Archive for the ‘furry’ category
October 12, 2015
The Jersey Devil is perhaps one of the strangest cryptic creatures commonly talked about, and one with a rich backstory. Said to be the unwanted and accursed child of a witch who lived in the 1700’s, Mother Leeds, the creature is described as having hooves, a goat’s or horse’s head, bat wings, and a forked tail. A Little Egg Harbor Township resident, Dave Black, recently snapped a picture of an unidentified life form while driving on Route 9 in Galloway, New Jersey.
Originally the observer thought that he was seeing a llama until the creature “spread out leathery wings and flew over the golf course.” The observer took a picture, and describes what he saw as being a “large, flying mammal about the size of a deer.” The photo appears to show something with dark brown fur, wings on its back, and cloven feet. A video taken by a woman named Emily at about the same time also reportedly shows a reddish animal with a long neck and horns…delightful fare for this Halloween season!
Categories: animals, anomalies, cryptozoology, furry, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: the Jersey Devil
Comments: 2 Comments
September 27, 2015
In rural parts of Pennsylvania, hitting a deer on the road is a very real possibility at this time of year. They’re in rut, you see, and the herds are stirred up as the big guys try to get lucky. Poor Charlie and his wife have just had such an encounter, and they need to find a good body shop fast! We are shown their car ramped up on the rear of the deer-driven vehicle, an antlered buck behind the wheel.
“”You just came out of nowhere!,” contests the woman driving to the buck. The deer makes agitated noises and flails around. “Calm down!,” urges the woman. “No one shot your mother,” she presents in a Bambi reference. The deer vocalizes and thrashes around some more, apparently saying something uncomplimentary about the human driver and raising the ire of her husband, who is ready to take on the buck and is becoming verbally abusive himself.
Fortunately, a Yelp representative is there to recommend a five star body shop, and it’s suggested that the deer and humans all go in there together. They are then shown standing in front of said establishment, although the buck remains mouthy and the human male combative. – – Why can’t we all just get along?!
Categories: absurdities, animals, anthropomorphic, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: deer car accidents, driving deer, Yelp "Deer in Headlights"
Comments: 4 Comments
September 20, 2015
It’s so hard to find a tasty and healthy snack on the African savanna! Two lionesses in a Fiber One commercial would kill for something sweet, and are considering the available offerings. – – Flamingos? – – Nah, they’d have to eat about thirty of them. One offers to split a hippopotamus with the other; too fat, also unacceptable. The hippo appears to harrumph in surprise or indignation.
Fortunately, we humans don’t have to face such quandaries, with Fiber One providing sweet and healthy snacks at only 90 calories. You don’t have to hunt and kill ’em, either…
Categories: animals, anthropomorphic, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: Fiber One, illnesses
Comments: 1 Comment
September 15, 2015
Poor Elliot! Although he’s in harness at work, it’s his co-worker Ned who gets noticed by their female boss, and called “a real workhorse.” When Elliot spins around, neighs, and shakes his magnificent mane, his unappreciative boss only orders him back to work. Typical office favoritism and partiality; sounds like this boss is a real nag!
It looks like Starbucks in this commercial is telling us that even an actual workhorse is no match for someone with a double shot coffee or such down the hatch. Living on excessively high doses of caffeine, however, is no horse laugh, even if they do work you like one…been there, done that!
Categories: animal presence, animals, anthropomorphic, Brilliant but twisted, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: Starbucks workhorse, workhorse
Comments: 3 Comments
August 24, 2015
“Aww, doesn’t the baby look sweet…and tender?”
So you might think that the wolf was thinking in an edgy current public service health commercial about the dangers of whooping cough exposure for infants. In the Big Bad Cough spot, a couple is taking their infant child to visit a grandmother, who transforms from human to lupine right before our eyes! This is supposed to represent the hidden danger posed by whooping cough, carried by the unwary grandmother. Pertussis is a spreadable disease especially dangerous to young children, and the commercial draws upon the classic Red Riding Hood tale.
Now wolves tend to generally get a bad press, representing nothing positive. The Red Riding Hood story has been reworked and re-told a variety of ways, but I’ve always felt somewhat sympathetic towards wolves, and the notion of a wolf in bed wearing a grandmother’s clothing is not without its comic elements, at least in my twisted mind. Perhaps the wolf rather enjoyed the cross-dressing…at any rate, he deserved better than being axed to death by a woodman! In one revisionist kiddie literature version, the story is re-told from the wolf’s perspective…now that’s entertainment!
Categories: animals, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: Big Bad Cough, whooping cough wolf, wolves
Comments: 3 Comments
August 6, 2015
Although a smaller sheep, Shaun the Sheep has leadership written all over him, and would probably be a better presidential candidate than most of the Republican field. A break-out character from the third Wallace & Gromit short, ‘A Close Shave,’ Shaun is a resident of the Mossy Bottom Farm who needs some time off from the farm, eventually winding up with the flock in the Big City (London). The farmer who pursues them winds up hospitalized with amnesia, and it falls to Shaun to free the farmer, return home, and restore the normal order of things.
Remarkably, this can be done without dialogue save for the odd sound effect and musical score. Visual humor is key, with references made to The Shawshank Redemption, The Silence of the Lambs, and even The Wolverine. We also learn that sheep, long under-rated creatures, can sing harmony.
Other films from Aardman Animations include Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run. The resourceful Shaun also has his own television show in the United Kingdom…
Categories: animals, anthropomorphic, furry, movies
Tags: animation, Shaun the Sheep
Comments: 5 Comments
August 1, 2015
It’s heartening to realize that occasionally at least public outrage may be triggered by senseless acts of cruelty and violence against animals, and the illegal slaughter of well-known and beloved animal preserve lion Cecil by an American dentist in Africa has triggered spirited protests and heightened public awareness of both the problems of illegal poaching and the practice of trophy hunting.
The office of the Minnesota dentist involved has been the location of impromptu shrines, angry posters, and picketing, with Dr. Palmer himself in hiding, possibly to face extradition to Africa; over 100,000 signatures presently exist on an on-line petition urging such at this point. Palmer’ s guides may face prison terms of up to ten years. Trophy hunting is a nasty practice in which about 600 lions are killed annually, 2/3 of which make their way to America as an ornament for someone’s den or wall, a tribute to human arrogance, ego, and vanity.
Many Americans simply don’t know that such things are going on, but due to the flap over Cecil’ s illegal hunting death even legal “big game” hunting businesses are starting to feel the pinch, some of which offer excursions to kill not only lions but also elephants and rhinos, for sufficient funds. Perhaps public shaming of participants in such ventures may make them less common…
Categories: animal abuse, animals, controversial, events involving animals, furry, furry causes
Tags: animal poaching, Cecil the lion
Comments: 3 Comments
July 29, 2015
I will always remember the occasion when I was taken as a boy of about ten to the den of a wealthy neighbor who was a “big game” hunter. I was supposed to admire the heads of lions, antelope, and other exotic wild animals that stared at me from the walls, but instead I was filled with a sense of horror and revulsion; this was to me a charnel house, a mortuary. This “mighty hunter” had not done in my sight anything commendable to be worthy of praise or emulation.
The actions of my former neighbor, while I found them personally deplorable, were at least legal. Not so was the hunt of American dentist Walter Palmer of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, who paid at least fifty thousand to track and kill Cecil, a beloved and protected lion at the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe who was readily identifiable, the object of research, and wore a collar. Cecil was lured off the National Park and then shot with bow and arrow. Wounded and suffering, Cecil lived and was tracked for forty hours before being cornered and fatally shot by the “mighty hunter.” Cecil’s ultimate fate was then to be skinned and beheaded, and his cubs will likely be killed by the next lion in the hierarchy to spread their bloodline.
Since this despicable and stomach-churning act, the dentist will at least be charged with poaching and has begun to receive some well-deserved drilling himself. The Yelp page for Palmer’ s dental facility has been overrun with negative comments. “Wouldn’t it be clever to see how you would face Cecil without your tricks and tools?,” ran one comment. That’s a fantasy I could well entertain. Rest in peace, Cecil…you deserved so much better than you received.
Categories: animal rights, animals, deplorable practices, furry
Tags: Cecil the lion, poaching
Comments: 1 Comment
June 26, 2015
When the revolution comes, mammalian furries of different species will work together, communicate over distances, and intelligently coordinate devastating attacks upon humans that will utterly overwhelm and decimate them!
So is the general premise of Zoo, a popular 2012 novel co-authored by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. That novel is soon to become a television series on CBS, beginning this upcoming Tuesday evening. Thirteen episodes are assured, with perhaps additional ones to follow should the series catch on. Zoo will be set in a variety of different locations around the world rather than in a single unchanging site. Lion attacks in Los Angeles, California will apparently be featured early on, but we will also see domestic cat attacks.
A renegade zoologist called Jackson Oz is a featured character, with such lines as “Animal behavior is changing!” Will the humans listen in time? – – Don’t bet on it! The novel was generally well-received by most, despite some junk science in it. While thus far I’ve only been able to view previews and trailers, you can bet that I’ll be glued to the tube this upcoming week to cheer for the home team!
Categories: animal behavior, animal presence, animals, furry, television
Tags: James Patterson's "Zoo"
Comments: 12 Comments
June 5, 2015
In a recent Dairy Pure milk commercial, an enthusiastic teacher is drilling her bovine charges on the “Five Point Promise” of the product. Each “student” is dressed distinctly, with such accessories as eyeglasses and hair.
Apparently, chewing one’s cud is allowed in class…they’re cows, for crying out loud, what else could they do?!
When the teacher asks her students to enumerate what they know about the milk, one blond-haired cow responds, “It comes from udders,” and the rest of the cow-kids titter in repressed laughter. Kids are the same everywhere…udders, heh, she said udders!
What I want to know is, how did this lucky teacher come to have only four students in class? You can bet that they’re motivated, too…after all, what self-respecting young cow would want to be a milk dud, or an udder failure? (Yes, we have no shame here…)
Categories: absurdities, animals, anthropomorphic, furry, furry commercials, television
Comments: 4 Comments
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