Figaro Checks His E-mail

This is so typical! Management moved the presentation up a week, and of course they waited until the last minute to tell me. Guess I’d better hop to it!


I’m going to need you to go ahead and come in on Bunday, Toms Bauģis. More Figaro

April Fool!

The Huffington Post has steered us to many of the cute videos you’ve squeed to on C.O., and we’ve wanted to thank them in the worst way — and we think you’ll agree, that spoof page was it. Seriously, we can’t get e-nuff of April Fool’s Day, and hope you enjoyed this year’s prank. Thanks to Meg, Pyrit and Crazy Pants for adding jokes and pics, and Arianna Huffington for not suing. Until next year…

DON’T…


STOP…


LAUGHING!


Photo credits: Cat, quatre mains; Dogs, Melody C.; Dog, joshDubya; Cat, k4dordy; Penguin, Lara Mercer Photography; Horse, katieblench

PS: If you missed the spoof, you can still see it here.

Hungry Happy Harry Hippo Holds Handsome Honker Hilariously

Hard to believe anyone would reject this cuddly blorper, but that’s just what Harry the Pygmy Hippo’s mother did, so keepers at a wildlife sanctuary in South Africa raised him by hand ’round the clock. Looks like he has an effective way of telling you when it’s time for a feeding, too.


Picture by Miller and MacLean/Caters News. Story, more pictures at The Huffington Post.

Three Bells and All’s Well

(Hmm… everything looks quiet in the castle courtyard… Guards asleep at their posts as usual… Squire Blorfington just ducked into the serving girls’ quarters; I can’t believe he thinks he’s keeping that a secret… Some cats camping out in the forest, carving bows and arrows… Probably out hunting, that’s nice…)


Photo by Flickr user Victor Svensson

And They Called it Puppy Looooove…

Unfortunately, Carl and Belinda’s first attempt at French kissing was a disaster.


A mouthful of cuteness from Flickr user Soggydan.

Wait, What Was Step Three Again?

Congratulations, rocketeer! Just follow these simple instructions, and your X-500 Mega Rocket will be ready to hurtle into the cosmos!

  1. Attach stabilizer fins (a) to first-stage fuselage (b)
  2. Load fuel canister (c)
  3. Insert cat (d) into second-stage nose cone unit (e)
  4. Attach first-stage unit to second-stage unit
  5. Light fuse (f)


“All Carbon” by Flickr user Steve Jurvetson.

Sleep in the Round

Rule of Cuteness #46 rolls up again, showing us that two animals sleeping in a yin-yang position is an endless mandala of adorableness:


Another Rule of Cuteness illustrated by Mendhak.

Oh Hai Noon

I downed my whisky, steeled my nerves and stepped out of the saloon. Boot Hill was full of gunslingers put there by The Kid, and now he’d called me out. Only two ways left to go: running like a dog for the rest of my days, or onto that street.

He was waiting there, fixing his beady eyes on me, eyes that had seen death without ever blinking. Hard to believe that someone so fluffy could be so cold.

“Fill your hand, varmint,” he squeaked.


“This is Hector my decadent hamster.” says Hannah.

Now a Word From Our Sponsor

Unlike traditional dog sweaters, which have to be painfully spot-welded in place by left-handed Norwegian rabbis during the light of a full moon, Snuggie for Dogs can sap your pet of his or her dignity in just seconds!


Suggested by Mischa M., who spotted this at Ross:

Wow, Those Guys Are Really Tired

Just look at them. Like little angels, both of them. I’ll bet they were playing pretty hard to get all tuckered out like that. I mean, they haven’t even moved since I’ve been sitting here; you’d think that they… that they… were… Oh, no


Nora W. explains: “This is my cat, Little Ghost. When my dad changed the background on the computer she jumped up and sat like this for half an hour.”