The Animal Blog

I few years ago, I posted this video of Twiggy on my old blog. Needless to say, I was utterly amazed by his talents and wanted to share it with the world (the world meaning the 1-2 people that would actually visit my blog-- including myself).

Whenever I would see anyone water skiing, I would always break out the obligatory "Man, that guy (girl) has got nothing on Twiggy! Twiggy is king of the watersports!"

Buy sadly and to my disillusionment, I recently came across this tragic video.

No... Twiggy didn't go for a shower. He just couldn't hang with the water ski!

Sad, sad day.

Note: I don't believe that this water skiing Twiggy is any relation to surfing Twiggy.

Ark City? Oh...! Arkansas City.

Wait... Arkansas City?

Anyway, there was a photographer in the right place at the right time in Arkansas City.

The picture above was taken by Donita Clausen, a photographer for The Arkansas City Traveler.

The white furred, pink eyed, and yet unnamed squirrel has claimed residence in a local resident's back yard.

For the complete article on the Ark City Albino, click on the link below:
http://www.arkcity.net/stories/071806/com_0001.shtml

Albino animals are very unusual not only for their skin discoloration, but because of their short life expectancy. Squirrels in general are susceptible to a variety of prey: cats, dogs, hawks, eagles, owls, snakes, racoons, etc... The contrast of their white fur between any environment makes them even more prone to attack.

What in the world is going on in London?

For the second time in two months, a rare monkey has been stolen from a zoo near London.

This time, it was a Brazilian Squirrel Monkey named Spongebob. Spongebob was stolen during a night time raid of the Chessington World of Adventures near London.

The article from the Telegraph also makes reference to an incident last month where two other endangered monkeys were snatched during another night time raid. It also refers to an incident in December of 2005 in which a baby penguin was stolen.

Click on the link below for the entire article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/18/umonkey.xml

If you don't remember who Bob Ross, he's the famous television painter. Well known for his soothing voice, puffy white clouds, and equally puffy hair.

What's he doing with a baby squirrel... Who knows?

But this video will melt your heart.

Digyourowngrave.com has posted an article about animals living together:
Crazy Interspecies Animal Friends!

They've got a good list going there including:

• dogs and squirrel
• hippo and turtle
• kitty and rooster
• dog and ducklings
• tiger and piglets
• cat and crow
• and, dog and fish

I'll contribute this to the mix, here's a picture of Missy's dog Skippy with a frog:

Don't worry, Skippy doesn't lick the frog. They just like to hang out.

A crazed squirrel on the loose is attacking people in Florida.

Authorities caught the animal which died shortly after. It's unknown if the squirrel had rabies.

Click on the link below to read the entire story on Yahoo news:
Squirrel attacks people in Fla. park

Even when staring directly into the face of death, this little squirrel will do whatever is necessary to get what he wants:

He's nuts!

Click here for more squirrel videos.

Many of you have probably grown to love Steve Carell's portrayal of an inept manager on "The Office"

You may be surprised to know that in reality Mr. Carell is actually quite knowledgeable concerning wildlife matters.

In the following video,he educates us on our mysterious friend the squirrel.

Is this squirrel playing dead or is the earth just moving really fast?

Check out this amazing squirrel obstacle course:

It's amazing what they'll go through for food.

In an amazing attempt at camouflage, this squirrel is seen playing dead in front of the camera.

Click here for more squirrel videos.