This big hairy boy is about to get his very first professional grooming, and when The Girl With the Dogs is done, he’ll leave behind a couple pounds of fur, along with, erm, other organic matter.
Pups
Links: The Insurance Claim Must Be Epic
Elephant flips car, baby orangutan makes public debut, endangered donkey finds a safe home, and a dog with googly eyes.
Playful mother elephant flips parked SUV in Khao Yai for fun
Straits Times, via NTMTOM
Philadelphia Zoo Announces Birth of Sumatran Orangutan
Philadelphia Zoo, via Tara O.
And finally: Why I Eyes Ya
via Mastodon
Oh Boy, It’s the Dog Park Dream
This one’s my favorite. Everybody knows who I am and runs up to sniff me, and then we run around so fast it’s like we’re flying, and then we really are flying and we go to the moon and Santa Claus gives us ice cream.

Links: B is for Bear
Bear goes to school, cats with jobs, dog in Parliament, and the ice cream truck’s cutest customer.
Bear breaks into classroom and nearly steals teacher’s lunch
USA Today, via NTMTOM
How Jennie the golden retriever is taking Westminster by storm
YouTube, via Karen F.
And finally: Ice Cream! Ice Cream!
A9 shares a good girl getting a treat as sweet as she is.