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Anyone who has a dog has likely encountered them creating a mess around the house at one point or another. Dogs just love to sink their teeth into those pillows, man. We definitely got a kick out of this humorous little emotional rollercoaster. That mugshot is pure gold. 

It's a not-unheard-of occurrence in relationships: "either the dog goes or I go." People who set this kind of ultimatum often have a very uninformed view on how much people like their pets. If the cat has been around for 10 years and you've been around for 3 months, don't expect an outcome in your favor. That said, pets aren't always stoic beacons of morality. For example here's Prancer, the irredeemable dog and these pets who shamelessly wrecked stuff.

There is actually a legitimate medical reason for giving the vulture its pants, but that is buried under the undeniable spectacle of a bird wearing pants. The concept was all-consuming enough for Chappell Ellison to demand artists renderings of the panted vulture, and what came of it was, well, more vultures in pants. Nice. It's reminiscent of the time people were asked to share their art and draw a duck.

Dogs have the uncanny ability to find themselves comfortable in the most uncomfortable of positions and places. In a lawnmower seat? No problem. Cantilevered awkwardly between a chair and a couch? Dream on you flying buttress. The circumstances don't matter, nor do the positions. Honestly, some of these good boys and girls straight up look like piles of legs. While it seems like most dogs spend all of their leisure hours sleeping, they also have meaningful, fulfilling lives. When some dogs aren't dozing off at a 270 degree angle, they are being professional dogs who take their work very seriously. Some of the less professional dogs are just getting stuck in stuff. But there are some dogs out there who have stories told about them. Here's a dog who figured out how to herd a lawn roomba.

Contrary to the belief that pets just sit there and mope all day, many animals have rich inner lives filled with jealousy and rage. There's dogs out there herding lawn roombas and cats out there being eloquent, melodramatic divas. There's cats Lion Kinging other cats off balconies and jealous horses up to no good. Animals are just as petty and vicious as the rest of us.

What a rollercoaster of emotions. This is really the best case scenario for anyone who has ever lost a pet. You think that everything is doomed, and then that cat ends up crashing the whole show, with no idea why everyone is so stressed out. 

Blair Braverman's Twitter thread about her adventure with a loving, big hearted good boy named Grinch is pure wholesome gold. Lost it at the one liner about how Grinch basically waited out the span of his short-term memory so that he no longer recalled turning around.