morning fluff

Mondays are for mammoth bones!

For Harlot the baby hedgehog, breakfast requires a shot glass.

Cat takes on Collective Soul...

... kills it.

[thanks, chris!]

Top YouTube comment courtesy Alex Willis: "Now you see, the balloon had a way to deal with what was obviously legitimate rape..."

[reddit]

If only we could all blame a bad hair day on a burning building.

[22words]

When Redditor tunafish221 rescued a doberman from a rural shelter, she was shocked upon arriving home to learn her new pet was pregnant.

These group pics were captured when the litter was first born, at four weeks, and at six weeks.

Don't miss the rest of the group's weekly snaps, taken until the pups outgrew the tub and were eventually adopted.

[reddit]

Ginger Cat knows how to pull chicks.

[to]

Just a back-lit hamster. No big deal.

[22words]

Kittens can play dead, too -- here's some pretty charming proof.

[stuffistole]

Wakko + Skrillex -- some things are just meant to be.

[theaggregate]

Meet Teddy The A**hole Cat, so named by his owner for behavior such as, well, this.

[reddit]

Nothing cuter than a gaggle of puppies on a hard-target search for the water that is supposed to be in their pool.

[ohhaveyouseenthis]

Yakini, a newborn baby gorilla at the Melbourne Zoo, is no fan of a cold stethoscope.

Full disclosure: These pics were taken in 1999. Yakini now is fully grown.

[reddit]

Marple the puppy moves so fast her owner had to shoot her in slo-mo.

[thanks, nat!]

Alternately, BAMF Kitty of the day.

(Heads up -- volume.)

[ohhaveyouseenthis]

This one's a classic "wait for it..."

[mashable]