I am a total animal lover. I saw these cuties on Ananova.com and wanted to share them.
This is Gus. He just won an Ugliest Dog contest in Britain. Gus is a Chinese Crested, and I don’t think he’s nearly as ugly as last year’s winner, Elwood the Chinese Crested. Gus’s owner said she will use the winnings from the award to help pay for Gus’s skin cancer treatments. Poor Gus, I hope he has a nice, long and happy life despite his illness. He obviously has a wonderfully caring owner.
Guai Guai the Dachsund from China loves to help his owner’s father push his wheelchair. According to his owner, if Guai Guai doesn’t get to “work” at least once a day, he run around the house and makes himself a holy terror.
The Chongquing Wild Zoo in China may soon have a troupe of singing wolves. Luo Yong, a keeper at the Zoo, said he discovered the wolves’ singing ability by accident. “Once I was playing guitar and singing the song ‘I Am A Wolf From The North’, and a young wolf I raised walked up to me and stared at me. Suddenly he howled with the rhythm, and even patted the strings with his claw,” he said.
A mother cat has adopted a baby rat as one of her own. The rat drinks the cat’s milk with its feline “brothers and sisters” and even plays with the kittens. The cat’s owner thinks maternal instincts must have overwhelmed the cat’s predatory instincts to allow her to adopt an animal she would normally see as prey.
A roe deer in Italy was born with one horn and has been given the name “Unicorn,” after the mythological unicorn of legend. The condition is believed to have been caused by a genetic flaw – the deer’s twin sibling has two horns. Since reports of unicorns have been around for so long, perhaps this type of genetic anomaly started the legend of the magical beast.
