Behold the Aquatic Perambulator – A Device That Lets You Take Your Fish for a Walk
Seven years ago, when Mike Warren-Madden worried that his pet fish Malcolm was getting bored, he decided to do something about it. He spent weeks at the drawing board, designing a unique device – an Aquatic Perambulator – that would allow him to take his fish for a walk. The pram helped Malcolm live a […]
Share a Coffee with Snakes and Scorpions at Vietnam’s Popular Pet Cafe
If you love dogs, cats and cute, cuddly bunnies, then Vietnam’s Pet Café is certainly not the place for you. It exists to serve a totally different kind of animal lover. Located in the capital city of Hanoi, the café has an awesome collection of snakes, rats, lizards, tarantulas and even a few hedgehogs, stored […]
Bug Fan Keeps Tens of Thousands of Cockroaches as Pets
Kyle Kandilian, a 20-year-old student from Dearborn, Michigan, has a very unusual hobby – he enjoys raising cockroaches as pets. His bedroom walls are decked with boxes and crates which hold around 200,000 roaches he breeds for fun and profit. Kyle’s passion is probably going to bug a lot of people, seeing as most people […]
Spanish Town Mails Dog Poo Back to Their Owners
Sick of having to clean up after irresponsible dog owners, authorities in Brunete, a small town 20 miles west of Madrid, came up with an ingenious way to keep the streets clean. They started sending the dog poo back to their owners in boxes marked “Lost Property”. The council of Brunete had not approved a […]
Fashionable Chicken Pets Wear Diapers and Colorful Outfits
Statistics show a growing number of American families are replacing cats and dogs with chicken as household pets, so I guess it’s no wonder we’re starting to see things like chicken outfits, diapers and saddles being sold online. Julie Baker is the owner of Pampered Chickens, an online business that sells a variety of accessories […]
Chinese Boy Has Been Living and Sleeping with a Python for 13 Years
A family from Dongguan, China, has recently made headlines after it became known that their 13-year-old son’s best friend is a 15-foot Burmese python. The predator even looks after the boy when his parents are away. Most grownups would turn away and run for their lives at the sight of a 220lb python, but 13-year-old Azhe […]
Welcome to the World’s Most Controversial Pet Shop
NOAH: The Inner City Zoo is a Japanese pet shop condemned by animal activists for caging and selling penguins, meerkats, alligators, monkeys and other exotic animals. Located in a cramped room, on the second floor of an office building in Yokohama, NOAH: The Inner City Zoo is hardly the kind of place you’d think of keeping exotic animals. […]
Dutch Artist Turns Dead Cat into Remote-Controlled Helicopter
Like many other animal lovers, Dutch artist Bart Jansen found it hard to part with his pet cat, Orville, after he was hit by a car. So he decided to turn the dead feline into a unique piece of artwork called the Orvillecopter. Jansen named his beloved pet after the famous aviator Orville Wright, so […]
Woman Postpones Wedding to Pay for Pet Lizard’s Chemotherapy
Lizards creep me out big-time. That’s why it’s a little hard for me to understand what 25-year-old Lizzie Griffiths, a lizard-loving school teacher from London did for her little dragon. She loves her pet lizard George so much that she wakes up at 5.30 am every day to snuggle with him for a while. She’s […]
Man Chooses Pet Buffalo as Best Man at Vow Renewal Ceremony
People who renew their wedding vows will generally go to any lengths to get everything right the second time around. So this man from Quinlan, Texas, thought things through and realized that no one could make a better best man than Wildthing, his pet buffalo. A 2008 picture of the ceremony shows Ronald Bridges and […]
Amazing Indian Girl Is Friends with Six King Cobras
India has long been known as the land of the snake charmers. But here’s something very unusual. An 8-year-old Indian girl who plays all day not with other girls, but with her pet King Cobras. Kajol Khan lives in the village of Ghatampur in Uttar Pradesh, with her parents, six sisters, two brothers and six […]
World’s Most Expensive Sheep Is Worth over $2 Million
This whole economic boom is just making China weirder with each passing day. Just last week I read they inaugurated their first gold-dispensing machine and now the country’s big bosses are paying millions of dollars for sheep. Dolan sheep, to be exact, a rare breed which according to breeders has very special features that make it the […]
World’s First 7-Star Pet Resort Opens in Dubai
Urban Tails Dubai, the world’s first seven-star resort for pets, was inaugurated this summer and owners say it was such a big hit they’ve been full all season. Just think of this place like an equivalent of Burj al Arab for cats and dogs. It was created by Irish ex-pat Aideen O’Mara who moved to […]
Pet Designer Makes the Most Adorable Animal Hats
Like to torment your pet, do you? Than you’re going to get a kick out of Amelie Segarceanu’s extensive collection of cat and dog headgear. Amelie, from Atlanta, Georgia, is a hat designer who apparently likes to play dress-up with animals. She creates funny headgear for cats and dogs and sells them to animal lovers […]
Jeweler Immortalizes Pet Snouts and Paws into Fashion Accessories
Jewel artist Jackie Kaufman has sniffed out a way to help pet owners keep they’re beloved companions close even after they’ve left this world. She creates beautiful sterling silver jewelry based on molds of animal snouts and paws. Jackie creates all kinds of beautiful accessories, all of which you can see at her Etsy shop, […]