Awesome Animals

Add this to your playlist of feel good videos. YouTuber FrostPanic nicked a video of a hedgehog giving in to a belly rub and set it to a smooth jazz cover of the Green Hill Zone theme song from the original Sonic game. So that’s where he spends the rings.

“I love you, but you have to let me go home.” We bet YouTuber henry hoffman didn’t expect he’d be saying those words that day. Much less to a fox wandering the streets of London. We have a feeling he just missed out on a young adult fantasy adventure.

Need a pick-me-up from the woes of everyday life? 4 minutes of Bradley Friesen and his bulldog Bentley’s helicopter adventure is guaranteed to erase even the darkest thoughts from your mind. Bradley & Bentley should be the basis for an animated series.

Our old pal Maru the cat finds himself crammed into another cramped, yet cozy space, but he doesn’t seem to care a lick, even when his fat cat pal Hana stops by and decides that he’s a piece of furniture.

WIRED looks one of nature’s stranger creations – the mudskipper, an odd little dude who’s somewhere between fish and reptile, able to crawl out of the water and walk on land, while still breathing through water it stores in its cheeks. Also, they remind us of Ren & Stimpy.

Shot in Galapagos, this excerpt from Planet Earth II sees a newly hatched marine iguana surrounded by racer snakes, which had already devoured most of the hatchling’s kin. Apparently, this is the first time that snakes have been seen hunting en masse. More here.

This amazing x-ray image has been floating around for a while now, but it’s too awesome not to share. The folks at O’Mal Alaskan Malamutes posted this pic of one of their dogs while it carried a huge litter of deadly miniature xenomorphs cute and cuddly puppies.

“So the next problem we have is how to get a dragon out of the toilet.” BBC’s Planet Earth II shares an unnerving moment in Indonesia, in which cameraman Mark MacEwen came back to his hotel room to find an unwanted visitor in the loo. By the end we find out why it was in there.

Panda Watch! A zookeeper at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding attempts to clean up the leaves in one of their exhibits, but the baby pandas have no interest in letting her get her job done… in the most adorable way possible.

While most of the dogs we know either splash around like madmen in the water or make a hasty retreat, Picha Puri Zo’s Siberian husky dog is about as chill as they get, and enjoys floating around the pool at doggy daycare like a sun-worn vacationer on an inflatable pool raft.

Jolene the golden retriever loves to play with her fuzzy green Gumby toy, so what better way to make her day than for her human to dress up as a giant-size version of her favorite toy. Her first reaction is one of disbelief, but quickly turns to utter bliss.

The Pet Collective presents a compilation of some of the weirdest pet behaviors, from strange sounds, to goofy poses, to animals too clever for their own good, and some downright stupid ones.

All my friends are kitties, take it slow. Insane Cherry reworks yet another track, this time taking on Twenty One Pilots’ hit Heathens, and supplementing it with the barks, meows, squawks, and cries of animals.

The beautiful purple and orange hues of dawn breaking over England’s Poole Harbor are usually enough motivation for Dave Mott to walk his dog along the shore. But one day, he came across something extra special. A solitary Japanese Sika deer bounding along the beach.

K-9 he ain’t. YouTuber niko gleeva and james’ pet dog Niko is astoundingly bad at playing hide-and-seek. We’d like to think that he’s intentionally being daft because he knows it endears himself to his masters even more.

Imgur user Kiyoi decided to see what the world might look like if animals had evolved like humans – with eyes on the front of their heads. Not only would they be more susceptible to predators approaching from the sides, they’d just look plain stupid.

Roman Wilde was watching an amusing video of a long-haired cat getting a blissful blow dry when he realised it was missing something – a soundtrack. So here ya go. Now the video is even more perfect.

2 Chainz and his DJ E. Sudd met with the owner of JumpnSpots to check out some of the latter’s crazy expensive kittens. The cattery is known for its “ocicats”, a mixed breed that’s playful and looks like an ocelot. They also have half-serval kittens that go for $15K each.

Artist Liam Underwood mashed up a video of three dogs that are each wearing a slice of bread to Denzel Curry’s Ultimate to create this unholy mashup. A masterpiece by two bored people. You’ll want to turn the volume down.

Bald eagles are incredibly beautiful and majestic, but we’d still be afraid they’d peck our eyeballs out (or worse) if we got too close. Not so for Alaskan fisherman Jessie Peck, as he tosses out some scraps of fish to a flock of the big birds.

A superfluous bit of internet fluff with Doug the Pug replacing the cast of Stranger Things. While the look on Dustin’s face is priceless, and Eleven’s pipe cleaner headgear is amusing, it’s Barb’s outfit that’s 100% spot on.

It’s every rally driver’s worst nightmare – an animal runs into the middle of the course. Most of the time it results in a nasty collision or the car running off the road to avoid it. Not so for this scrappy pup, and equally lucky rally drivers, who must have someone looking out for them.

This brief video of a dog named Chris blissfully lying in a pool filled with tennis balls pretty much sums up the ultimate canine fantasy. Looks like Barkhaus Miami is the place to stay if you like the finer things in dog life.