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That horse ain't playing. Look at his ears. When a horse lays is ears back and down like that you don't want to be what he is mad at. Awesome picture!

It never fails. I come to this thread and always end up with a warm fuzzy feeling in my heart and a huge smile on my face. Breathtaking photos everyone of them!

Barry I am sooooooooooo glad you are back. Glad that's not my flower garden that dog is asleep in. LOL!

A sheep and a gentleman farmer pose in a London park to mark the launch the new English Countryside chapter of Farmville, Zynga's global social gaming phenomenon. Farmville English Countryside gives players all-new crops, buildings and decorations located in the beautiful English countryside.
Picture: GETTY

High Seas, Very cute, by rat standards. Actually very cute by any standards. And protected? Interesting.

dj, Not sure why, but I especially love the looks of today's B. The otters are wonderful too. Merci as always.

Irish, I take it the sheep doesn't read the daily paper. Great pic, kid.

Good morning (yawning..)

Morning New York....


Blue point Himalayan.

G'night.

They look like they are harmonizing. That is a one in a million shot I'd say!

Barry, I look so forward to the g'morning and g'night pics!

I loved that pic - all my life having woken up to Siberian Huskies, obviously anxiously waiting for my alarm clock to ring, who did that exact stretch the moment the alarm sounded, knowing full well I would then take them to the nearest park or woods where they could gallop free for hours to their heart's content. And yes, the Siberians also stretched with amazing synchronicity, which always made me laugh - and for anyone who doesn't have to fall off his warm bed at 0400 hrs to take dogs out for their morning gallop in sub-freezing temperatures, please believe me laughter helps you get up and about! Thanks

love huskies
The daily B & O

mmm, wonder if that is sorrel the bunny is holding - I haven't seen it for a while if it is, and wish I could find it in my local garden supplier.

No, Osso, it's not sorrel, it's a dandelion's leaf..

that'd be my guess too

"Definitely my colours, but have you got them in my size?" This colourful bird spotted a pair of trainers matching his own plumage and quickly swooped down for a closer look. The Black-chinned Honeyeater was snapped by photographer Adam Gormley while he was on a hiking trip near Palm Valley in the Northern Territory, Australia. "I quickly realised it matched the colour scheme of the trainers and fortunately had my camera with me," he said. "But after examing the trainer, he started trying to peck away at the blue sock, so I think his real mission was finding nesting material."
Picture: Adam Gormley/Solent

Vasan, a baby Malaysan Tapir (Tapirus indicus) at Edinburgh Zoo.



Imagine suddenly coming face to face with this odd looking fellow...

This picture is one of a series taken by photographer Chris Fallows, 36, that show albatrosses diving for fish less than a metre above dozens of hungry sharks. The birds were spotted swimming precariously close to the sharks as they were being fed fish by a boat full of tourists. The daring birds even pecked at the sharks and stole their lunch - yet the sharks remained unfazed and continued to swim less than a metre beneath them. Chris captured the images in December last year while taking a group of tourists out on a shark expedition out to sea off Cape Point, South Africa. Perhaps his images prove that it's not only sailors who believe in the mariner's superstition 'don't kill an albatross' - sharks do too.
Picture: Chris Fallows / CATERS

There's a story of a little boy going to the zoo, looking at a giraffe for some time, and finally saying: "I don't believe it". Your pics always remind me of that!

The service rat union will never stand for this: When the Department of Justice announced new Americans with Disabilities Act guidelines limiting service animals to dogs and some miniature horses, Dani Moore was more than a little perturbed. Moore, of Hesperia, Calif., relies on her service rat Hiyo Silver to alert her to spasms she can't feel because of her spinal nerve injuries. She asked Hesperia City Council to enact an ordinance that would continue Hiyo Silver's service animal status.
Photo: Damian Dovarganes / AP/via SFGate




A twig? That's the best you could do? It's a critical moment in the love life of a great blue heron. If his stick is accepted by the female he's trying to woo, he gets to mate and build a nest with her high atop a sycamore tree in Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley National Park. If she turns him down, it's back to the great blue heron Internet dating sites.
Photo: Amy Sancetta / AP/ via SFGate




Gorilla smother mother: So far, keepers at the Dublin Zoo can't tell if the zoo's newest addition, born Sunday, is a boy or a girl because momma Lena has kept it firmly pressed to her chest the whole time.
Photo: Conor Healy / Dublin Zoo/ via SFGate

Morning New York....