Gidget, the Taco Bell Chihuahua, died yesterday at age 15. Nothing personal, but for a person with a Chihuahua, this dog brought nothing but annoyance. If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me if my dog likes Taco Bell… well, I’d probably have about 40 dollars. Still sad, though.
In weirder news, a dog in China has adopted two red-panda cubs abandoned by their mother at the Taiyuan Zoo in Shanxi Province.
The Examiner reports:
The humiliation of “giving birth in its pen, in broad daylight and in front of a huge crowd of visitors,” was apparently too much for the new mother, who had recently arrived from a nature reserve. “It abruptly turned its back on the babies and refused to nurse them,” said the spokesperson.
Zookeepers scrambled to find a wet nurse for the pair of baby red pandas… The mama dog chosen for the job belongs to a local farmer. She is a sweet-tempered, white Chihuahua-looking pooch who had given birth to a puppy just three days before the red pandas were born.
On a non-dog note: Red pandas are soooo awesome!
Just wait untill they eat their new momma!
If I had to give birth on public display in a pen I’d fucking abandon the new borns too!!
Red pandas are just about the cutest things ever.
My favorite red panda commentary.
Red pandas don’t have shit on tanukis.
You have a chihuahua? Wow. Because chihuahuas are like really fucking disgusting. I’d sooner have a pet rat. (Come to think of it, they’re about the same.)
There’s not even enough meat there to make a decent meal, either.
Nature is weird when humans get involved.
Is it weird that I’ve been obsessed with red pandas ever since kung fu panda?
Red pandas are also crafty. I live near the Cincinnati Zoo, and one escaped via a fallen branch through the tree canopy and ended up a block away in a homeowner’s tree (they did notice it had gone missing pretty quickly, though)
Maybe that’s why you hate dogs. If you got a real breed of dog instead of a KFC-meal-reject, you’d be in a better mood.
Or do you just like pussies more, Mrs. Slocombe? ;p