Radical Animals

Well it looks like our Honda and Square Watermelon:

creating friends over in Japan have decided to use technology to create hybrid animals, likely for their amusement. I’m going to go out on a limb here, but I’m guessing that these monkeys as you can see below which GLOW at night are not going to be genetically favored for survival of the fittest. The fact that these two cuties were “born” glowing means nothing since their parents were engineered to glow… The bottom images is their glowfur at night.

Via: National Geographic

A Chinese college student though that Yang Yang the Panda bear was so cute that he would scale it’s enclosure’s fence and ask it for some TLC.

Qixing Park jumped the 6.5′ fence in Guangxi Zhuang, China and decided to approach the bear for a hug. Park said “Yang Yang was so cute and I just wanted to cuddle him. I didn’t expect he would attack,”.On the plus side officials at the park say that Yang Yang did not seem to suffer any negative psychological effects.

This is one that I truly wish we had some video footage for!

Via: Yahoo News

Nagi Noda, who also created the odd video in our previous post has created some very cool and intricate hats that actually appear as hair in the shape of an animal!
Now you will not have to worry about hat-head, as the animal will remain on your head at all times!
Below are a few of our favorites, but you can see all of the designs at her site.





Via: Pupstyle

Mariko Takahashi, a Japanese 2005 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships gymnast was kind enough to make a 10 minute video to help promote good fitness. She will instruct you to reshape your body with a little hope and exercise. She herself lost much weight. How does this relate to animals?…. Well she says you can get beautiful arms and legs…. but who really wants their legs to look like those of a poodle?!!!?!?!?!


The more you watch the more that those poodles will freak you out!!!!!!

In 2005, The U.K. held an open competition, asking aspiring artists to create art out of solely cans of red bull. Now Redbull travels the world with new can designs!!!! Several of them were animal themed and can be seen below!

There are several upcoming events, including an exhibition in Texas from July 12-25. You can visit Redbullartofcan.com for more info, as well as more designs!!!!Via: 2005 Flickr photoset

Nintendo’s DS (Dual Screen) announced that “Animal Boxing” will be released in the end of this year. Kotaku.com explains that the game is controlled by “a gameplay mechanic that has you turning around your DS so your opponents’ torsos and heads are displayed on the touchscreen”. The very odd part is that as you can see in these pictures you are battling the animal not as another animal…. but as a person! I’m sure PETA is already fighting this one…

You can see Kotaku’s full picture gallery here.

Apparently concerned that the well-known Hello Kitty sales may slow down, Sanrio has created a new set of adorable characters that they call “Cherinacherine”. Yes, it’s a mouth-full, and yes they do strike resemblance to Hello Kitty, though I can’t really tell if they are mice/rats/cats or some hybrid inbetween.

For starters, there will be 24 items in the series including soft toys priced at 1,575 yen, handbags priced at 2,940 yen and letter sets costing 525 yen. They will be sold in department stores and at stores managed directly by Sanrio. We will stay tuned for these cute novelty animals and future merchandise!
Via: Mainichi , Tokyomango

IDEC Manufactures of Japan have designed a mini-tub that you can place your dog into with a special shower head that discharges water containing approximately 600,000 tiny air bubbles per cubic centimeter. Creating such small bubbles allows it to penetrate the dog’s skin and effectively clean without scrubbing or shampooing. IDEC originally manufactured these for veterinarians, but are now releasing them to the general public for the small price of ~600,000 yen (~$600,000). It can be plugged in directly to your home bath tub!!!!

If you have some pocket change left over, here are a couple of expensive pouch gifts that we have shown you previously:
Architectured Dog Houses
Dog Heart Pendant
Million Dollar Dog Necklace

Via: Pink Tentacle

Very sad news from the big apple last Thursday. “Ginger,” a Boston terrier was murdered by a street cleaning machine while being walked.

Ginger with her mate Buster

Witnesses say that the street sweeping machine was going 30-40mph; well over the 10mph it was supposed to be traveling. Ginger was taken right off of her leach. Witnesses also say that the owners chases the machine for blocks, and when they finally caught it, the driver refused to turn off the machine.

There is an investigation on the driver of the cleaning machine, though he is still on duty. His department issued the following statement “Yesterday morning’s incident involving a dog being swept up by a Department of Sanitation mechanical broom, while on cleaning duties in the Bronx, was a rare and unfortunate accident. Sanitation has offered condolences to the family.”

RIP Ginger.

Via: wcbstv.com

Parker Posey who is filming “Happy Tears” with Demi Moore in Philadelphia has a dog with an odd trick. Gracie, a bichon-frise/maltese pooch was given pre-chewed ‘Stride Winterblue gum’ by Philadelphia shop owner Dan Wilbur. Parker told the shop owner that her dog enjoys to chew gum!!!! When Parker tried to take the gum away from her dog it swallowed the whole piece. Cheers to another celebrity who isn’t even responsible enough to take care of a little animal.

Parker was in several films and TV shows such as Boston Legal, Scream 3, Blade 3, Etc.

Via: Philly.com Blog , IMDB