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Pool-Playing Chihuahua A Hit At Washington Billiards Club
by Ezquara
Posted September 4th, 2010 at 12:10 am

It started out as fun and games. Connie Baldwin would be playing pool in her Washington home, when her Chihuahua pup, Amadeus, would come sniff around, wanting to be held. "One day, I just put him up on the table and said, 'Go get the ball,' " "He couldn't really bite them, but when I said 'Go get the ball' again, he started knocking them around." Every time the eager pooch would knock one into the pocket, Baldwin would praise him — and that's how the world's smallest pool player got his st...

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Katy Perry’s Cat Is Her Company’s CEO
by Wish
Posted August 22nd, 2010 at 7:05 am

Has fame and success gotten to Katy Perry's head? No, but it has definitely affected her cat, Kitty Purry."Oh, Kitty Purry ... Yeah, she is quite the diva," Perry . "She's the title owner of my company. She's the CEO, really, and she makes that known all the time." Kitty Purry might have a point. The Maine coon was, after all, nominated for a Teen Choice award last year for best celebrity pet (she lost to Bo Obama). It's a long way from the street, which is where Perry first found and...

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Cat Vs. Birthday Card
by Taanuu
Posted August 13th, 2010 at 12:00 am

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Cat Deliver A Puppy !!
by Wish
Posted August 11th, 2010 at 12:03 am

Believe it or not, but one woman in Georgia is claiming that her cat has defied science. She says that her moggie has given birth to a PUPPY, in a labour that lasted two days. While they are not fighting like cats and dogs just yet, she says the pup's tails and ears take after its mother - while the rest of the body is fully canine. Scientists have not ruled out radiation as the reason, but say that any cross species encounter was an unlikely cause. (source)...

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Meet The World’s Most Expensive Cat
by Ezquara
Posted July 24th, 2010 at 12:06 am

Meet the world's most expensive breed of cat - the Californian 'Ashera', which will set you back a cool $22,000 dollars. (source)...

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The Unlikely Friendship Between A Pooch And The World’s Largest Rodent
by Taanuu
Posted July 22nd, 2010 at 12:04 am

Think of the epic friendships of all time, Butch and Sundance, Thelma and Louise, Turner and Hooch and now add, Charlie and Pacho. Pacho is a black shepherd mix dog and Charlie is one of the world’s largest rodents, the capybara of the Peruvian Amazon, which I encountered on Hear the World’s Global Explorer’s expedition.They’re both rescues. Charlie was saved from a family who killed his mother for meat and then tried to keep the rodent as a pet until he got much too big for their t...

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Dolphin Jumps Out of Tank During a Performance
by Ezquara
Posted July 19th, 2010 at 12:05 am

Tourists watched in horror as a dolphin leapt out of a tank during a performance at an aquarium in Japan. The event was captured on camera by an American visitor to the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium.The footage shows the dolphin being hosed down by its keepers, wrapped in mats and lifted back into the tank with a crane, while the other dolphins in the tank appear to be distressed and gather inside the tank where the creature leapt out. Former US dolphin trainer turned campaigner, Rick O’Ba...

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Jihad Monkey!
by Ezquara
Posted July 18th, 2010 at 7:01 am

Monkey see, monkey kill.Taliban terrorists have a secret weapon to destroy the infidel American enemy — monkey marksmen.According to The People’s Daily in China, the Taliban in Afghanistan is “training monkeys to use weapons to attack American troops.” The newspaper’s bizarre story says the Islamic insurgents have drafted macaques and baboons to be all that they can be, arming them with AK-47 rifles, machine guns and trench mortars in the Waziristan tribal region near the border...

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Elaine Morgan And Her Aquatic Apes
by Taanuu
Posted August 8th, 2009 at 1:05 am

Elaine Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis: the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitats. Hear her spirited defense of the idea — and her theory on why mainstream science doesn’t take it seriously. Elaine Morgan is an octogenarian scientist, armed with an arsenal of television writing credits and feminist instincts, on a mission to prove humans evolved in water. (source)...

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Snuggie Attempts To Smother Your Dog In Style
by Ezquara
Posted August 7th, 2009 at 1:16 am

Does your dog stare jealously at you as you effortlessly flip through a magazine and chat on the phone on a chilly night -- all while bundled up in your Snuggie? Well, your dog's day has come. You may have thought you'd heard the last from the makers of the Snuggie, but alas the infamous company is back. Laughing off rumors that they stole the wearable blanket idea from rival, Slanket, the Snuggie has moved on, and by move on we obviously mean make a move on you dog. Cashing in on the idea...

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Baboons Crazy Attack
by Wish
Posted July 31st, 2009 at 1:25 am

Visitors to a UK safari park are being warned to look after their luggage, after a pack of baboons learnt how to open car rooftop boxes.Bosses at Knowsley Safari Park say they have now seen several instances of their baboons opening the luggage boxes and rummaging around inside. The baboons have worked out that it one of them jumps up and down on the case till the lock breaks the others can then flip it open.As a result, some holiday makers have been forced to sit helplessly as they watched...

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Meet The World’s Rarest Tortoise
by Wish
Posted July 24th, 2009 at 4:35 am

Science and environment correspondent David Shukman meets the world's rarest tortoise - Lonesome George. This ancient reptile is the last remaining survivor of a subspecies of giant tortoise. the last one (source)...

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Glow-In-Dark Dogs
by Ezquara
Posted July 21st, 2009 at 9:02 am

No, that is not a typo. Scientists in South Korea claim they have used cloning to produce four dogs which can glow red in the dark. While it sounds like a wacky student prank, it actually has major implications for medical science. The four cloned beagles look perfectly normal in daylight, but several bodyparts glow red in the dark, including the nails, skin, eyes and abdomen. The entire body glows under ultraviolet light. The effect comes from a gene which produces a protein which...

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Pool-Playing Chihuahua A Hit At Washington Billiards Club