Good News This Week (For Animals)
Celebrating the mammals who can say they’ve had a good week.
Meet Your New Co-Workers
As humans become surplus to Earth’s requirements, dogs are rightly taking their place at the top of the food chain - and have now essentially become colleagues for those working at home. Rightly, this has been celebrated in the Dogs Working From Home Instagram account - which brings us the fine pooches. If only all Zooms could be like this.
Better than the Olympics
Top BBC sports commentator Andrew Cotter may have been denied going to the Olympics this summer - but that’s been a blessing for his labs Olive and Mabel, who are now the focus of Andrew’s immense vocals skills.
Olive and Mabel going head to head over who can polish off dinner fastest - or retain a plastic bone - are about the most fun you have have in a minute and a half.
Cat Quarantine Tips
Reeling from all the canine attention, cats have been trying to claw back some status - by channeling their quarantine top tips - including shredding white paper and hissing at humans. Makes a change from advice to make sourdough and learn how to speak French.
Penguin Meets Whale
Animals in human-free zoos have been on ‘field trips’ - a chance to meet some of the other species they’ve never seen before. In Chicago, that’s meant that Wellington the rockhopper penguin came face to very large face for the first time with a Beiuga whale.
