In just the kind of news I like to hear, this is a video documenting the good work of 12-year old Roman McKonn, who’s helped rehome over 4,800 shelter dogs through transporting, fostering, and making videos with the dogs. Great job, Roman. He’s also very well spoken for a 12-year

This is a video of a family’s vacation to Portugal made by Instagram user datelistlou using only clips captured by her mother on her phone. Clearly, her mom has an eye. An eye for her feet and accidental selfie videos. I bet she did this on purpose as an excuse

This is a video (complete with dramatic text overlay) of a tortoise that gets knocked on its back by another tortoise (presumably after casually mentioning his girlfriend has a nice shell), and left to flail there until a tortoise pal comes along to right him. It takes some doing, but

This is a video from the Brookfield Zoo Chicago of Adelaide, a 56-year old Tasmanian short-beaked echidna (aka spiny anteater) celebrating her birthday with a special cake made out of ground mealworms and chicken puree. Yum! I wonder if visitors got a slice, I’ll never say no to cake.

Cats: they’re born rulers. And what better way to demonstrate their sovereignty than forcing their owner to build them forts? This is a video of Chris Burton of Half-Asleep Chris (I’m 95% Asleep Jack) building ten different forts for his cats Ralph and Bella using (in order): cardboard shipping tubes,

Athena, a shephard husky mix in Florida escaped her crate, ditched her collar, and was on the lam for over a week before returning home on her own, ringing the video doorbell to be let in on Christmas Eve. Classic dog, coming back for the milk and cookies. She roamed

This is a video of dogs at the Humane Education Society of Hamilton County, Tennessee each picking out their own Christmas present from two lines of plush toys. Every single one seems to carefully sniff out a special toy, except BamBam, who just charges in and changes his mind several

This is a video from a thermal imaging drone that was used to help locate Chibs, a golden retriever that had gone missing from his family’s home in Coventry, Rhode Island for 16 days. The drone camera was volunteered by Andre Rocke, owner of Four K Videos. Some more info,