A woman will face court charged with animal cruelty after allegedly throwing her dog out the window of a unit complex in Sydney’s west.
The eight-month-old Staffy has been nicknamed Pup
by vets and will remain in care to undergo further tests — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This young Sugar Glider joey was found on a road about an hour drive from Sydney’s Taronga Zoo being attacked by birds. Taronga vets discovered a small wound on her leg and Wildlife Nurse Annabelle took her home for round-the-clock-care. She’s now doing really well and has just moved into the Zoo’s Nocturnal House at Wild Australia — via ZooBorns
This blanket was lovingly crocheted in a stitch pattern that I call the thermal stitch, because the finished product looks similar to a thermal blanket.
The newest addition to our line of Baby Blanket is our Octopus Motif. He measures 8″ x 8″, and is securely sewn down to the blanket in one corner — via Etsy
This is a Christmas tree with a Cthulhu plushie on top and a bunch of tentacles stuck on branches. Because why shouldn’t Christmas be more about scaring children? — via Geekologie
This poster was created to raise awareness and funds for the cleanup of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. While drilling in the gulf creates jobs and helps serve our current energy needs, the damage done by this spill will cripple the fragile gulf coast for many years — via Jude Landry
This is the jewellery version of my laying kit sculpture. It is cast in bronze and brush finished for a soft look it is sealed to prevent discolouration and the eyes are set with green garnets — via Etsy
Despite the strong human presence on the coast, an octopus is curious about snow-covered Vesuvius — via National Geographic
Boston’s Museum of Science is excited to introduce its two new baby Striped Skunks! These babies arrived at the Museum on 10 November. They were captive born on 24 September. When they get a bit bigger they will begin their careers as education animals here at the museum. Best known for their powerful scent used as a defence mechanism, Striped Skunks are one of four species of North American Skunks and are native to New England — via ZooBorns
404 – Not Found, originally uploaded by GirlieMac.
GirlieMac, aka Tomomi Imura (Twitter) just won the internet with her deftly conceived and Photoshopped series of HTTP status message “motivational poster” images, featuring cats. A bunch of them are featured above and below. The full set is here at Flickr — via Boing Boing
Octopus, originally uploaded by Brittney Borowski.
It is, of course, well know that a cat, when properly employed, is superior to any barometer for judging changes in weather and warning of oncoming storms.
Many a feline has found a home aboard both merchantmen and military airships across the Lastworld.
It is, perhaps, for this reason that in certain areas in the east of the Namoto Empire and the surrounding lands, these cat eared hats are very popular with airship pilots — via Etsy
San Francisco-based illustrator Bill Robinson created Palace of Fine Squids in appreciation of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Prints of this friendly pink squid are available at Bill’s Etsy shop, Flimflammery — via Laughing Squid
A wandering baby fur-seal wriggled through the cat-door of a Bay of Plenty house — and made himself at home on the couch.
A stunned Annette Swoffer thought she must have been hallucinating when she found the young pup hanging out with her cats in her kitchen on Sunday night.
The seal had made its way from the Welcome Bay waterfront, through the suburb’s residential area, across busy Welcome Bay Rd, up a slip road, along Ms Swoffer’s long driveway, under a gate, through the cat door and up some stairs before he was found in the kitchen about 9.30pm
Magic Carp-pet
Rug. Winner of Red Dot Design Award: Best of the Best 2011. There is no electricity, monitor or projector required to make the print on the rug animate. The animation is achieved through an optical illusion effect called Moire Animation
by John Leung
Tommaso, a four-year-old, one-time stray from Rome, is thought to have become the world’s richest cat.
Since the death of his 94-year-old mistress last month, he has become a property magnate — or perhaps mognate — with flats and houses worth an estimated €10m scattered from Milan in the north to Calabria in the south.
In a handwritten will, signed on 26 November, 2009, Tommaso’s mistress — the childless widow of a successful builder — gave her lawyers the task of identifying the animal welfare body or association to which to leave the inheritance and the task of looking after the cat Tommaso
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Empathy lets us feel another person’s pain and drives us to help ease it. But is empathy a uniquely human trait? For decades researchers have debated whether non-human animals possess this attribute. Now a new study shows that rats will free a trapped cagemate in distress. The results mean that these rodents can be used to help determine the genetic and physiological underpinnings of empathy in people — via Slashdot
There’s no better way to show ever-lasting love than with 16 arms and buttons eyes — via Etsy
Walktopus – In Progress – Clay- 5 feet tall, originally uploaded by Late Fauna.
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