Note: Half-hour video.
The Best Client of My Entire Pet Grooming Career
The Girl With the Dogs / YouTube, via Allein
Links: Would You Say He’s… The GOAT?
Penguins
Links: Backpack’s Packed in Back
Yes, this photo cropping is a deliberate editorial choice.
Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Alaska Public Media, via AJ & Tara O.
Bet you can guess what happened instead.
Kitten Was Only Supposed to Be Trapped and Released, but…
Love Meow, via Andrew Y.
(Adding neopolitan ice cream to shopping list.)
Pics Of Animals Which Turned Ordinary Situations Into Pure Comedy
Bored Panda, via Andrew Y.
Looks like your basic penguin to me, but what do I know.
Scientists Identify New Penguin Species for the First Time in 100 Years
People, via Andrew Y.
I sing only of sorrow and pain.
Tiny ‘goth’ bird was nearly extinct. Now it’s New Zealand’s Bird of the Year
CNN, via Karen P.
And finally: Polly Want a Dictionary
Andrew Y. found a bird who knows words.
Cheeky Little Rascal
In this clever piece by artist Parastook, a puzzled polar bear has left his penguin pal behind. He’ll be the butt of jokes when he finds him. (via Andrew Y.)
Links: Turtle Power
But they were adopted by a wise rat, and the rest is history.
Homeowners Wake Up To 64 Wild Babies Swimming In Their Pool
The Dodo, via Karen F.
They grow up so fast.
Side-By-Side Comparisons Of Cats Now And When They Were Little
Bored Panda, via NTMTOM
He’ll be the very model of a modern major general.
World’s highest-ranking penguin set to become a dad
STV News, via NTMTOM
And finally: Like a Cow to Water
Andrew Y. shares two friends at the old swimming hole.
i bet it feels good as hell to be a cow swimming with your duck best friend in a beautiful blue pond pic.twitter.com/u1X6gDuua9
— horse dentist (@equine__dentist) August 16, 2026