Friends

We Is Friends! Me and You is Friends You smile, I smile... You hurt, I hurt... You cry, I cry... You jump off a bridge, I gonna miss your emails

Seeing Eye Cat

Here's what the article says: Cashew, my 14 year old yellow lab, is blind and deaf. Her best friend is Libby, 7, her seeing-eye cat. Libby steers Cashew away from obstacles and leads her to her food. Every night she sleeps next to her. The only time they're apart is when we take Cashew out for a walk. Without this cat, we know Cashew would be lost and very, very lonely indeed. It's amazing but true: This is one animal who knows what needs to be done and does it day in and day out for her friend. ~Terry Burns, Middlesburg, PA

Nifty Desktop Wallpapers

From Mandala Madness, here is a selection of cool and inspirational desktop wallpapers. Enjoy! Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the life you've imagined. Toward the One What you must dare to be is yourself. Be still and know. There is only one journey. Going inside yourself. Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy. May the blessing of light be on you, light without and light within. May the blessed sun shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peat fire, so that the stranger may come and warm himself at it, and also a friend.

Koko

"Soft good cat cat." ~Koko Koko is one of a number of great apes in various experimental communication programs and is remarkably conversant in American Sign Language, used by hundreds of thousands of hearing-impaired people. With her linguistic skill, she asked for, and finally received, the small, tailless tabby kitten she promptly named All Ball. All Ball was groomed, played with, cuddled and loved, and never once showed fear of her large foster-mother, outlandish though she might seem to feline eyes. The growing relationship was cut horribly short by All Ball's death beneath the wheels of a car. This is Smokey, Koko's more recent kitty friend.

Something to warm your heart!

Awwwww....

Newborn Baby Moose, Alaska.

The mother picked a small quiet neighbor and had her baby in the front yard. Is this cool or what?

The Miracle of Love

Wow! I found this image at Non-Violent Planet News. Here's the story on these two. They're an odd couple in every sense but a monkey and a pigeon have become inseparable at an animal sanctuary in China. The 12-week-old macaque - who was abandoned by his mother - was close to death when it was rescued on Neilingding Island, in Goangdong Province. After being taken to an animal hospital his health began to improve but he seemed spiritless - until he developed a friendship with a white pigeon. The blossoming relationship helped to revive the macaque who has developed a new lease of life, say staff at the sanctuary. Now the unlikely duo are never far from each other's side.

Call of the Wild

Striking images of a wild polar bear playing with sled dogs in the wilds of Canada's Hudson Bay. The photographer, Norbert Rosing, was sure that he was going to see the end of his huskies when the polar bear materialized out of the blue, as it were. Obviously it was a well-fed bear. The Polar Bear returned every night that week to play with the dogs.

Love Story

Isn't this sweet? I do not know the story behind these pictures, but the love is evident.

Unlikely Friends

NAIROBI (2003) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said. The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean , then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him. "It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park , told AFP. "After it was swept and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added. "The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added.

Tiny miracle!

The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb. During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile. Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 % successful.

Pandamonium!

One zoo in southwest China has its hands full with 16 baby pandas. The Sichuan Wolong Panda Protection and Breed Center is dealing with the results of a breeding boom -- 16 pandas have been born since July, 2006. The brood includes five sets of twins. These baby bears are just way too cute for words!

Wow!

What a cool image!

Hummingbirds

This lady lives in a Hummingbird fly zone. As they migrated, about 20 of them were in her yard. Just for a lark, she took the little red dish and filled it with sugar water and this is the result. What patience this would take and what a thrill also.

Memorial Day

Let's not forget what today is really about.