How pure and wholesome is this friendship! We always have a soft spot for unlikely animal friendships. It just goes to show that animals are so accepting and pure.
An owl is hitching a refreshing ride in the lake on the back of this calm and happy German Shepherd. What could you possibly see today that'll top that?
Enjoy this adorable friendship going on an adventure!
Honestly, there is nothing more adorable than seeing a pair of animals (who are completely different species) get along.
Why is that? Maybe it's because animals are just better than people and can be friends with almost anyone, regardless of their species. It's a beautiful and pure sight and if this doesn't brighten up your day, we honestly don't know what will.
Enjoy some major wholesomeness!
The beautiful illustrations with a message are created by the talented James Norbury!
If you need some uplifting goodness in your life, 'Big Panda and Tiny Dragon' is a beautifully illustrated comic that features... you guessed it! A big panda and a tiny dragon! The dialogue between the pair is often very wholesome and ends with a fresh perspective on things.
It's a delightful and wholesome comic and if you're a fan of delightful, wholesome, and beautiful things, you should follow 'Big Panda and Tiny Dragon' on Facebook or Instagram!
Sniffer, the wild fox, and Tinni, the dog, are just like Disney's "Fox and the Hound," except this time, they remain best friends and there's no heartbreak involved.
It's a real-life Disney movie that's even more Disney than the Disney version! Hounds and foxes, typically, do not get along, That's why it was a surprise to Tinni's owner, photographer Torgeir Berge when their interaction blossomed into a real friendship.
Lucky for us, Torgeir Berge captured some really lovely photos of the pair and now we can all have the "Fox and the Hound" version we all deserve.
Story via Eternally Sunny
Sharks who form long-lasting friendships with one another? That's actually really cute.
According to a team of scientists, in Florida, they have recently discovered that grey reef sharks form long-lasting relationships with one another. Yannis Papastamatiou, a member of the team studying this phenomenon, said "We don't think of sharks as social animals, but they do have social groups."
The grey reef sharks are large-eyed sharks who roam the Pacific and Indian ocean. They are known to be aggressive nocturnal predators but it turns out they have a soft side when it comes to other grey reef sharks.
Story via The Independent
The cuteness never ends! Meet Sakura, the otter, and Mochi, the cat!
The pair are best friends and love to snuggle with each other and the hearts of everyone, everywhere, are exploding.
Sakura can't seem to let go of Mochi while snuggling and it made us think about how otters (in the wild) hold onto the hands of their friends and family so they don't drift away and lose one another. Makes this moment feel just as precious, wouldn't you say?
You can follow more Sakura and Mochi on YouTube!
Be still our tender hearts! There is absolutely nothing more precious than when two different animal species become best friends!
During the COVID-19 lockdown at the Australian Wildlife Park, a koala named, Elsa, and a wombat named, Hope, shared an enclosure together.
It was during that time that they two struck up the most adorable friendship. They're now being called, "lockdown BFFs." The two marsupials were hand raised by the keepers at the Australia Reptile Park, wombats are actually the closest relative species to the koala, so their keepers figured it would be a friendship match in heaven... they were right.
Now that the park has re-opened, the keepers are making sure that the two are able to see each other every day!
We've seen a lot of unusal interspecies friendship but can't recall ever seeing this particular bond...
A cat and a snake... friends? Weird, right? Weird but strangely really neat. That's what Twitter user and cat owner @molly7anne thought, too. After sharing a few images of her cat just basking in the sun with a snake, the tweet soon went viral and was flooded with comments and criticism (as always).
Here are a few of the most popular comments:
The friendship between a kid and his pet is one of the precious bonds ever!
Japanese grandmother, Tamanegi, started documenting the pure bond between her granddaughter and her three giant poodles, Qoo and Riku, since she was three-years-old.
A year later, her grandchild, Mame, was born, and the doting grandmother's passion for photography intensified.
With more than 560K followers on her Instagram page, These nanny's adorable photos and videos are just what we needed right now.
George the dog was depressed for 2 years due to the lost of his very best friend of 12 years, a Labrador named Blackie.
There didn't seem to be an end to the depression, until a strange duck waddled into George's life.
It's unknown as to where the duck came from but we're grateful that it did. We all deserve a duck like this one in our lives.
Stop the presses! This is simply the most darling thing we've seen in awhile!
Everyone loves when different species have somehow created a friendship, we've seen it many times and with a variety of different animals.
We have never seen Orangutans playing with otters, however! And our hearts are simply melting!
24-year-old Orangutan named Ujian is smitten with his little otterly adorable friends.
The pictures are from a zoo in Belgium, where the animals live together at Pairi Daiza zoo in Domaine du Cambron, as part of a program designed to maintain the primates' well-being in captivity.
Story via CNN
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 Polly and Paxton!
This adorable duo comes with such a heartwarming story!
Paxton, a 12-year-old Labrador retriever, immediately bonded with a days-old blind kitten, Polly. Polly was found crying within a thicket of trees when owner Morgan Webb discovered her. She brought in the kitten and began to give her a bath.
Paxton, never leaving Polly's side from the moment she arrived, stood by and sniffed and nuzzled Polly the moment her bath was completed.
When a few drops of kitten milk spilled from the bottle and onto Polly, Webb stated this moment led to their inseparable bond. "Paxton would lick, lick, lick her, and he fell in love. I think that is where their relationship really started." Webb tells PEOPLE.
Since then, their bond has been so strong and loving -- and it shows.
Meet the unlikely duo that has the internet melting! Herman (the pigeon) and Lundy (the 8-week-old Chihuahua), both at The Mia Foundation, an organization dedicated to giving pets with birth defects across the country a fighting chance.
Herman is a pigeon who cannot fly, and Lundy is a special needs Chihuahua.
Herman and Lundy were both placed on the same pillow at the New York-based non-profit and they took to each other right away!
"I set Herman on a dog bed and started caring for Lundy, and I decided to carefully put Lundy in the same dog bed next to him," Sue Rogers, who founded The Mia Foundation in 2012, told PEOPLE, of how the adorable friendship moment started.
The pics have since gone viral!
It has come to the worlds attention that coyotes and badgers are often in some sort of partnership when it comes to hunting.
It's a pretty rare phenomenon to see two different species of predators working together to get their next meal.
According to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, "Studies have shown that this unusual relationship is beneficial for both species. The coyote can chase down prey if it runs and the badger can dig after prey if it heads underground into its burrow systems."
Who knew?! Pretty amazing to see these two work together! And thanks to the Peninsula Open Space Trust, a recent video of the duo, on the hunt, has come out.
Twitter user, Russ McSpadden, shared the video and sparked a thread about this wholesome friendship that users have come to love.
An illustrator from Singapore named Bobble Jot created a series of comics and dedicated it to her bond with her husband.
There is no purer love than between a kid and her dog. All our pets are such a huge part of our lives and hearts, it's difficult to put into words just how much they mean to us, how much we love them.
Imgur user adderly shared heartwarming images of the life and bond between a girl and her dog. Imgurian user revealed that they originally told their sister NOT to get a puppy when she had her baby...
The rest is history. Watch the transformation of love to more love below:
