Awesome Animals

Remember those driving dogs from New Zealand? Apparently they’re really quick learners, if this silly video mashup of that footage with Ken Block’s Gymkhana were to be believed.

Built by architecture firm Because We Can as part of a Mad Scientist-themed remodeling project for a client, the cat-tube runs across the room’s walls and has viewing ports and hidden access points.

(NSFW: Language) A family was enjoying a day out in Montreal when what appears to be a golden eagle swooped down and tried to snatch their baby. Update: it’s fake, it’s a 3D animation project.

Vimeographer Jean-Michel chanced upon this spider weaving a web and decided to document the process. He used a Nikon D4 in time-lapse mode, shooting once every 4 secs. for about 1-1/2 hours.

Watson the shar pei and his pal are enjoying their walk when a puddle catches the baby’s attention. Watson wisely lets the kid be a kid. They look like the real life version of Jake and Finn.

(NSFW: Language) ZeFrank shares with us some “true facts” about baby echidnas, and about the monotreme in general. Contrary to his previous video, this time he really is telling the truth.

BBC tipped us off to a New Zealand charity that has successfully taught dogs to drive a (modified) Mini Cooper in an awesome publicity stunt that aims to encourage people to adopt rescued dogs.

YouTuber THR1LLA115 and his cat are taking over the Internet with their air drum covers of death metal songs. You might want to turn the volume down. Pretty sure the cat would like it loud though.

We’ve featured a ballin’ turntable scratching pad for cats, but this fella wants to go on the real thing and follow in DJ Kitty’s paw steps. Oh wait. Turns out he literally wanted to go on the thing.

The sideways camera angle at the beginning of this clip might make you think this bear has anti-gravity powers, but he’s just got the power to please the crowd as he does tricks for a sip of soda.

Unless you can call permanent lifetime humiliation animal cruelty, no harm came to Greg Christenson’s tortoise Frankie, as he sauntered around a Petsmart store dressed up as a UFO.

Be mesmerized by the limber and graceful figures of cheetahs, filmed at 1200fps using a Phantom camera. A collaboration between Nat Geo and the Cincinnati Zoo. Directed by Greg Wilson.

There’s nothing funny about firefighters cleaning up after a storm. Unless one of them turns out to be a very helpful and enthusiastic dog. Or maybe he just wanted to play with the big stick.

While this is one of the facepalmingly worst cases of vertical video that we’ve ever seen, we’ll forgive who ever took it because it captures an awesome moment. Man’s best bro! Friendship yeah!

A short compilation chronicling the adorable battles and interactions of man’s best friend and small men. Good thing they excluded this nasty blow, or things might escalate quickly.

St. Bernards are famous for being bred as rescue dogs, but Maniek needs some rescuing himself. The man-sized canine refuses to go down the stairs on his own. In his defense, they are quite steep.

YouTuber jamuomii’s cat has rocket-powered springs for legs. Watch as she reaches for her toy mouse, which is tied to a pole as high as 77″ off the ground. The song is Way U Move by m-flo.

Here’s another clever dog – who’s also named Jackson – who seems to be able to understand English. He’s clearly excited to play frisbee, but he still dutifully follows his master’s requests.

YouTuber TTCdirektor took advantage of cats’ well documented love – or is it hatred? – of lasers to make this GoPro ad. He put a Hero 2 camera inside a tissue box and put a laser pointer on top of it.

Even in the animal kingdom there are good guys, then there’s this jerk. It seems he doesn’t want to bother changing direction, so he just barrels his way through his utterly surprised companion.

Editor Zapatou returns with his latest compilation of 280 of the best bits of video you’ll find on the internet, boiled down to one thrilling, action-packed 5-minute clip – and not too many cat videos.

Ozzy the dog stands upright on a tightrope. He’s isn’t as good at slacklining as us humans, but he’s working on it. Watch him take the next step and learn how to walk along a tightrope here.

This cat shamelessly pilfers from a jar of dog treats. It doesn’t even care that his owner was there to witness the whole thing. Unfortunately for him, there was another thief at the scene.