2:14pm

Happy Caturday — dashing through the snow edition

Eighteen great pix
Dog
Claudia, IOTWReport • Sun 2018 Sep 2, 1:15pm

Lazy or Laborious?

Another nice Claudia critter pix collection
Dog
Paula Godwin, Facebook • Mon 2018 Jul 2, 10:32am

…So this morning was up bright and early to go on a hike… as we were walking down the hill I literally almost stepped on a mf rattlesnake. But my hero of a puppy Todd saved me He jumped right in front of my leg were I surely would have got bit.…

Hero doggie
Dog
Aetius451AD, Ace of Spades • Fri 2018 Jun 29, 11:07pm

…Man was cast out of Eden. Dogs could stay, but they walked out with us.

Cat, Excited
Claudia, IOTW Report • Fri 2018 Apr 13, 1:22pm
Another d'aawww-inducing collection of critter pix by Claudia
Dog
Sunny Skyz • Sun 2018 Mar 11, 2:02pm

An 18-month-old German Shepherd named Luna fell off a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean, swam two miles to a nearby island, and survived for five weeks by eating mice before she was found by the Navy.…

Cute dog - see pic.
Tiger
Claudia, IOTW Report • Sun 2018 Mar 11, 1:57pm

Reflections of Myself

Claudia collects amazing pictures of critters-times-two.
Excited Cat
Bluebird of Bitterness • Sat 2018 Mar 10, 12:39pm
Cats and dogs, living together! Chaos! End of the World! It's --- oh, d'aawwww.
Bald Eagle
Tess Maune, NewsOn6 • Thu 2018 Feb 22, 3:59pm

An Oklahoma game warden rescued an ice-covered bald eagle Tuesday afternoon.… It took a some time, but Grace managed to catch the bald eagle.

“This kind of weather is really hard on wildlife of all kinds. I think this is the first time I’ve ever had an eagle that couldn’t fly that was coated in ice…”

He put the bird in a cage in the cab of his pickup truck and cranked up the heater to warm up the bird. …after 45 minutes …the eagle had warmed up enough to be released.…

Bunny
Claudia, IOTW Report • Mon 2018 Feb 19, 1:28pm
Cute collection of critters chowing down.
Rage Guy
Zoe Forsey, Mirror UK • Thu 2018 Feb 8, 4:51pm

Headline: Woman Flushes Emotional Support Hamster Down The Toilet After She’s Told It’s Not Allowed On Flight…

Apparently, the emotional support was one direction only. S'long, Fluffy! *FLUSH!*
Cat, Excited
Good News Network • Wed 2018 Jan 10, 12:58pm

…The cat had been frozen to a boat dock in Mercer County, Kentucky for eleven hours after it had accidentally tumbled into the water, climbed out onto the shore, and icy temperatures caused its paws and fur to stick to a rock.…

Ron Barnett, Independent Mail • Sat 2017 Dec 16, 12:50pm

…“I SMACKED the President hard on the back,” Burns exclaimed via text.

That must have given the Secret Service in the room a jolt. But when he explained to the president that he just instinctively smashed the arachnid without thinking, everybody laughed, and the photo shoot went on…

…a yellow sac spider – one of a handful of poisonous spiders that live in the Washington, D.C., area.… can cause symptoms similar to that from a brown recluse…

CBS News • Wed 2017 Dec 13, 12:41pm

(Dec 10) …three people… injured… 10… left homeless after a woman accidentally started a fire while trying to kill bed bugs with rubbing alcohol at a multi-family home in Cincinnati. …damage is estimated at $250,000.…

(Nov 28) Eight people were left homeless …when a 13-year-old boy set fire to an apartment building after dousing a bed bug with alcohol.…

Related Story: Man sets himself, apartment ablaze trying to kill bedbugs

Time to bring back DDT!
Deer
Katrina Butcher, KFOR • Wed 2017 Dec 13, 12:34pm

…southeast Oklahoma… Josh Hughes and Drake Fletcher found a rare buck dead and hanging in the fence near their hunting property. … “This unique specimen of a whitetail carries an impressive 47 points, with a spread of over 20 inches, and a green gross score of 269 3/8 inches,” read a post on the Oklahoma Game Wardens Facebook page. …aged at approximately 6.5 years of age.…

47 points!!??!! No wonder it got tangled in the fence. Poor buck. (Article dated Dec 8.)
Cat, Excited
Inside Edition • Mon 2017 Dec 4, 11:24am

…the Peterson family noticed a diamondback rattlesnake in their Leesburg backyard last weekend. As they were going inside, their cat, Oreo, took matters into his own hands, fighting off the venomous reptile.

"He's a little protector," said 10-year-old Jaiden Peterson, who adopted the feline just over a year ago.

Oreo got bitten by the snake during the fight but survived.…

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