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Japanese politician tries to teach teenage girl a valuable lesson by giving her a dying pigeon
- Casey Baseel
Mar 13, 2018 - Tweet
Others saw a grievously injured pigeon. He saw the most insane way possible to impart wisdom to Japan’s young people.
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Japanese company’s fashion hoods let you add cute cat ears…to your cat
- Casey Baseel
Mar 8, 2018
Putting a cat hat on a cat.
- Japan
- (animal cosplay • animal fashion • animals • cats • cute • fashion • funny • pets • weird)
Tour Akita Prefecture from the back of an Akita Inu Dog with Google’s adorable doggie Street View
- Casey Baseel
Mar 6, 2018
The adorable breed of dogs introduces the Internet to its home in Japan’s northern Akita Prefecture.
Russia’s gold medal-winning skater gets a dog from Japan, picks an unusual Japanese name for it
- Casey Baseel
Mar 5, 2018
Alina Zagitova wants to give her new Akita Inu a name that means “victory,” but there’s one thing she might be overlooking.
- Japan, Russia
- (Akita Inu • animals • dogs • figure skating • Japanese language • linguistics • Olympics • pets • skating • sports)
Japan’s most famous cat island moving towards plan to spay, neuter all of its kitty inhabitants
- Casey Baseel
Feb 24, 2018
Aging, shrinking human population says it can no longer take care of all of the frisky felines.
Bull suddenly rams into a sedan at railroad crossing in China, captured on video
- Master Blaster
Feb 14, 2018
If you think you’re having a bad day today, one motorist probably has you beat.
Stray cat in Japanese mountains guides visiting humans out of woods in the dark of night【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 7, 2018
Kind-hearted feline proves to be more useful than blank-screen car navigation system.
Stay warm this winter by assembling a veritable Voltron of animal “body warmers”
- Scott Wilson
Jan 26, 2018
Fight the cold with the help of some furry friends.
Japanese cat somehow manages to lose fight with snowman, still wins Internet’s heart【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 25, 2018
It’s hard to get beat by an inanimate, frozen foe, but then again it’s also hard to be this cute.
Japan now has heart hats for cute cats to wear this Valentine’s Day
- Oona McGee
Jan 12, 2018
Who needs a bunch of flowers when you can have these four little Valentines?
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Touching Twitter manga shows how all the bad things about having a cat make having one wonderful
- Casey Baseel
Jan 11, 2018
Illustrations show that sharing your life with a feline is one of our world’s happiest heartbreaks.
Sea urchins will fight over the same piece of cabbage, Japan is adorably shocked to learn
- Casey Baseel
Dec 15, 2017
Ordinarily inactive creatures will tug like two dogs who want the same bone.
Japanese Twitter-user shares video captured of “the world’s longest cat”, Internet is impressed
- Meg Murphy
Dec 7, 2017
Cat‘s got our tongue, and has us all tricked!
Cute twin cats lavishing love on each other is the sweetest thing you’ll see today【Pics & Videos】
- Oona McGee
Dec 6, 2017
The relationship between these two cosy cats is warming hearts around the country.
【Monday Kickstart】See the silly kitty and more vying for the prize in the “Pet Bragging Contest”
- Krista Rogers
Dec 4, 2017
This particular kitty seems to be a disciple of Maru’s “If I fits, I sits” School of How to Cat.
Man in Osaka lures housecat into street with food before shooting at it with BB gun【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 27, 2017
Owner asks for Internet’s help in tracking down man behind drive-by attack.
Christmas cat capsule toy hats from Japan will make your holiday feline festivities jolly
- Casey Baseel
Nov 15, 2017
♪Santa Cat is coming to town♪
- Japan
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Over 1,000 fish and other marine creatures die at Tokyo aquarium after failed medical treatment
- Casey Baseel
Nov 14, 2017
Heartbreaking loss of life occurs at one of the city’s most popular aquariums.
Crowdfunding for memorial statue for Japan’s otaku penguin shut down as zoo denies involvement
- Casey Baseel
Nov 14, 2017
Facility where Grape-kun spent his days with his anime crush says it has no plans for a statue, hasn’t given permission for an installation.
- Japan
- (animals • anime • crowdfunding • Grape-kun • Kenomo Friends • otaku • penguins • statues • Tobu Zoo • zoos)
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