Animal Action Stars Cafe

by Joe Mackin

I don't know where that is, unfortunately. Alberta Oil Peon thinks it might be the Bow River in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. This picture shows the Bow River with the same crystal-blue color.

A new kind of ski looks like small snowboards you wear, one on each foot.

Awww, how can you be mad at him...?

Happy dog prance.

Little crab makes a Man Cave.

Mama ape kissing baby ape.

Funky bird.

Cat practicing to be in a nineties action movie. Maybe that reference is too obscure. I just remember that sometime during the nineties, someone watched a John Woo movie, and suddenly every hero was sliding across the floor while shooting a gun.

Speaking of action movies -- this dog is a SEAL. He's about to take out a sentry.

Approaching the precious object in a thief-like way.

The cat made its Stealth roll.

Scared little puppy tries barking to warn bigger dogs away, but he's just not very intimidating yet.

I need to be on you.

Me trying to find enough cute animal videos for a Cafe.

Did someone say "Friday"?

Very cute. Bella was rescued from an abusive backyard breeding situation. She became a companion/protector to a blind dog who was rescued with her.

Because her babies were taken from her too quickly, she has an unsatisfied/frustrated mothering instinct. She now mothers any small animals her owners bring into the house, especially bunnies.

She gets to feel like a mom a lot now.

This week I posted video of an elephant who kept stopping trucks to grab stuff they were carrying -- I think it might have just been tall grass -- to eat off them like they were snack trucks.

He stopped a lot of trucks. This wasn't a one-off; he had chosen this as his new foraging strategy.

It turns out that he's not the only elephant who has thought of this:

I bet people whose job is to be caretakers to pandas live about 10 years longer than average.

posted by Ace at 08:00 PM

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