celebration

It's National Hug A Bear Day! And we here at Cheezburger are celebrating! Now, it's important to remember that you should actually go out and hug a bear. That is a bit dangerous at the end of the day, no matter how cute and cuddly bears may appear. 

No, National Hug A Bear Day is actually a day that refers to teddy bears and is meant to celebrate hugging! Yeah, you heard right. On this day, you aren't supposed to go out and hug actual bears. The way to celebrate National Hug A Bear day is by hugging your teddy bear, or by hugging your friend's teddy bear, or giving a big ol' 'bear hug' to one of your friends or family members. 

That doesn't mean that actual bears shouldn't be celebrated, of course, since bears are unbearably awesome. So, since we can't come give y'all bear hugs right now, as a compromise, we've decided to give you an adorable collection of some of the most teddy bear-like looking bear cubs instead.

Every single month, animals find themselves in precarious situations for various different reasons. And every single month, the lucky ones get saved by some incredible people. We attempt to bring you as many of these stories as possible as they come out, but there are just too many of them. When you think about it, that's really amazing, having too many happy rescue stories to cover.

But since we can't cover all of them throughout the month, we've decided to collect some of these stories for you at the end of each month in a list right here to celebrate these incredible people who put their love and effort into saving animals and the animals that they celebrated. Even so, we will never be able to cover them all, but this is a start, and the people in this list are definitely deserving of more appreciation. 

So, let's say thank you together and hope that next month, there will again be too many rescue stories to cover!

It's national badger day, and we've gathered here today to give these adorable badgers their badgers of honor. For what? For being cute badgers of course.

They're quite underrated in our personal opinion, not many people seem to really appreciate just how cute badgers can be. So, we have decided to take that task into our hands and showcase some of the most adorable badger pictures that we've found on the internet on this special badgerfull day. We hope these lovely badgers put a smile on your face, and if this badger cuteness is not enough, we've always got some cute bats for you to look at.

Why not? Many users celebrate their cat's birthdays and other occasions -- so why not a Quinceanera as well?

Imgur user, ProbablyHorchata, has shared some adorable pics of her cat Bella rocking a pink tutu, in honor of the life achievement of becoming a woman. 

Truthfully, we're absolutely loving the idea and the work that went into making Bella the belle of the ball! 

Commentary for Bella's pics provided by ProbablyHorchata's original Imgur post. 

Happy World Elephant Day! This auspicious day to recognize how much we love these gentle giants of the Savanna, and appreciate the dangers they face from mankind's ever-expanding swathe of deforestation and encroachment into historical habitats for many animals, including elephants of all species and locales. First celebrated in 2012, World Elephant Day is celebrated on August 12th every year. So in honor of this extremely important day, we've put together a list of some interesting facts about these creatures you might not have known.

If you want to get even more background on this day, and why it exists in the first place, you can check out some of these links:

1. Smithsonian 
2. Federal Wildlife Service

Well, a big hug will definitely help today...

Happy Birthday!