dogs

This dad has clearly tapped into a worthwhile and rewarding way to spend some of his retirement. Apparently he likes to walk some dogs from the local shelter, and also enjoys making up little bios for them. We need more of these!

Your garden variety "Beware of Dog" sign brings to mind an almost cartoonishly ferocious hurricane of spit and teeth, and the animals behind these signs don't seem to fit the bill. Some of these you wouldn't be surprised to find sleeping in silly positions. For some dogs who have more of a sense of what's going on, here are professional good dogs who take their work seriously.

Dogs have the uncanny ability to find themselves comfortable in the most uncomfortable of positions and places. Honestly some of these look like piles of legs. When some dogs aren't sleeping, they are professional dogs who take their work very seriously. Less professional dogs are just getting stuck in stuff.

It's extremely satisfying to think about our pets having distinctive personalities, and animals with peculiar facial hair make them even more distinctive. Here are some cats with mustaches, a few goatees, some dogs with beards and a monkey with a fu man chu. Here's an informal history of how cats became domesticated, or just a silly post about a peculiar cat that likes being in the fridge.

We need more stories of this troublemaking Pomeranian, stirring up all kinds of ruckus around the neighborhood. Twitter user @Cmpriest, tells a hilarious story of "Chunk" being a big old rascal. 

These good dogs have important responsibilities like finding things and calming people down. These dogs are the answer to the question "who's responsible? Oh boy, who's responsible?" For more dogs, here are tired dogs in awkward sleeping positions and stuck dogs who need a hand.

They say let sleeping dogs lie, but that might lead to back problems. We've seen dogs do some amazing things, and being able to turn into tired goop on a couch is now one of those things. Some of the physics her makes no sense, but we're here for it. Dogs can get themselves in some precarious situations, like these stuck dogs that need a hand.

The general idea here that if a dog is so small that it can be picked up, and never taken seriously, little dog owners have no reason to actually train them. Tumblr gets down some interesting pet rabbit holes (pun sort of intended), like the history of how cats became domesticated, or this take-down of fake service dogs.

There's a lot of room in this world for failure and misfortune, but sometimes it's healthy to have a little bit of compassion and indulge in some wholesome memes because life isn't always bad. So here are some uplifting and light moments because those exist too.

This guy asked the people of Reddit whether or not he was in the wrong for dipping into his savings, and dropping $5K on a surgery for his dog without asking his partner about it first. Sounds like she went ballistic upon realizing that he didn't run his decision by her first. 

Yeah, they cover just about everyone you'd see on the street. If you see yourself or someone you know in here, don't feel bad, just realize that we're all just a bunch of predictable jackasses.