Mimic Octopus

What a fascinating creature!

Little owl hunts imaginary prey and shadows

Swimming lessons for future kings

Four cubs at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. got swimming lessons this week. The cubs and their mother will be moving to an outdoor enclosure later this year, and the cubs needed to prove that they would be able to swim if they happened to fall into the moat that surrounds the enclosure.

Blind dog uses ecolocation to get around

Bear needs keeper to sleep with him

Woman bites vet clinic employee

Gawd. So Lee County has made the international news of weird. I'm so proud.

Kathleen Minneker drops her dogs off to the groomer shortly before closing. She knows that, due to the late hour and the matted fur, the dogs won't be ready until 6 PM. But she shows up early and begins pounding on the door and screaming. When she is let in, she attacks the groomer. The clinic owner, Gina Brashear, gets in between to try and stop the attack, and Minneker turns on her.

When the dust settles, Brashear is left covered in bites and bruises.

Video included on our local news website.

The blind herder who could

"When he was good, he was very, very good..."

Meet Jack. Jack is a sheepdog in Britain. Jack was purchased March of last year to be a working dog on a sheep farm, and had settled in nicely. He'd had a few mishaps and missteps, but the family was proud of how well he'd done in his training and he'd won their hearts.

But the family became suspicious one day when he was seen running straight into a wooden peg sticking out of the ground. He was taken to the vet, who confirmed that Jack was indeed blind.

The family with whom Jack had lived and worked couldn't believe it. This dog was so adept at living blind that he had successfully been a working herder on a farm and a part of the family, without ever cluing the family in on the secret of his blindness until that day he walked into the wooden peg.

The family has decided to retire Jack keep him as a family pet now.