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]]>Rockalina has been kept captive since 1977 when a boy playing outside his New York home found her and brought her home with him. His family kept her as a pet for nearly 50 years, where she lived on a tiled kitchen floor, mostly living on cat food and lettuce.
The lack of rough outdoor terrains significantly impacted her health and physical appearance. She had pale skin, overgrown claws, and was missing a tail when she was brought in at the Garden State Tortoise, and its founder Chris Leone was afraid she was beyond recovery.
Luckily, he was wrong, and Rockalina was brought back to life after being placed under a veterinarian’s care, receiving antibiotics and a meal made of soft, mushed-up foods. Leone captured her journey to full recovery on social media and broke the internet with a video that shows her basking in the sun for the first time in decades. He also advised anyone who encounters an eastern box turtle in the wild to leave it where it is, because it’s already home.
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]]>The post Sweet Puppy Snuggles Finds His Way Back to His Owner 11 Years Later appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Snuggles ran away from home 11 years ago while Epperson was helping her grandson move into a new home. Her attempts to find him were fruitless, and she lost all hope several months later, especially when winter rolled around because Snuggles never liked the cold.
Things took a wild turn over a decade later when Epperson’s daughter Chantel Stroud received a call from the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter. They informed her that someone had dropped Snuggles off at the shelter, and they decided to contact Stroud after scanning him for a microchip and realizing it was registered in her name.
Epperson was in a state of shock after receiving the good news from her daughter, and she’s looking forward to spending time with Snuggles after their long-awaited reunion.
“I just never thought I would ever see him again. I Googled it, and he can live up to 18 years old. So, I have another 4 to 5 good years to snuggle Snuggles,” Epperson told WKBW-TV.
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]]>The post The Dancing Cat’s Art Captures Silly Side of Our Feline Companions appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Shelman is a talented illustrator from Baltimore, who pursued her passion for art at the Rhode Island School of Design. All of her creations are originally drawn by hand before being scanned and digitally colored, and her art these days is created with “the moderately crazy cat lovers” in mind.
Shelman’s cat Brooksy is her biggest muse, but her illustrations celebrate the endless beauty of the feline world at large.
“Inspired by their fat plump shapes and seal-like bodies, we’ve found cats to be the perfect form of self-expression. From cats doing ‘cat things’ to more human activities, our art hopes to capture & stir the same love and passion for cats & art that you experience, often in a whimsical or unique manner,” she writes on her official website.
In addition to sharing her art with over 120,000 cat lovers on Instagram and selling greeting cards, prints, stickers, and other gifts inspired by her illustrations, Shelman also published a book titled Life Lessons I’ve Learned from My Cat.
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]]>The post Irene Meniconi is Drawing Fish in the Most Spectacular Light appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Meniconi is an Italian artist, who moved from Florence to Chianti at a pretty young age, and its natural beauty shaped the rest of her artistic journey for the years to come. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and started experimenting in the realm of mixed media, mostly focusing on realistic pen drawing.
According to her official website, “Irene has lived in close contact with nature [since childhood], immersing herself in it, experimenting and shaping through her psyche everything that has to do with the Earth, with matter, with mystery, fantasy, and creativity.”
Meniconi enjoys immersing herself in nature through her art, and we’ve seen her celebrate the endless beauty of many species through her body of work, from birds and horses to insects and reptiles.
She caught our eye with her incredibly realistic fish illustrations that perfectly capture the elusive beauty of these marine animals. She has a soft spot for betta fish, and we’ve seen her use her artistic talent to celebrate the incredible diversity of this species.
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]]>The post 5 Fun Facts About Dragonflies That Will Leave You Speechless appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Dragonflies have often served as a muse for innovators, inspiring many new technologies with their expert flying abilities. They’re among the world’s fastest flying insects and can reach a speed of up to 35 miles per hour, flying in six different directions.
Another fascinating fact about dragonflies is that they spend most of their lives underwater. They are adapted for aquatic life, especially during their early years, with babies usually spending two years underwater after hatching.
Eyes are another compelling part of dragonflies’ anatomy. They’re made up of around 30,000 tiny facets that can all see independently, with a nearly 360-degree field of view.
Since they happen to be expert hunters, dragonflies are actually pretty beneficial to people. A single dragonfly can eat up to 100 mosquitoes per day, helping control the populations of pest insects.
Dragonflies have a unique mating process, and the wheel position they take while trying to reproduce has often been compared to the shape of a heart.
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]]>The post 5 Mind-Blowing Facts About Frilled Lizards appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Frilled lizards are native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea, and they’re the only member of their genus Chlamydosaurus, a Latin word that can be translated as “cloaked wizard”.
Frilled lizards are known as arboreal creatures because they spend 90% of their time in trees, only leaving to feed, interact with other lizards, and travel to a new tree.
The frills of these wizards usually have red, orange, yellow, or white coloration, determined by several factors, including their place of origin, carotenoids and pteridine pigments, and steroid hormones.
These lizards have a disc-shaped frill that can reach over four times the length of the animal’s torso. They’re a part of their defense mechanism system because they can use it to intimidate predators.
Female frilled lizards can lay up to 20 tiny eggs in an underground nest, and the babies can hatch and become independent after several months, capable of hunting and utilizing their frills.
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]]>The post Moritz Schmid is Transforming Mushrooms Into Dreamy Works of Art appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Moritz has been a huge nature lover from an early age, and love for mushrooms has followed him since his childhood years. He explored his passion further by becoming a mushroom coach at the German Society for Mycology and getting a certificate to become a course instructor at the German Academy for Forest Bathing and Health.
“I immerse myself almost every day in the fascinating world of mushrooms and let myself be inspired by the magic of the forest… I want to infect you with my enthusiasm for mushrooms and create a space where you can experience nature in a whole new way,” he writes on his official website.
Schmid made quite a splash with his works of art that see him arranging mushrooms into fascinating displays and attracted over 50,000 followers to his Instagram page. He also enjoys hosting workshops and retreats for other mushroom lovers in the Berlin area and taking them into the woods to discover the magical world of fungi by his side.
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]]>The post Thousands of Wiener Dogs Gathered for the Southwold Sausage Walk appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>The Southwold Sausage Walk organizers expected 500 to show up to this year’s event, but the number of dachshunds in attendance exceeded 1,000. In addition to the British wiener dog owners, people from all around the world gathered on the English coast, bringing their adorable pups along.
Laura Baggott has been organizing the event since 2017, and she’s happy to see it grow into such a huge sensation, while still keeping its friendly atmosphere.
“It’s such a good atmosphere and because it’s built over the years we now have stalls, we have music, we have a big raffle… You see so many people who now know each other. Nobody is really left out, we all get to know each other. It’s just like a friends’ day out,” she told BBC.
Back in 2022, this event set an unofficial record for the world’s biggest gathering of dogs of any single breed, with 2,238 pups in attendance. Baggott is hoping they’ll officially break that record when the event reaches its 10th anniversary, and maybe even have a statue of a sausage dog built in Southwold.
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]]>The post Man Captures a Video of a Kangaroo Performing an Epic Jump appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>An Australian landscaper named Nathan Xuebsy was recently doing some work in a town named Beveridge, near Melbourne. At one point, he and his fellow workers noticed a kangaroo casually walking past them and into an empty patch of land surrounded by a tall gate.
Wanting to help the animal continue its journey, the workers opened up one of the gates. However, the kangaroo wasn’t interested in using it. Instead, it simply jumped on the fence and used it to gain footing for another jump.
After recovering from amazement, Xuebsy and his colleagues rushed to check in on the kangaroo. It turned out that the animal was completely fine and was joyfully hopping away.
Xuebsy managed to capture the entire thing on video and later shared it on his social media alongside a screenshot of the kangaroo at its highest point.
“I took a screenshot of the video when the kangaroo was at its highest,” Xuebsy said in a chat with Australian media outlet 9 News. “I put it on Facebook and said I think I just took the best photo I ever will in my life.”
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]]>The post Fun Facts About Bats You Probably Didn’t Know appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Wherever you find yourself on Earth, there is a high chance that at least one of 1,300 bat species is living there. Bats are found in all parts of the world except extreme deserts and polar regions.
If you spent your whole life thinking bats are blind, we don’t blame you. This is arguably one of the most popular myths about animals out there. But the truth is that bats actually can see pretty well, and some species have better sight than humans. This, alongside their superb hearing, allows them to navigate in complete darkness.
This one might change your opinion on bats. Bats mostly feed on insects and bugs, helping to keep their population in check. This is particularly the case with mosquitoes, with one bat being able to consume more than 1,000 of these pesky insects in an hour. On top of that, they help pollinate over 300 species of fruit.
The largest bat species is the giant golden-crowned flying fox, which lives in the Philippines and has a wingspan of almost 6 feet. On the other hand, the smallest species is the Kitti’s hog-nosed bat, also known as the bumblebee bat, which weighs less than a penny and can fit on the tip of a human finger.
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]]>The post Eastern Box Turtle Feels the Sun for the First Time After Being Kept Captive for 50 Years appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Rockalina has been kept captive since 1977 when a boy playing outside his New York home found her and brought her home with him. His family kept her as a pet for nearly 50 years, where she lived on a tiled kitchen floor, mostly living on cat food and lettuce.
The lack of rough outdoor terrains significantly impacted her health and physical appearance. She had pale skin, overgrown claws, and was missing a tail when she was brought in at the Garden State Tortoise, and its founder Chris Leone was afraid she was beyond recovery.
Luckily, he was wrong, and Rockalina was brought back to life after being placed under a veterinarian’s care, receiving antibiotics and a meal made of soft, mushed-up foods. Leone captured her journey to full recovery on social media and broke the internet with a video that shows her basking in the sun for the first time in decades. He also advised anyone who encounters an eastern box turtle in the wild to leave it where it is, because it’s already home.
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]]>The post Sweet Puppy Snuggles Finds His Way Back to His Owner 11 Years Later appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Snuggles ran away from home 11 years ago while Epperson was helping her grandson move into a new home. Her attempts to find him were fruitless, and she lost all hope several months later, especially when winter rolled around because Snuggles never liked the cold.
Things took a wild turn over a decade later when Epperson’s daughter Chantel Stroud received a call from the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter. They informed her that someone had dropped Snuggles off at the shelter, and they decided to contact Stroud after scanning him for a microchip and realizing it was registered in her name.
Epperson was in a state of shock after receiving the good news from her daughter, and she’s looking forward to spending time with Snuggles after their long-awaited reunion.
“I just never thought I would ever see him again. I Googled it, and he can live up to 18 years old. So, I have another 4 to 5 good years to snuggle Snuggles,” Epperson told WKBW-TV.
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]]>The post The Dancing Cat’s Art Captures Silly Side of Our Feline Companions appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Shelman is a talented illustrator from Baltimore, who pursued her passion for art at the Rhode Island School of Design. All of her creations are originally drawn by hand before being scanned and digitally colored, and her art these days is created with “the moderately crazy cat lovers” in mind.
Shelman’s cat Brooksy is her biggest muse, but her illustrations celebrate the endless beauty of the feline world at large.
“Inspired by their fat plump shapes and seal-like bodies, we’ve found cats to be the perfect form of self-expression. From cats doing ‘cat things’ to more human activities, our art hopes to capture & stir the same love and passion for cats & art that you experience, often in a whimsical or unique manner,” she writes on her official website.
In addition to sharing her art with over 120,000 cat lovers on Instagram and selling greeting cards, prints, stickers, and other gifts inspired by her illustrations, Shelman also published a book titled Life Lessons I’ve Learned from My Cat.
The post The Dancing Cat’s Art Captures Silly Side of Our Feline Companions appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>The post Irene Meniconi is Drawing Fish in the Most Spectacular Light appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Meniconi is an Italian artist, who moved from Florence to Chianti at a pretty young age, and its natural beauty shaped the rest of her artistic journey for the years to come. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and started experimenting in the realm of mixed media, mostly focusing on realistic pen drawing.
According to her official website, “Irene has lived in close contact with nature [since childhood], immersing herself in it, experimenting and shaping through her psyche everything that has to do with the Earth, with matter, with mystery, fantasy, and creativity.”
Meniconi enjoys immersing herself in nature through her art, and we’ve seen her celebrate the endless beauty of many species through her body of work, from birds and horses to insects and reptiles.
She caught our eye with her incredibly realistic fish illustrations that perfectly capture the elusive beauty of these marine animals. She has a soft spot for betta fish, and we’ve seen her use her artistic talent to celebrate the incredible diversity of this species.
The post Irene Meniconi is Drawing Fish in the Most Spectacular Light appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>The post 5 Fun Facts About Dragonflies That Will Leave You Speechless appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Dragonflies have often served as a muse for innovators, inspiring many new technologies with their expert flying abilities. They’re among the world’s fastest flying insects and can reach a speed of up to 35 miles per hour, flying in six different directions.
Another fascinating fact about dragonflies is that they spend most of their lives underwater. They are adapted for aquatic life, especially during their early years, with babies usually spending two years underwater after hatching.
Eyes are another compelling part of dragonflies’ anatomy. They’re made up of around 30,000 tiny facets that can all see independently, with a nearly 360-degree field of view.
Since they happen to be expert hunters, dragonflies are actually pretty beneficial to people. A single dragonfly can eat up to 100 mosquitoes per day, helping control the populations of pest insects.
Dragonflies have a unique mating process, and the wheel position they take while trying to reproduce has often been compared to the shape of a heart.
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]]>The post 5 Mind-Blowing Facts About Frilled Lizards appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Frilled lizards are native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea, and they’re the only member of their genus Chlamydosaurus, a Latin word that can be translated as “cloaked wizard”.
Frilled lizards are known as arboreal creatures because they spend 90% of their time in trees, only leaving to feed, interact with other lizards, and travel to a new tree.
The frills of these wizards usually have red, orange, yellow, or white coloration, determined by several factors, including their place of origin, carotenoids and pteridine pigments, and steroid hormones.
These lizards have a disc-shaped frill that can reach over four times the length of the animal’s torso. They’re a part of their defense mechanism system because they can use it to intimidate predators.
Female frilled lizards can lay up to 20 tiny eggs in an underground nest, and the babies can hatch and become independent after several months, capable of hunting and utilizing their frills.
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]]>The post Moritz Schmid is Transforming Mushrooms Into Dreamy Works of Art appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Moritz has been a huge nature lover from an early age, and love for mushrooms has followed him since his childhood years. He explored his passion further by becoming a mushroom coach at the German Society for Mycology and getting a certificate to become a course instructor at the German Academy for Forest Bathing and Health.
“I immerse myself almost every day in the fascinating world of mushrooms and let myself be inspired by the magic of the forest… I want to infect you with my enthusiasm for mushrooms and create a space where you can experience nature in a whole new way,” he writes on his official website.
Schmid made quite a splash with his works of art that see him arranging mushrooms into fascinating displays and attracted over 50,000 followers to his Instagram page. He also enjoys hosting workshops and retreats for other mushroom lovers in the Berlin area and taking them into the woods to discover the magical world of fungi by his side.
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]]>The post Thousands of Wiener Dogs Gathered for the Southwold Sausage Walk appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>The Southwold Sausage Walk organizers expected 500 to show up to this year’s event, but the number of dachshunds in attendance exceeded 1,000. In addition to the British wiener dog owners, people from all around the world gathered on the English coast, bringing their adorable pups along.
Laura Baggott has been organizing the event since 2017, and she’s happy to see it grow into such a huge sensation, while still keeping its friendly atmosphere.
“It’s such a good atmosphere and because it’s built over the years we now have stalls, we have music, we have a big raffle… You see so many people who now know each other. Nobody is really left out, we all get to know each other. It’s just like a friends’ day out,” she told BBC.
Back in 2022, this event set an unofficial record for the world’s biggest gathering of dogs of any single breed, with 2,238 pups in attendance. Baggott is hoping they’ll officially break that record when the event reaches its 10th anniversary, and maybe even have a statue of a sausage dog built in Southwold.
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]]>The post Man Captures a Video of a Kangaroo Performing an Epic Jump appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>An Australian landscaper named Nathan Xuebsy was recently doing some work in a town named Beveridge, near Melbourne. At one point, he and his fellow workers noticed a kangaroo casually walking past them and into an empty patch of land surrounded by a tall gate.
Wanting to help the animal continue its journey, the workers opened up one of the gates. However, the kangaroo wasn’t interested in using it. Instead, it simply jumped on the fence and used it to gain footing for another jump.
After recovering from amazement, Xuebsy and his colleagues rushed to check in on the kangaroo. It turned out that the animal was completely fine and was joyfully hopping away.
Xuebsy managed to capture the entire thing on video and later shared it on his social media alongside a screenshot of the kangaroo at its highest point.
“I took a screenshot of the video when the kangaroo was at its highest,” Xuebsy said in a chat with Australian media outlet 9 News. “I put it on Facebook and said I think I just took the best photo I ever will in my life.”
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]]>The post Fun Facts About Bats You Probably Didn’t Know appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Wherever you find yourself on Earth, there is a high chance that at least one of 1,300 bat species is living there. Bats are found in all parts of the world except extreme deserts and polar regions.
If you spent your whole life thinking bats are blind, we don’t blame you. This is arguably one of the most popular myths about animals out there. But the truth is that bats actually can see pretty well, and some species have better sight than humans. This, alongside their superb hearing, allows them to navigate in complete darkness.
This one might change your opinion on bats. Bats mostly feed on insects and bugs, helping to keep their population in check. This is particularly the case with mosquitoes, with one bat being able to consume more than 1,000 of these pesky insects in an hour. On top of that, they help pollinate over 300 species of fruit.
The largest bat species is the giant golden-crowned flying fox, which lives in the Philippines and has a wingspan of almost 6 feet. On the other hand, the smallest species is the Kitti’s hog-nosed bat, also known as the bumblebee bat, which weighs less than a penny and can fit on the tip of a human finger.
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