This is a video of 13-year old Layla retrieving the last bat of her career with the Clearwater Threshers (a Minor League affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies). Layla has retrieved bats for the team for the past six years, after her owner trained her to fetch beer from the fridge
This is the music video for Texas Toast Chainsaw Massacre’s ‘I Wanna Pet Your Dog’, their original thrash metal song. It’s a banger. But remember: you should always ask before petting a dog because some dogs don’t like strangers. This reminds me of a parable: A man approaches another man
This is a video of a pet umbrella cockatoo carefully listening to its owner’s very impressive beatboxing before it joins in the fray with some synchronized head bobbing and wing waving. Clearly, that bird knows how to party. The birds around here? They just try to dive-bomb my apartment windows
Gatsby, a rescue cat affectionately known as Galaxy Kitty (links to his Instagram with a million videos), is a tuxedo cat with vitiligo, an autoimmune disorder that causes patches of skin to lose their pigment, resulting in Gatsby’s galactic coloration. Gatsby and his sister (with normal coloration) were rescued together
To celebrate the conclusion of the 2024 Summer Olympics (I took home the gold in staying up late to watch sports I didn’t know existed), this is a video of tabby cat Calvin demonstrating his athletic prowess by jumping through increasingly higher Olympic rings. One jump he even goes OVER
This is a video of anthropologist David Ian Howe translating five of the most touching epitaphs he’s found that ancient Greco-Romans had inscribed on the tombs of their canine companions. The first half of the video is English translations, and the second half Spanish. There were a couple real doozies
This is a video of Jake The Nomad’s husky mutt Neptune hanging out by the river and barking then perking up at the echo of his own bark. Who was that?! Somebody is across the river! It sounded like me, but I’m right here! I’m not sure any of my
Because cats are forever finding the weirdest sh!t to try (hence the nine lives), this is a video of Brooklyn, New York native feline Ashford repeatedly sticking his paw into a desktop fan. Apparently the sound woke his owners (it’s both incredibly loud and exceptionally unpleasant), which I can only