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Two Frenchies strut through a shopping mall with their back ends swinging in perfect, unplanned unison like a tiny parade float with four legs each. It is physically impossible to watch this without your shoulders dropping two inches.
A young calf named Roo and a kitten named Kanga have become inseparable on a farm in Republic, Missouri, and the clip of them playing and cuddling has blown past 1.6 million views. Commenters are begging for five seasons of it, and honestly, same.
A Pennsylvania state park trail cam caught a crew of river otters throwing what the park service itself called a "pre-sunrise rager," bouncing and rolling through the snow at full volume. The park's official apology to nearby campers is the single funniest thing a government agency has posted all year.
Merlin, the little duck in the Mexico jersey and custom socks, is still making the rounds after his World Cup superstardom, waddling the streets alongside his person. He got named an official ambassador for Mexico City, which is the correct amount of honor for a duck in sports apparel.
Two goldens named Lily and Lady suit up in butterfly wings alongside a very small human in matching wings, and then proceed to prance around like they know exactly how magical they look. Sixty-five thousand people hit like, and every one of them was right.
