When a prized race horse breaks its leg, it's often written off so when someone takes the time to build a wheelchair for fish, it's no wonder that it goes viral. YouTube videos show a goldfish in a harness being hand-fed by its owner. "My disabled goldfish scooting around in her newly redesigned sling," reads the description. "She has trouble maintaining buoyancy on her own. She looks a ... [Read More]

If looking at pictures of cute animals like fuzzy kittens and cuddly puppies fills you with the uncontrollable urge to squeeze the life out of them, rest assured that you're not a "budding sociopath" says Rebecca Dyer, a graduate student in psychology at Yale University. The phenomenon dubbed "cute aggression" was presented by Dyer at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality ... [Read More]

On New Year’s Eve guards at a Brazilian prison detained a prowler attempting to assist in a jailbreak. The suspect was found with incriminating tools such as drills and saws but no charges will be pressed because of mitigating circumstances: he's a cat! The inmates reportedly befriended the cat, which was able to come and go as it pleased. It's unknown which one put the cat up to it, and ... [Read More]

Mayor Stubbs is celebrating his 15th year in office and the 900 residents of Talkeetna, Alaska couldn't be happier with his performance but out-of-towners are given pause when they meet him. That's because Stubbs is a stubby-tailed cat that was elected as a write-in candidate. As honorary mayor Stubbs has a mostly hands-off approach to government that locals love. "He doesn't raise our ... [Read More]

A purported wooly mammoth has been spotted in Siberia, but skeptics say it's just a bear carrying a fish. The fishy footage was captured by government-employed engineer Michael Cohen, who just happens to be a paranormal writer. Derek Serra, a Hollywood video-effects artist who has previously analyzed faked UFO videos, says the video appears to have been intentionally blurred in order to ... [Read More]

Talk about sloppy police work, Vermont State Police have been driving around for years with decals that feature a cow with a large pig-shaped spot. The decals were ordered in 2009 from the Northwest State Correctional Facility, where an intrepid inmate altered the image. Public Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn says he can see the humor but “If the person had used some of that creativeness, ... [Read More]

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is once again using scantily-clad women to draw attention to animal abuse. The animal rights group has preregistered the domain www.Peta.xxx, a top-level domain intended for adult websites. “A lot of organizations were gun shy about the triple-x domain, but when PETA saw it we thought this would be triple-extra effective,” says Lindsay ... [Read More]

Animal Control in Jefferson County, Colorado will be encouraging residents to pick up after their dogs by clearing up The Myth of the Poop Fairy. The campaign runs from July 9 -17 during which volunteers wearing blue “Poop Fairy” T-shirts will greet patrons of local parks to break the news to them that "There is no poop fairy." The Poop Fairy joins the annals of PSA mascots such as: Smokey ... [Read More]

It's hard to believe that it's already been a century since the video sharing website, Youtube, debuted. To celebrate they've uploaded the Top 5 Viral Pictures of 1911, which proves the more things change the more they stay the same. Apparently even back then people were getting RickRolled, poorly animating fruit, dressing their cats up as musicians, and just generally making fools of themselves ... [Read More]

Researchers at Harvard have reversed the aging process in mice. First they prematurely aged the mice by genetically engineering out telomerase, an enzyme that creates protective caps on the end of DNA strands called telomeres. The mice suffered from a variety of age-related afflictions such as testes reduced in size and depleted of sperm, atrophied spleens, damage to the intestines, and ... [Read More]

At least it's not for the animals at Allwetter Zoo in Muenster, Germany. A pair of male vultures has been separated after months of living together. One of the vultures will be shipped off to a Czech zoo to mate. The curator, Dirk Wewers, defends the separation saying, "They weren’t happy as a gay couple anyway. The other vultures picked on them and stole their nest ... [Read More]

Children can be cruel, especially to their toys. "These creatures cannot defend themselves. They cannot run away only escape. Insanity is there there only escape," explains Dr. Kindermann of The Asylum - Psychiatric Clinic for Abused Cuddly Toys (parapluesch.com). The German toymaker calls the toys therapeutic. "Children and grown ups like their vulnerability and find something in them that ... [Read More]

Commercial disclaimers are the fine print at the bottom of the TV screen that tries to dissuade you from mimicking what you see with phrases like "professional driver," "closed course," "dramatization," "fictionalization," "do not attempt," or "don't try this at home." But sometimes these warnings are for things that no one would, or even could, do. Not surprisingly, they usually appear in ... [Read More]

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is claiming victory after Dodge digitally removed the chimpanzee (but not its clothes) from its new "Tent Event" commercial. "And just like that, Dodge joins Travelers Insurance, AT&T, and Europcar, companies that have pulled or altered ads with great apes in just the last month after being contacted by PETA," said PETA. Ironically, ... [Read More]

In a world populated by animals, rabbits Packy and Botasky combat camel terrorists in the Middle East as part of special forces unit known as Cat Shit One. %CODE1%The animation doesn't just look great, it feels spot on. The characters' movements are almost too realistic. Packy and Botasky move just like you'd expect rabbits walking on their hind legs to move, waddling back and forth on ... [Read More]

According to the Chinese newspaper People's Daily, "Taliban forces have taught monkeys how to use the Kalashnikov, Bren light machine gun and trench mortars. They also teach them how to identify and attack soldiers wearing U.S. military uniforms." The Taliban isn't worried about accusations of animal cruelty though. In fact, they're counting on it. "If a person who loves animals knows the ... [Read More]