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Instead of scolding her barking pup, this owner turned and scolded the vacuum — "Eh eh! You be nice to my dog" — and Bowie immediately sat down, vindicated and calm. It's kicked off a whole TikTok trend of people defending their dogs from scary household appliances.
A dog named Indi howls along to piano notes and nails the pitch every single time, note after note after note. Her owner's face when she realizes what's happening is worth the click all by itself.
Two little girls set out to gently release their butterflies into the wild, and the butterflies had extremely different plans. What follows is a joyful, flailing, completely unscripted comedy of errors.
A pet duck in a green Mexico jersey and custom socks waddled down Reforma Avenue and out-charmed every official World Cup mascot in the country. He has since had a formal audience with the president of Mexico, which is a sentence I will never tire of saying.
An orphaned baby macaque at a Japanese zoo found comfort clinging to a stuffed IKEA orangutan, and the whole internet fell apart over it. The zoo reports he's healthy and playing normally with the troop — and the plushie sold out worldwide.
