There's no better way to say welcome home than with an ecstatically happy crying golden retriever.

Cats always enjoy getting into places where they don't belong. Here a cat attempts to run and dive into a twelve pack... and it kinda succeeds!

And we all thought that the morning news team with the wackiest antics was over at NBC. Clips like these are the real reasons to wake up in the morning.

It's like an E.T.A. Hoffman bird. So cute and sweet in the beginning, more and more ominous as the story progresses.

On November 12th, 1970 the Oregon Highway Division blew up a rotting beached sperm whale and things did not go exactly as planned.

And now they fight balloons. Can we really call this progress?

Watch what happens when this elk goes crazy in an apparent attempt to attack it's own reflection.

This cat wants her gold toy but not enough to get out of her comfy, cozy, sleeve-bed!

Training cats to use the toilet sounds pretty cool in the abstract. The real deal? Not so cool.

Attention all parents: Do not take your children to this zoo in China. If the panda does to your kids what he does to these visitor's jackets, you might find yourself with some limb-less offspring.

Seems as though it's not just humans playing with the T-Pain Auto-Tune iPhone app anymore.

What on earth could this adorable little kitten be so terrified of? Click to find out!

Every morning we'll give you something to start your day off right. First up is this adorable video of a puppy who's fallen and can't get up. Get your awww's ready:

We're not dog people (which is why it's really not necessary to send us big baskets of pet swag). Gawker operative Stephen Kosloff, however, doesn't mind the poochy set. He brings us his stories from last night's ASPCA fundraiser.

"Cougar Caught In Seattle Being Released Into Wild."

Ever since Bloomberg and the Port Authority executed the adorable kittens of JFK's Happy Cat Camp, unchecked terror-birds have been waging war on the city of New York. And now they are going after Mayor Mike himself.

A French gorilla named Yeboah will soon travel to London to play — and hopefully mate — with three girl gorillas who live there. While some think he should be excited, he should actually be scared.

[A trophy buck mounted somewhere in the sprawling woodlands of NYC, shot by photographer Anne Bowerman, who specializes in using expired Polaroid film; via her Flickr]

Lilly the five-legged puppy was born to be a star. But some misguided "dog lover" types are determined to see to it that she never achieves her Freak Show career dream! You monsters.

We felt bad for Susan Orlean, the professional chronicler of whimsies, after she lost her chicken Laroche in upstate New York and then was nearly ravaged by a bear. Now come two more animal encounters, and we're losing sympathy.