The Pet Collective has issued their retrospective of the best pet videos of 2017. These aren't just dogs and cats, either (although there are dogs and cats). Enjoy watching raccoons, foxes, geckos, hamsters, ferrets, bir...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/30/The-Best-Pet-Videos-of-2017/
He goes by Dobby Cat on Facebook because he looks so much like the Harry Potter character, but his real name is Teddy. Teddy is an oriental shorthair who lives in a household with three other cats of the same br...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/30/Meet-Dobby-Cat/
The winners have been selected in Academia Obscura's Academics With Cats competition. A cat hiding in a bookshelf won Best In Show. The kitten shown here is the winner in the Research Assistant category. His name is Benn...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/29/Academics-With-Cats-Awards-Winners/
A kitten was born with two faces a couple of weeks ago in South Africa. The scientific term is diprosopus, or craniofacial duplication. It is attributed to abnormal activity of the sonic hedgehog protein. Cats with the c...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/26/Bettie-Bee-the-Two-Faced-Kitten/
Some people still refuse to accept that goats are cute critters, and a few of these haters claim baby goats are too strange looking to be considered cute, which we know to be a straight up lie.But I defy the haters to ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/26/A-Cute-And-Funny-Baby-Goats-Compilation/
Alma T. C. Boykin has a blog called Cat Rotator's Quarterly. The blog is not about rotating cats, or even about cats in general. The name makes sense when you know the secret. Rotating one’s cat is a writer euphem...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/25/Rotating-Your-Cat/
National Geographic News came up with a cute idea for a year-end list. There were quite a few animal stories about creatures eating, including a couple that thought they could chew up an automobile. Most of the stories a...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/22/7-Times-Animals-Bit-Off-More-Than-They-Could-Chew-in-2017/
Lori Jones works at Horsetooth Inn and RV Park in Stout, Colorado. Last month she watched a deer walk into the gift shop like it owned the place. The doe looked around at all the wares, while Jones snapped pictures. She...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/21/A-Deer-Goes-to-the-Store/
Chris Poole spends a lot of time recording videos of his cats Cole and Marmalade, but he also works to bring awareness to the plight of homeless cats and big cats, too. Watch some big cats opening their Christmas gifts,...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/20/Big-Cat-Christmas-Party/
Lucky the cockatiel has learned to sing what he hears more than anything else: the Apple default ringtone. For me, this is the FaceTime alert. Lucky sings whenever he feels he's not getting enough attention, like when hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/20/Lucky-the-Scheming-Cockatiel/
Shark attacks are a pretty rare occurrence, and a shark attack caught on video is even rarer, but that's just what Sarah and Evan Carroll received as a wedding present from the denizens of the deep.Sarah and Evan were ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/18/Man-Captures-The-Moment-A-Shark-Bites-His-Wife-On-Video/
Cats love farms because they have lots of food (and rodents) for them to snack on, and farmers love cats because they help keep the farm rodent free.But having too many cats on your farm seems like a bad idea, what with...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/17/These-Beautiful-Siberian-Cats-Have-Taken-Over-Their-Humans-Farm/
What on earth inspired this guy to bring in an Eldritch Insanity Drake as a new member of the household? We all build our families in our own ways, but you have to take the feelings of existing members into consideration...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/17/The-New-Pet/
When a cat sets their mind to getting something they rarely give up until they get it, and cats have been known to bite the hand that feeds them if that something is food.But I've never met a cat who liked bread, especia...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/16/Silly-Cat-Tries-To-Snatch-A-Piece-Of-Bread-Off-The-Table/
Chris and Jess Poole decided it was asking for too much trouble to put up a Christmas tree this year, because Cole and Marmalade (previously at Neatorama) would just trash it again. Instead, they built a cat-friendly gin...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/16/DIY-Gingerbread-House-for-Cats/
Petra the African grey parrot has learned to get what she wants, just by asking. A human can say no, but Google's Alexa is programmed to carry out your wishes. This video is essentially over at two minutes. [https:...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/15/Parrot-Uses-Alexa/
Some dogs are lazy bums who can't be bothered to lift a paw to help their owners, but working dogs love to stay busy doing the important job they were trained to do, and they genuinely seem to have fun while at work.For...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/15/Hard-Working-Dog-Gleefully-Clears-Birds-From-Airport-Runway-To-Prevent-Aircraft-Bird-Strikes/
A comment thread about snow dogs led me to an interesting interview with Dr. Susan Whiton, an Alaskan veterinarian who is married to a champion musher who runs a sled dog kennel. She talked about how Siberian Huskies, Al...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/13/Cold-Weather-Safety-for-Dogs-Insights-from-a-Sled-Dog-Veterinarian/
Bats got a bad reputation when they became associated with vampires, witches and horror movies like Cujo, but in reality bats are gentle, and often skittish, critters who just want to hang with their bat buds in peace.So...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/13/Gentle-Bat-Waits-Patiently-While-Human-Snips-Off-Netting-That-Entangled-Him/
Why is this cat so grumpy? Was someone a little late with the kibble? Or is he passing judgement on the photographer? The truth is that Merlin looks like this all the time, whether he's chilling in the sink, playing with...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/12/The-Many-Moods-of-Merlin-Or-Just-One/
This picture is from a Tweet by @juliettebaba. It's not clear whether this is a deliberate alteration to accommodate a cat-centric household, an art piece, or possibly the natural result of having cats around a normal Ch...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/11/Christmas-Tree-If-You-Have-a-Cat/
Cats don't have to adhere to a 9 to 5 schedule like their poor overworked humans, and because they're free to do their feline thang whenever they want many cats think the middle of the night is the best time to get frisk...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/11/Comedian-Demonstrates-How-Cats-Act-In-The-Middle-Of-The-Night/
Michele Boudreaux set out a box of treats for delivery drivers who are working hard this Christmas season. The local wildlife noticed, and a squirrel decided the box was fair game. Boudreaux tells the story of the thievi...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/10/Thieving-Squirrel-Takes-Christmas-Treats/
LOLcats are much older than the internet, and even older than current copyrights. The children's book Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) was written by Eulalie Osgood Grover. The simple captions tell the st...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/09/The-LOLcats-of-1911/
(Image Link)Horses are noble and elegant creatures and truly one of the most beautiful animals in the world, but did you know they're also the hirsute heroes of the animal kingdom?With beautiful manes and tails that can...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/08/If-You-Ever-Feel-Sad-Just-Remember-This-Horses-Can-Grow-Moustaches/
It's time for a little warm-and-fuzzy break! Take a few minutes and revel in seeing all kinds of animals giving hugs to people (or vice-versa). We have cows, chimpanzees, parrots, fish, elephants, poultry, bears, pigs, g...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/08/Animals-Hugging-Humans/
We are just a week away from the premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and I'm so excited I feel like a kid who's caught Star Wars fever again, only with less action figures, less Ewok plushies and no Darth Vader...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/07/Star-Wars-Episode-IV-A-New-Hope-Reenacted-By-Cats/
New York photographer Brooke Goldman offered to walk her boyfriend to the train station early Sunday morning. On her way back, she was in a hurry to get some more sleep, but came across an outdoor nativity scene that had...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/07/Cat-Crashes-Nativity-Scene/
Competitive creative dog grooming is an activity that makes dogs into an art medium. The biggest competition is the annual Groom Expo, which took place in Hershey, Pennsylvania, in September. Watch as dog groomers Adrian...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/07/Well-Groomed/
(Image credit: Sir Toby Toblerone)Meet Sir Toby Toblerone. This British cat was picked up by an animal rescue group as a kitten and then was adopted from a shelter by his foster parents. Toby has never been able to walk,...
https://www.neatorama.com/pet/2017/12/07/Sir-Toby-Toblerone/
