Pets in the paper – finding a home
Check out these stories in The Oklahoman today -
- Opinion: End all chimp research. (Stillwater)
- Activist wants home for seized dogs, cats. (Sand Springs)
Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
Dogs are funniest … not on purpose
So just in case you were wondering, dogs outshine cats when it comes to wins for America’s Funniest Home Videos. I’m not sure that’s a good thing, though. Most of the time winners on America’s Funniest Home Videos have either done something ridiculously stupid or just been hit in the groin.
The show marks its 20th anniversary at 6 p.m. Sunday on ABC. (Read more about TV on the NewsOK Television Blog!)
And in honor of their anniversary, show officials calculated all the animal winners during the past 20 years. Dogs finished first with cats close behind. But there are all kinds of other animals that have won. (Who knew whales could be funny? And who knew that a praying mantis would win not once but twice?)
- 1 ANT
- 3 BEARS
- 22 BIRDS
- 1 BULL
- 1 CAMEL
- 34 CATS
- 1 CHIMP
- 1 DEER
- 136 DOGS
- 1 ELK
- 1 FERRET
- 1 FISH
- 1 FLY
- 1 FROG
- 4 GIRAFFES
- 4 GOATS
- 1 GORILLA
- 1 GUINEA PIG
- 3 HAMSTERS
- 4 HORSES
- 1 KANGAROO
- 1 LIZARD
- 2 LLAMAS
- 5 MONKEYS
- 2 MICE
- 1 ORANGUTAN
- 1 OSTRICH
- 2 PRAYING MANTIS
- 5 RACOONS
- 1 RAM
- 1 RAT
- 1 RHINO
- 1 SEA LION
- 1 SPIDER
- 1 SNAKES
- 9 SQUIRRELS
- 1 TARANTULA
- 1 TOAD
- 2 WHALES
Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
Pets in the paper – Zoe gets ready
Check out these animal stories in The Oklahoman today
- Baby chimpanzee Zoe to get first look at public. (Oklahoma City, video below)
- Chains take wag out of dog’s tail. (Oklahoma City)
- Pet Tales: Dog found after family prays. (Oklahoma City)
- Dove release honors victims. (Chickasha)
- Purina products joining the battle to defeat breast cancer. (nationwide)
Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
Pets in the paper
Check out these animal stories from The Oklahoman today, yesterday and Saturday:
- Make your pet a video star in NewsOK.com contest.
- Bug Fest has creepy-crawlie stars. (Norman)
- Mailed jailed in doe shooting. (Vermont)
- Equine dentist law has teeth. (statewide)
- State park just made horse sense. (Wagoner)
- Zoo welcomes baby elephant. (California)
- Condor suffers from gunshot. (California)
- Oil soaks pelican, Australian beach. (Saturday, page 7a)
- Don’t make impulse bunny buy. (statewide)
- Oklahoma City Zoo exhibit revives dinosaurs.
Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
One ticket to cute, please
A cute little English chimpanzee who was abandoned by his mom got his own seat and maybe the cutest passport ever for a flight to his new home.
Bili, the 3-month-old Bonobo chimp, had to be hand-reared after his mom abandoned him. He was taken recently by his new
keepers to the Frankfurt Zoo in Germany to live with a mother chimp who has been trained to foster abandoned babies.
Bonobo chimps are endangered. They are found only in the Congo, and less than 10,000 are believed to survive in the wild.
No report what other passengers thought of the chimp on the plane, but I’m guessing he was less annoying than your average screaming child. Not to mention cuter.
- Staff Writer Bryan Dean
Chimp nurses tiger cubs
Far be it from me to engage in hyperbole, so I won’t say this is the cutest video ever. But I dare you to find a cuter one.
Seems a 3-year-old chimpanzee has learned to help her keeper nurse two young male white tiger cubs in Florida. If there is anything cuter than tiger cubs, it is a chimp nursing tiger cubs. Enjoy.
- Staff Writer Bryan Dean
