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![Kangaroo Congratulates Paraglider's Safe Landing With A Hearty Punch](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/yoa8hseyeo4s3rfoiscj.png)
![The Westminster Dog Show Is The Past And Future Of Obsessive Dog Ownership<em></em>](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/mfn387ellooqqhwkc0rf.jpg)
![Seal Slaps The Bejesus Out Of Kayaker With Live Octopus](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/mejrf7boyz7w77ngwlts.jpg)
Seal Slaps The Bejesus Out Of Kayaker With Live Octopus
There you are, in your boat, kayaking, in the water, in New Zealand or whatever. Here it comes, a seal! Or is it a sea lion? Does this matter? More on that later. What does it have in its—oh. It’s an octopus! What......
![Wily Fox Steals Golf Ball Right Off The Green](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
Wily Fox Steals Golf Ball Right Off The Green
Golfers are used to having to contend with environmental hazards, from violent winds, to prehistoric swamp monsters, to fires spewed forth from the bowels of the earth. During one recent round in Massachusetts, golf aficionado Daniel Adams was confronted with the added challenge of a thieving fox. A...
![Let The Escaped Animals Just Be Wild Animals](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/iwtrbsfgmw47kkgiokt9.jpg)
Let The Escaped Animals Just Be Wild Animals
The law should be: Once an escaped non-pet animal has been on the loose long enough for the local news to show up and get it on video, it has claimed its freedom and gets to be a wild animal after that. You may transport it to its natural habitat if you want to and are able to do it safely and human...
![Goats On The Lam](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/m1vmnlor51plch1defe9.png)
Goats On The Lam
This morning, residents in Boise, Idaho, woke up to approximately 75 marauding goats roaming from house to house, eating everything in their path like a plague of slow-moving, adorable locusts....
![This Is The World's Ugliest Dog<em></em>](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/cyglmmz7dkhatbmzbxoq.jpg)
This Is The World's Ugliest Dog<em></em>
The Sonoma-Marin Fair hosted its annual World’s Ugliest Dog Contest this past weekend, and no pooch could beat out Zsa Zsa for top honors. Zsa Zsa is a testament to the horrifying process of inbreeding that sapped the English bulldog gene pool of its diversity, but at least she got first prize! Here...
![Kangaroo On The Field Is Great At Running, Atrocious At Kicking The Ball](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/o3utbr3pnf9aovfqke9x.gif)
Kangaroo On The Field Is Great At Running, Atrocious At Kicking The Ball
This here kangaroo showed up to an Australian women’s Premier League match over the weekend and put together an impressive minute or so of tape. Our pal apparently wandered around the field for about 20 minutes, dozed off, hopped a few fences, and flashed some impressive top-level speed. However, hi...
![One Mountain Biker Dead, Another Injured After Scariest Possible Cougar Attack](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/zm6okogbx6vlkizlndte.jpg)
One Mountain Biker Dead, Another Injured After Scariest Possible Cougar Attack
On Saturday, two men were mountain biking about 30 miles east of Seattle in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains when they encountered a cougar. Authorities say Isaac Sederbaum and S.J. Brooks did everything right: they dismounted their bikes, stood their ground, and yelled at the animal. After it...
![Dinosaur-Sized Gator Enjoys Casual Stroll On The Golf Course With His Friends The Deer](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/ssropanyyzt6czpink88.jpg)
Dinosaur-Sized Gator Enjoys Casual Stroll On The Golf Course With His Friends The Deer
It’s big boy season on Fripp Island, South Carolina. Even the local deer populace respects it....
![PGA Tour Event Made Much Cooler By Crew Of Fun-Loving Gators](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/db3zlkwougyvvaronu9a.jpg)
PGA Tour Event Made Much Cooler By Crew Of Fun-Loving Gators
The Zurich Classic’s being played this weekend down in Louisiana, and the tournament features a few hundred golfers (okay) and approximately 20 alligators (great!). This little buddy was kind of interrupted by a Talor Gooch shot, and they tried to scare him off by throwing a rake towards him. He ate...
![Watermelons, Cower In Fear At Your Mighty New Crocodile God](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
Watermelons, Cower In Fear At Your Mighty New Crocodile God
All hail the mighty Elvis, a 52-year-old crocodile in the Australian Reptile Park of Somersby, Australia, and my new God....
![These Are The Animal Wranglers Behind The Internet's Only Good Twitter Account](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/gtrxykmkejuiybukkb9w.png)
These Are The Animal Wranglers Behind The Internet's Only Good Twitter Account
SAN FRANCISCO—Alabama Street runs north through the heart of the Mission, from Bernal Heights Park, past the city’s best burrito spot on 24th, all the way up to 16th Street, when its name changes, for one block, and it becomes Rescue Row. The bulk of the city’s animal outreach and rescue organizatio...