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Once a week, we will be featuring an extraordinary animal account on Instagram! Their story, the adorable pictures, and pawesome videos! This week's spotlight goes to an adorable shorthair munchkin kitten named Eggen! 

Bring on the squeals because Eggen is one of the cutest lil munchkins around! Born January 21st, 2020, Eggen is a white shorthair with heterochromia. Heterochromia means each of Eggen's eyes is a different color. 

Eggen's Instagram presence is fairly new but has made an impact in just a short amount of time. The page already has a following of 14k and it's all thanks to the mega adorableness you're about to set your eyes on. 

Good luck not falling madly in love, we failed. But we also didn't resist in the slightest. 

Little tip for maximum cuteness, please click right for all the pics available.

Sleek, striking and slightly mysterious, cats with grey coloring are gorgeous creatures. 

The color grey is all the rage right now, from Fifty Shades of Grey to countless grey interior decorations to articles declaring that "grey is the new beige."

Please welcome those majestic grey cats who are just too damn beautiful for this world. 

Oh my! What a bunch of lovely ladies and fellas! 

All animals are beautiful, this is a fact. However, some animals may have us doing a double-take and those animals are here with us below. 

We can't help but marvel at their beauty -- join us, won't you? 

We're back with more work from the talented Luis Coelho! We shared his beautiful and unique pen drawings of black cats in the past, but his new work has since developed into an ethereal insight into cat's minds, as well as, our own. 

There's something oddly calming this new style and way of telling a story. Written in Coelho's about me, he explains his drawing technique, "While my drawing technique is generally composed of a slow meditative craft in which hatching plays a major role, my imaginary is composed of adorable, but somewhat obscure creatures that seem to have come from a dream world. "

Follow more of his work on Instagram at Purr.In,Ink! 

We don't need our pets to tell us they love us, they show it in so many ways...you just have to notice them. 

Here are a few ways our beloved pets show us how much they love us:

1. Just how happy they are to see us. Always. I don't know about you, but every time I enter the room where my cat is currently residing -- he gets so excited! When if it's only been 5 minutes since our last encounter. Our pets are so ecstatic just to be near us! Think about that!

2. Those eyes. Who needs words when you have those deep, super-duper loving eyes staring into your soul? That says more than enough. 

3. The little gentle touches, or quirks, they do. For example, your cat may run up to you and stop right before reaching you and suddenly turn to the left or right, but doing so right in front of you. They want you to make that extra step and love them back. And we 100% do, every time. 

Our pets adore us and we adore them. We figure it's a good moment to go give them a big hug and kiss. 

A chimera cat is very rare, a cat with a two-colored face that's split down the middle. We've seen a few that have skyrocketed to Instagram stardom. 

This handsome chimera cat goes by the name Narnia, and he is perfectly split down the middle resulting in two-colors: black and greyish-blue.

Narnia recently welcomed a new litter of kittens making him a dad once more! Amazingly, all of his beautiful kittens all happen to be in each of his colors! Take a look below! 

We absolutely adore senior pets, for so many reasons. 

1. They're the ultimate love bugs. They can express their love and gratitude so deeply, it makes our eyes water just thinking about it. 

2. They are a part of us, our senior pets have been there for us time and time again. When all else around you might seem hectic and hopeless, you can always count on them to be there. 

3. Everything. There's something so special about our senior pets, all their quirks, and unique markings. We can spot our pets out of a lineup of all the pets in the world, that's how much we know them and their hearts. 

Share a picture with us of your senior love bug in the comments below. And if you're looking for more senior pets to gush over, look no further! 

We searched through the most liked cat pictures on the subreddit r/cats, this week, and we decided to share them all with you!

The pictures all have one thing in common, and that is, of course, cats. However, that's where the similarities end. 

There are images of glow-ups, hilarious cats being hilarious, adorable-ness (naturally), and mourning and loss. We wanted to take a moment to appreciate the beauty of all these cats and remember those who have recently left us, they may be gone but never forgotten. 

When you think of pigeons, the word "beautiful" isn't really an adjective you'd use to describe them... "Strange" is much more understandable. 

However, there are pigeons out there, that are completely out of the ordinary from our everyday pigeons that "coo" us awake at 6 am. 

And dare we say... they're actually quite stunning... Well, some of them are... the others we'll just call "interesting:" You be the judge of which is which, we are definitely fans of these colorful pigeons and wouldn't mind seeing them as much as we do the common pigeon! 

Artist Andoni Bastarrika creates some pretty spectacular animal sculptures completely made of sand! 

He began his artistic journey in the summer of 2010, while being on the beach with his two daughters. He made a little mermaid out of sand and has since devoted himself to the art of sand sculpturing. He's spent 10 years developing this gift and the work shared from him just goes to show how talented he is and how far he's come. 

Some of his pieces are very thought-provoking and making a statement about plastic use and sea life dying due to it. Follow his Instagram account to see all the latest updates and new sculptures! 

Once a week, we will be featuring an extraordinary animal account on Instagram! Their story, the adorable pictures, and pawesome videos! This week's spotlight goes to the beautiful blind angels, Cassandra and Omero! 

Even though Cassy and Omer are both white and orange cats, they are actually not related. Cassy was born in 2017 and Omer in 2018.

You might be asking how do they manage around the house both being blind? In a Q&A on their Instagram page, Cassy and Omer's owner explained that they use their sense of smell to navigate and have no problems to adapting to the layout of the house (even if she moves furniture around!).

Pretty impressive! What's even more impressive is their overwhelming love they have for their human. Check out these sweet pics and vids! And follow the adorable duo on Instagram! 

Meet the extraordinary photographer -- Andrea Martin! An award-winning children and family photographer in West Virginia. 

Her photographs below show such a tenderness between the children and animals, it's truly magical and looking at a real-life Disney movie moment. The ethereal lighting and happy expressions on the children's faces are all so endearing -- each photograph here is truly a beautiful moment preserved in time. 

Check out the stunning imagery below. 

That's it, we're moving down to Australia so we can hang out with Mystique, the humpback dolphin from Tin Can Bay on Queensland's Cooloola Coast.

Mystique is a unique pod who had recently developed quite a unique quirk -- a habit of bringing volunteers at the Barnacles Café and Dolphin Feeding centre an array of items each day! Apparently, this unusual habit began during the coronavirus pandemic while the tourists were staying home. 

Mystique is a 29-year-old male dolphin who has often displayed giving behavior but not to this extent.  Dolphin feeding volunteer Lyn McPherson said, "One male dolphin brings in objects on his rostrum, or beak, and then he carefully presents them to us." 

She says they reward him with some fish, "We haven't trained him, but he has trained us to do this."He gets under it [and] if he drops it too far out, or we say 'come on, that's not good enough', then he gets underneath it and brings it to us."The items have included bottles, big bits of timber, shells, and wood, which are brought in on his beak."We swear he has a collection waiting to bring to us," Ms McPherson said.

Since we've been closed to the public he has been doing it more and more. Sometimes he will bring 10, one at a time, and he will line them up as he has to get fish."

Now, that's a smart dolphin.

Follow Barnacles Cafe & Dolphin Feeding on Facebook for more dolphin treasures!