Cool cats gotta wear shades
technorati tags: cats, kitten, kittens, cat, sunglasses, pics, cute
March 3, 2006 in animal pictures, cat pictures, cute pictures, funny pictures | Permalink | Email This Post | Comments (22) | TrackBack
, add to Yahoo!MyWeb or Digg This!Some very happy dogs and cats - pets smile for the camera
technorati tags: pics, pets, cats, dogs, cat+pics, dog+pics, cat, dog, cute, photos, animals
February 22, 2006 in animal pictures, cat pictures, cute pictures, dog pictures | Permalink | Email This Post | Comments (20) | TrackBack
, add to Yahoo!MyWeb or Digg This!Incredible photos of a baby hippo that was stranded by the tsunami and the tortoise that adopted him
NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa, officials said.
The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him. "It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park, told AFP.
"After it was swept and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added. "The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added.
"The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years," he explained.
(I think this is one of the cutest, sweetest and most endearing things I’ve come across in quite some time – Emily)
February 2, 2006 in animal pictures, cute pictures, funny pictures | Permalink | Email This Post | Comments (108)
, add to Yahoo!MyWeb or Digg This!Why run the dishwasher when your dog will clean your plates for you?
February 2, 2006 in animal pictures, cute pictures, dog pictures, funny pictures | Permalink | Email This Post | Comments (8)
, add to Yahoo!MyWeb or Digg This!What your cat does when you're not home
February 2, 2006 in animal pictures, cat pictures, cute pictures, funny pictures | Permalink | Email This Post | Comments (11)
, add to Yahoo!MyWeb or Digg This!The Cats Watch Closely to Analyze the Behavior Patterns of the Gerbil
February 2, 2006 in animal pictures, cat pictures, cute pictures, funny pictures | Permalink | Email This Post | Comments (6)
, add to Yahoo!MyWeb or Digg This!Why God Made Pets
|
They can be helpful 
They help you when you're down They are great at decorating for the Holidays They have "great" expectations
They are Patriotic
They are happy to "test" the water They love their "teddies" They know who's "BOSS"
|
May 31, 2005 in animal pictures, cat pictures, cute pictures, dog pictures, funny pictures | Permalink | Email This Post | Comments (322)
, add to Yahoo!MyWeb or Digg This!More funny cat and dog pictures
March 17, 2005 in animal pictures, cute pictures, dog pictures | Permalink | Email This Post | Comments (18)
, add to Yahoo!MyWeb or Digg This!Funny cat and dog pics, largely featuring new positions to sleep in
March 15, 2005 in animal pictures, cat pictures, cute pictures, dog pictures | Permalink | Email This Post | Comments (8)
, add to Yahoo!MyWeb or Digg This!Why mother's need eyes in the back of their heads
Who let the kid out?
Getting an early start with the po-po
Got milk?
March 15, 2005 in baby pictures, cute pictures | Permalink | Email This Post | Comments (9)
, add to Yahoo!MyWeb or Digg This!
