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A golden retriever named Barley and a Pekin duck named Louie have built a genuine two-year friendship, waddling and bounding through gardens and puddles together for 200,000-plus Instagram followers. Viewers keep saying the same thing: it's the daily escape hatch from bad headlines.
Chickie wakes from a nap at Humane Broward, blinks in confusion, then absolutely detonates with tail wags the second she realizes someone came to see her — treats, kisses, and confident three-legged strutting follow. Timely too, with International Dog Day landing tomorrow.
Lambert is an orange tabby with a congenital facial difference — wide-set eyes, a flatter nose — and the internet has fallen completely, protectively in love with him. Millions of views, and the comment sections are unusually kind.
African elephant Mlilo delivered a healthy baby boy who was up and nursing within the hour, and the zoo's footage of the wobbly newcomer finding his feet is exactly the serotonin you came here for. Two hundred and thirty pounds of brand-new.
Emmelina Austin knelt at the gorilla enclosure at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo holding her sleeping five-week-old son, Canyon — and the gorilla mother on the other side came right up, transfixed. Two mothers, one pane of glass, zero words needed.
