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Finland's public broadcaster Yle has a 24/7 livestream called Pentulive, and this season it's Hilkka the Lagotto Romagnolo and the six puppies she had on October 10th — four boys, two girls, all wiggle. Millions of people are watching them sleep and snuffle instead of doomscrolling, and honestly, correct call.
On a farm in Republic, Missouri, a calf named Roo and a kitten named Kanga have decided they're the same species and nobody can tell them otherwise. The clip of them cuddling and tumbling together has cleared 1.6 million views, and the comments are all begging for a spinoff series.
Jimothy, the unusually compact Ballard raccoon with short-spine syndrome, went viral in July and never left. This month cartoonist Matthew Inman and his brother built a towering animatronic raccoon called Grimothy on Bainbridge Island in his honor, which is the most Pacific Northwest sentence ever written.
LouLou, a four-year-old poodle-husky mix, got separated from her mountaineers by an avalanche in Alaska's Chugach State Park. A helicopter crew tracked her AirTag and found her standing in the snow more than fifty hours later with a broken toe and a missing tooth — otherwise completely fine.
A golden retriever named Murphy has a wild squirrel friend named Chippy who visits him at the glass door. This time Chippy showed up with her baby, as if to introduce them. I was not emotionally prepared.
