That’s what this slideshow is about, Kurt Cobain and his kitten Spina Bifida.

Savannah cats are a mixture of Serval and siamese cats.  The one above’s name is Magic and she holds the Guinness world record for the tallest domesticated cat in the world (17.1 inches from shoulder to toe.)

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Just like people, only cuter.

Here is a list of the 20 drunkest animals on YouTube, if you’re into it.

image via QBN

Love.  A dog saves its injured dog friend on a highway

I got this puppy roll from one of those crazy Food Trucks you see all over Manhattan these days.  I should really cut my fingernails, huh?

by Pete Chicago

And by best friend, I mean creature that I will introduce into children’s nightmares. I kid, sort of.

From MSNBC:
“A Cat Ba leopard gecko has a technicolor pattern along its body and was found on Cat Ba Island in northern Vietnam. Named Goniurosaurus catbaensis, it has large, orange-brown catlike eyes with long and thin legs, digits and claws.”

See more new species discovered in the Mekong Valley here

Brian Raymond

Here he is as a deer

Stuffed Animals, who doesn’t love them?  You were brought up with fake ones when you were a child, so it makes sense to progress to the real thing when you’re grown up.  Here’s a look at some of our favorites from the site, Crappy Taxidermy.

Love this ad, lets hope they keep them up, Chinchilli Day created for VisitLasVegas.com by R&R Partners.

Just in case you didn’t already know, David Bowie has a spider named after him.

“The Heteropoda davidbowie is distinguished by its large size and yellow hair, and is only found in parts of Malaysia.”

more at the Telegraph

We would have rather seen Alpacas.

via, BWE

via, the whoa!

The Giant Armadillo

“Although it is difficult to tell its size from this photo, the giant armadillo deserves its name and can weigh up to about 32 kilograms (71 pounds) in the wild! With its impressive weight and enormous elongated front claws, it digs out and eats termite and ant colonies. Unfortunately, this animal has been extirpated from many parts of its range due to over-hunting and is now rare in most areas.

National Zoo scientists set up camera traps in a remote section of the Amazon rain forest to gather data about the variety of species that inhabit it. Learn more about the project here: nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MAB/research/ar…”

(thanks Hallie!)

Urlesque Announces A Day Without Cats on 9.9.09

You may (or may not) remember this from earlier this week.  Cats are the new monkeys.