This adorable terrier-looking pup was hanging around a group of cyclists when they took a break, so one of them gave her chicken. Well, you know what happens when you give a dog chicken: She never leaves your side again, even if you’re riding your bike from China to Tibet, covering nearly 40 miles a day and climbing 16,000-foot mountains. The dog, nicknamed Xiaosa, had no choice but to run alongside the bikes for more than 1,000 miles. Because love. And also chicken.

Intrepid Xiaosa followed — or, in many cases, led — the pack of bikes for the next 20 days, climbing 12 mountains and handling whatever crummy weather China dished out. Of the 300 people making the trip, 297 dropped out and resorted to buses or hitchhiking to finish the route. Only four made it the entire way — three cyclists and Xiaosa. (Although to be fair, she caught some rides — on downhills, when the bikes were going too fast for her to keep up.)

The bikers were so impressed with the tough, speedy dog that one of them is adopting her (the one who originally gave her a chicken drumstick, fittingly). He’s taking her back to China with him — but this time, she’s going by air.

In what appears to be a direct response to the failed boycott campaign of anti-gay group One Million Moms, JCPenney yesterday unveiled a new Father’s Day ad featuring a same-sex couple playing with their children.

According to the company, the two men who appear in the ad are “real-life dads Todd Koch and Cooper Smith,” and the jubilant children are their kids, Claire and Mason.

“First Pals: What makes Dad so cool?” reads the ad’s copy. “He’s the swim coach, tent maker, best friend, bike fixer and hug giver - all rolled into one. Or two.”

Back in February, the department store chain faced criticism from the American Family Association’s One Million Moms project for its hiring of Ellen DeGeneres to be the company’s new spokesperson. JCPenney refused to submit to the group’s bullying, and stuck by DeGeneres.

Aww. That sounds fucking awesome! I wish I could be there, whoever-you-are.

Two brown bear cubs from a litter of triplets born at Whipsnade Zoo, Bedfordshire playing with the scales at their first weight check. The 4-lb cubs have been transferred to the children’s zoo, where they delight the visitors. (May 3rd, 1962)

Two brown bear cubs born at Whipsnade Zoo. (1970)

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A scuba diver going out of his way to pull a hook out from the mouth of a puffer fish. So nice of him, and totally cute, too. If you fish, you’re a coward and a scumbag.

scienceandrollerskates:

Today, I made some calming manatees, but most of them are the wrong size to go on the site.

Oh well. Would you like them?