I still remember the night Cute Animal Blog was born, mainly because I was stunned my editor gave it the green light. Even I thought the idea of a blog devoted to nothing but fuzzy critters was absolutely insane. But here I am now, months of posts later from the first one, it [...]

Today I found out where I’ll be living in Japan, an announcement that relieved my fear of ending up living on top of Mt. Fuji but also made me realize I have an extremely short amount of time left in Chicago. Sure, there will be tons of things I don’t miss — the stupid [...]

Before today, I didn’t know what a jerboa was. But after visiting Gawker (errrr, Defamer? I usually only visit Deadspin, so I’m confused) and receiving an e-mail from one Shiana Crosby about the same video, I now know what a jerboa is. It’s a weird chicken-meets-mouse thing. And it’s pretty cute.

Lets [...]

First off, I have to thank Dan Camponovo for stepping in for me last night. And he did a great job, so big ups to Dan. And now, for tonight’s post, which comes after a day spent in a car for 10 hours.
And after you’ve been in a car for 10 hours, you [...]

Disclaimer: The regular, professional cute animal blogger Patrick St. Michel is currently road-tripping his way back to Evanston after covering the women’s lacrosse final in Towson, MD. This is Daniel Camponovo, filling in.
So I went to Hinman dining hall for lunch today and saw the choices were slim pickings as usual on a Sunday. I [...]

Instead of doing boring activities like go to class or starting my paper, I spent Thursday wandering around the Lakefill aimlessly in this awesome 80-degree weather. Besides overhearing some awesome conversations (choice sentence: “He wasn’t a bad guy, just a terrible hook-up!”), I spent most of my time outside sitting on the rocks watching [...]

The key with this video is that no cats were hurt, even though they are getting bopped on the head and also apparently being forced to stay in a box. But hey, zany sound effects! Thanks to our idols over at Cute Overload for posting this one first.

To compliment that clip, watch this [...]

We expect a lot from dogs — to be man’s best friend, to be adorable, to bark at whatever moving object is within a mile radius of them. But sometimes, dogs do things way beyond our expectations, leaving us without words and making it onto YouTube in 30-second clips. I will bring you [...]

Inspired by The Daily Bunny (sent to me by Megan Friedman) and the fact I’ve been listening to the new White Rabbits album quite a bit (shameless indie plug to show off, woot!), let’s start the new week off with bunnies! This rabbit is chilling in a dryer.

This rabbit has a guitar pick [...]

I’ve been helping on updating the NU housing guide for most of the day (look for the updated version sometime tonight/early tomorrow!), so I’ve got freshmen on my mind. Creepy, yes, but hey whatcha going to do? At the same time, I’ve been looking at a lot of tiny kittens…and drawing strange parallels [...]

Photo by Gilles Gonthier on Flickr licensed under Creative Commons
No words, only chipmunks.

Photo by Gilles Gonthier on Flickr licensed under Creative Commons

Photo by Vicki’s Nature on Flickr licensed under Creative Commons

Photo by Gilles Gonthier on Flickr licensed under Creative Commons

Boy I’ve had an annoying day! I had to wake up extra early, traffic was terrible so I was late to my internship, I got a parking ticket because I had to finish up some important business for said internship and I discovered the existence of these t-shirts that make me want to disown [...]

Some feline cuteness for those of you who went the days sans Chicago Cubs

Don’t let that headline fool you — no pandas were actually harmed in any of these videos. At least I don’t think so. Regardless, these clips are wonderful, regardless of how much panda pain was needed to achieve it. This first panda was definitely okay though — he had another panda as [...]

Cute Animal Blog’s official Twitter hit the big time this weekend — we logged our 1000th follower! Watch out Real Shaq, I’m coming for you. Since I love meaningless accomplishments, and patting myself on the shoulder over them even more, let’s celebrate this milestone with animals wearing party hats!

OK, that [...]