Yesterday morning, a police officer in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho shot and killed Craig Jones' dog. The cop approached Jones' parked van with his gun drawn, and when he got close, he says, a pit bull lunged at his face, and he pulled the trigger.
I don't know whether to be delighted or mortified at the above video, which shows a truly enormous group of ducks, pouring down a roadway like a flood, threatening to engulf anything or anyone foolish enough to dip their toes into the water.
The video above, published by the Associated Press, shows a tour guide in Lafitte, Louisiana swimming with wild alligators, feeding them marshmallows straight out of his mouth.
Meet Pig. Pig the dog of Birmingham, Alabama. She was the big new star of Do Dah Day. And y'all know how B'ham is about its Do Dah Day dogs, bless their hearts. Pig is kinda screwed-up, aesthetically, which of course just deepens the Five Tuesdays In Heaven With Marley and Me narrative potential, fulfilled here by the Birmingham News' Joey Kennedy:
At a bar in Seattle, Washington, one dog with a strong will, wanted nothing more than to bring a giant stick through a doorway that just simply wouldn't fit it. He tries different angles, inevitably getting stuck each time, until enlisting a friend gets him to the genius idea to shift the stick's angle.
David Truscott learned an important lesson the hard way this week: rolling around naked in cow shit is perfectly fine, as long as you're doing it on your own property.
Just a man and his goat, enjoying a nice sunset bike ride together.
Mr. G, a goat, and Jellybean, a burro, were both rescued from the squalor of a hoarder's home earlier this year and were, for the first time in their lives, separated to live in different animal sanctuaries. The separation left Mr. G depressed and he didn't move or eat for six days. Until he was reunited with his best friend.
Where the hell do you rent an elephant from? Somebody in the Tampa Bay area knows, apparently.
Some of the best dogs on earth are shelter dogs. Also some of the craziest dogs. Today, we celebrate these wonderful, insane, great dogs, with their totally real descriptions from a local dog shelter.
A Boeing 747 was forced to make an emergency landing when the 390 cows on board were too hot for the plane to handle. After a fire alarm where the cows were kept started to sound and there was no evidence of smoke, technicians concluded the extremely sexy group of cows were giving off too much heat and set it off.
Call of the Wildman is a popular show about a wild-critter trapper on Animal Planet. It's also totally fake, with animals trucked-in and treated brutally. And Mother Jones, the magazine that first exposed Wildman's dark side, has new photo evidence that it screwed with some poor caged coyote for ratings.
Animals: they're just like us. Mario Eijs, a dying zoo worker at Rotterdam's Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo, fulfilled his dying wish to be brought within the zoo's giraffe enclosure, where he had been working for 25 years. The giraffes then nuzzled and kissed him goodbye as if this story weren't sad enough.
