Celebrity Critters

RIP Shirley Temple. Animal Crackers in my soup (not real animals!)

February 11, 2014

Our favourite Shirley Temple movie is the critter-filled Heidi. We especially love the scene where she tries to milk the cow and when she…

February 11, 2014

Meet Zoich, a symbol of Russian malcontent and here’s why he’s not a mascot in the Sochi Games. For the record, the Russian blue…

February 11, 2014

The first penguin hatched at the Calgary Zoo finally has a name – Una – as chosen by visitors to the facility. The zoo…

February 9, 2014

Toronto has been twice-denied the chance to host an Olympics, but that hasn’t stopped one the city’s biggest stars from putting on a gold…

February 9, 2014

Straight from the mouth of V. Putin we learn why the leopard, polar bear and hare were chosen mascots of the 2014 Sochi Winter…

February 8, 2014

Our man on the ground reports: Healthy puppy sleeping on the warm rubble of a brand new subdivision in Sochi.

February 3, 2014

Woken up at 7:28 a.m. on Groundhog Day, Punxsutawney Phil was grumpy and chewed up all the top hats that were surrounding him. Nah,…

February 3, 2014

A snowy owl that had wandered out of its natural environment and into downtown Washington D.C. is recovering in a rehabilitation centre after being…

February 2, 2014

Take a cute labrador puppy, pair the dog up with a Clydesdale horse, add in a Budweiser hat-wearing farmer and a critter-loving neighbour and…

February 2, 2014

It’s a Critterful weekend at the Superbowl. We did an earlier post about Seahawks and here’s our post about broncos. If you buck and you’re…