Pillowpillowpillow

Created by Aaron Stewart and Hornet Toys, this line of comfy, cozy pillows features our first edition designs of bow-wow-beautiful doggies and purrrfectly snuggle-worthy kitties.

PillowPillowPillows make a great gift for family, friends and you (why not give yourself a bone?). They appeal to pet lovers of every age, from cat-crazy kids to pooch-loving grandmas.

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Video: Drunk Squirrel Climbs Tree

After eating too much fermented pumpkin this drunk squirrel is the definition of a party animal!

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Video: Dancing Horse

We've seen dancing dogs - but this video is of a dancing horse: The WEG2006 Freestyle Dressage Final performance of Andreas Helgstrand on Blue Hors Matine.
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FDA Approves First Medication to Treat and Prevent Vomiting in Dogs

Pfizer Animal Health (PAH) announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Cerenia™ (maropitant citrate), the first medication to prevent and treat acute vomiting in dogs. This first-in-class drug has been proven to be a safe and effective medication that veterinarians can use to control emesis (vomiting), quickly and effectively, regardless of the cause, including motion sickness.

Vomiting is one of the most common reasons owners take their dogs to the veterinarian. According to Pfizer Animal Health market research, veterinarians see on average 30 cases of vomiting per month, with an estimated 2.8 million dogs experiencing vomiting each year in the U.S. In addition, another 1.2 million dogs suffer from vomiting caused by motion sickness.

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Connection seen between animal abuse, human violence

More than 90 percent of serial killers in the U.S. admitted to having abused animals at some point in their lives.

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has been compiling data on the connection between animal cruelty and human violence for the past 20 years.

Among the most infamous serial killers who admitted to abusing animals were the Son of Sam, Ted Bundy, the Boston Strangler and Jeffrey Dahmer, according to Arnold Baer, HSUS director of field services.

Baer told The Sun that the Animal Defenders of Yuma brought him to speak at Arizona Western College Tuesday night to reach audiences of different professionals to stress the importance of paying attention to animal abuse and pooling resources to ensure kids hurting animals are given counseling, so they do not grow up to commit criminal violence against people.

"A much higher percentage of violent criminals have had animal abuse in their backgrounds than those that don't," said Baer of studies done on incarcerated criminals.

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Best Friends: Tiger, Orangutan Babies

A pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become inseparable playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their natural jungle habitat in Indonesia's tropical rainforests.

The friendship between 5-month-old female baby primates Nia and Irma, and cubs Dema and Manis, has blossomed at the Taman Safari zoo where they share a room in the nursery.

After being abandoned by their mothers shortly after birth, the four play fight, nipping and teasing each other, and cuddling up for a shared nap when they are worn out.

"This is unusual and would never happen in the wild," said zoo keeper Sri Suwarni, bottle-feeding a baby chimp on Wednesday. "Like human babies, they only want to play."

The four have lived side-by-side for a month without a single act of hostility, she said.

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Antarctic ice melt reveals exotic creatures

Spindly orange sea stars, fan-finned ice fish and herds of roving sea cucumbers are among the exotic creatures spied off the Antarctic coast in an area formerly covered by ice, scientists reported Sunday.

This is the first time explorers have been able to catalog wildlife where two mammoth ice shelves used to extend for some 3,900 square miles over the Weddell Sea.

At least 5,000 years old, the ice shelves collapsed in two stages over the last dozen years. One crumbled 12 years ago and the other followed in 2002.

Global warming is seen as the culprit behind the ice shelves' demise, said Gauthier Chapelle of the Polar Foundation in Brussels.

"These kind of collapses are expected to happen more," he said. "What we're observing here is probably going to happen elsewhere around Antarctica."

Melting ice shelves are not expected to directly contribute much to global sea level rise, but glaciologists believe these vast swaths of ice act like dams to slow down glaciers as they move over the Antarctic land mass toward the coast. Without the ice shelves, glaciers may move over the water more quickly, and this would substantially add to rising seas.

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