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Is it too late to become a wildlife photographer? If the end result is to be surrounded with adorable animals and maybe even one day have a cute baby animal so curious about who you are that they simply wander up to you and become your new best friend. Who in the world wouldn't love that experience?

Ah yes, life as a wild photographer is looking quite grand indeed. You can tell from the look of pure happiness on the photographer's faces as they get real up-close and personal with some of their adorable subjects! We can't blame them for that though, we believe if it had been us in their place, there might be some crying due to pure joy. 

But those who got a bit too close to that bear had the right idea of fleeing! 

So much cuteness in such a small package! Welcome back, cute animal lovers! We've got a lovely collection of some of the cuteness animal pictures and videos currently making the rounds on the web. 

Once a week, we like to bring you a gallery of the cuteness animal pics and vids we come after and deliver them here in one place. Our weekly prescription of cuteness is an essential part of anyone's diet. They say looking at cute animals helps relieve stress and so we're hoping this dump of cuteness really takes off a lot of anxiety and pressure anyone might be feeling. If you're having a more difficult week and need an extra cuteness boost, don't you worry, we've got you covered. 

It is often talked about how pets are a lot of work - you do so much for them and all you get in return is love, right? Wrong. Pets give back so much more than just love. For some people, they're their stability and support, for others, pets are one of the reasons they keep fighting day by day. 

Then, there are dogs who have made it their actual jobs to help people, and seeing everything that they do each and every day truly makes us think that we're the ones not doing enough for them. So, today, we're saying thank you to all of our doggo helpers and doggo heroes. And we're saying thank you to r/dogswithjobs, the subreddit that gives these amazing doggos love every single day!

Most people, when going to adopt a pet, tend to go for the little ones- the baby kittens and puppies who they'll get to raise into their families. And of course, while every adoption and every rescue is to be celebrated, it's important to remember to adopt senior and sick pets too. And sometimes, it happens that this understanding comes to you as you're already in the shelter, about to pick up your tiny new baby, and then an older one-eyes cat looks at you, and finds its way right into your soul.

A tweet sharing a story like that went viral, and other twitter users with similar stories chimed in, sharing their own stories of last minute changes to adoption plans- ones that ended with them picking up the less fortunate animals and giving them a warm home too. 

So, bring in the tissues and let your heart warm with joy. 

Everyone, meet Citra - the cutest orange female kitty who doesn't know how to meow properly. It happens sometimes, what can you do? Some cats just don't know how to cat, but we don't love them any less because of it. Our adorable little furballs are the best no matter how imperfectly perfect they are. And Citra, tumblr user's happyhealthycats's kitty, is extra perfect. 

Of course, tumblr instantly fell in love with her, as did we, but we also fell in love with her twin sister and with their three unrelated siblings, each of whom is an adorable weirdo in its own right. So, listen to Citra's weirdo little broken meows and fall in love with her like the rest of us.

Rescuing a cat is a challenge - always, but us, cat lovers, sometimes can't help ourselves. When we wanna help a cat and set our minds to it, we will do it. But what happens if the cat you just rescued from the street starts getting fatter and fatter, and you think to yourself that it's just because you're feeding it so generously, and then a couple months later, that cat gives birth and you have an adorable squealing litter on your hands? Allow twitter users to tell you their stories. 

A tweet about @ParisZarcilla's amazing story went viral, and people started chiming in and telling their own stories of cats in their lives unexpectedly giving birth, and these stories are heartwarmingly adorable. So, check them out, and if you have stories like that of your own, come share them in our ICanHas Storytime Facebook community!

Gooooood morning, fellow animal lovers! We hope you're ready to tackle a new week! And if not, no need to worry because we're here to spread you some Monday morning cheer --  in the form of animal memes! And not just regular animal memes, oh no, we bring you this week's most adorable and most wholesome animal memes!

There's something magical about adding a touch of wholesomeness to animal memes (which as generally quite wholesome, to begin with). We wish you all a wonderful and wholesome upcoming week! Make sure you start the week off on the best possible note you can -- with wholesome animal memes. 

Enjoy! 

From hardship on the street to a loving forever home, the story of a cat named Floyd Mayweather is one that you'll need tissues for. He's a fighter, a blind senior feral cat who was 10-12 years old when he was found on the street crying, but now, he doesn't need to fight anymore. Today, he's best friends with another cat in an amazing, loving forever home with an owner that he loves. And though his story brings tears to our eyes, we are so happy to hear that he's better now.

Read more about his story below, and don't forget the tissues. 

Story via: TODAY

It's the start of a new week tomorrow, and we can feel how much you're wishing the weekend lasted just a little bit longer. Don't worry, we're about to put some smiles on your faces - with the help of some of our favorite smiling fur balls. So, get ready for some positivity, friends, and for starting the week off with huge smiles on your faces.

Happy animals never fail to make us smile, and we guarantee that they'll do the same for you. You simply won't be able to resist it, nor should you. Let this pure animal joy drive you through the week, and check out some more much needed positivity right here!

Time to give love to an adorable senior cat, and the internet has taken this task very seriously. Meet Steve, an 18-year-old cat who cries if his owner takes his sweater off him. Aaaand cue the 'aww's. 

He's an adorable cat who's cuddly, clingy, chill, and derpy all in the best ways, and we're totally in love with him. Thank you, rosytroll, for introducing this gorgeous cat to the internet, and thank you to the internet for making Steve go viral. We are so happy to meet him. He seems like the bestest of all best senior cats, and we wish him many more years of joy and warm sweaters. 

Happy Sunday Funday! Let's continue our lovely day by adding some of the hottest (and cutest) cat videos currently making the rounds on Instagram! And my, oh, my, do we have some lovely wholesome videos for you this week! Seriously, like heart-melting wholesome, so please be prepared for that.... because we weren't.

And, of course, some funnies have to be included! All these videos have what you all love most: wholesomeness, funnies, cuteness, and... cats! The absolute purrfect gathering of videos. Enjoy! 

Another week gone and past, but we're still going to make the best of what's left of it, because the weekend is not over until you've had your weekly dose of tumblr shenanigans. This time, we're bringing you animals that are all positivity and hilarious adorableness.

It's the only way to start the week off on the right foot. Wholesomeness and funny animals told through the expert storytelling hands of tumblr users are something that always puts a smile on our faces, and we can only hope it'll do the same for you.

So, have an amazing end to your weekend and a wonderful week, animal lovers, and we'll see you here next week for some more tumblr fun. 

If you haven't heard about our newest Facebook page, 'ICanHas StoryTime,' you're missing out! No worries though, we can tell you all about it right here and right now! We have recently opened up a new Facebook page for our amazing animal-loving community to share their stories! So many beautiful and funny stories all from our very own users! 

So, if you've got a precious pet you'd like to share and/or their story, be sure to follow us on Facebook! 

Recently, we asked our newest community users to send us photos of their pets and their best "If I Fits, I Sits," and all the responses were so heckin' cute, we decided to share them all! 

"Our Deputies are out there to keep the public safe. That also includes our furry family as well," tells sheriff Bartlett to NEWS 10 after rescuing a dog that feel through thin ice into the water, and we are so, so thankful that they came to rescue the pooch as fast as they did.

This could have ended up as any pet owner's worst nightmare, but luckily, this story has a happy ending. In the recent weeks, officials in the area have been warning the residents about the dangers of thin ice, and sadly, we found out that it's not just us humans who are at risk of falling through it. Shortly before noon on Friday, in Ancram, N.Y., the police got a call about a dog who fell through the ice. 

As NEWS 10 reports, Sergeant Heath Benansky, who is also a dog handler, was the first officer on the scene and successfully managed to get to the scared pup using a paddle board. He along with Deputy Torchia rescued the dog.  

"I am very happy to have such a well trained ice rescue team that was able to deploy so quickly. Had they not gotten there so fast, there could have been a much sadder outcome," said sheriff Bartlett.

The pooch was later identified as "Andy" and was returned safely to shore, and after finding Andy's owner through social media, she was returned to her owner as well. 

This is a lesson for all of us to learn to be more careful with our precious little pets, and thankfully, this lesson was learned with no permanent harm caused. It's the kind of happy ending story that we love to read about, and for more of those, read about an owl with three gunshot wounds getting released back into the wild.