Alfie the horse looks like he could be the first ever 'Movember' winner to have four legs after he decided his moustache is here to stay.

The seven-inch golden curls sprouted from his lip when he hit maturity, but he has grown so attached to his mo that he refuses to let stable manager Hayley Coxteth anywhere near him to cut it off.

Usually horses will get their 'tache cut every six months to keep it from getting in their mouth.

But Alfie has been grooming his mo for five years and it has now fully overgrown both top and bottom lips.

Just the sight of scissors makes Alfie toey and he's been known to bolt across the stable and away to safety just to avoid the snip.

Hayley, 20, told the Daily Mail: 'He is a very headstrong horse and is very proud of his moustache.

'He is a real character. A few years ago it was really big and full but it now looks a little scraggy because it's so long.

'It was bizarre when I first saw it and my first inkling was we need to shave it off. But he does not let you anywhere near it.

'You have to be very brave to try and tackle his curls.'

The fussy stallion, who is kept in Bitton, Gloucestershire, doesn't mind being ridden though and Hayley says Alfie is happy as long as he can keep the mo.

Usually only a rare breed of horse known as the Friesian has been known to grow lengthy whiskers.

And industry experts who have examined Alfie say his moustache could possibly be the longest in Britain.

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Meet Thriller Cat, the latest mega moggy to light up the interwebs with his jive-tastic moves - so jive-tastic is he, in fact, that Michael Jackson-themed remixes are already popping up in his honour.

The 16-second slice of YouTube awesomeness opens with a seemingly normal moggy sitting on the floor opposite the camera.

Apparently spooked by the recording device, our feline pal gets up to investigate - and here is where his rib-tickling moves make their debut.

Leaping up off the floor, he walks towards the camera on his hind legs in a Grinch-like fashion.

Since being uploaded on July 31 the video has been viewed over 680,000 times and received over 8,000 likes.

Unsurprisingly, the video is being passed around so much that, as of August 2, it was the fourth most shared in the US, sixth most shared on this side of the Atlantic and the second most shared in Australia.

'This is the funniest video I have ever seen on Youtube hahaha. No matter how many times I watch it I can't stop laughing,' posted dubdub20 underneath the clip.

Go check out the clip here.

For the original article, go here.

Who? Me?

Pugnacious?

Repugnant?

Rare? Medium? Or Well done?

Chipmunks usually enjoy nuts, fruit and maybe the odd insect - but this particular critter prefers to smoke cigarettes it seems.

The squirrel-like creature was snapped by holidaymaker Joanne Evans, 29, on Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands, at the resort of Costa Calma.

Joanne, a civilian police worker, who was on holiday with boyfriend Jon Nunn, 31, said: 'We were just leaving the beach when the chipmunk popped up over the beach wall with the cigarette in its mouth.

'It was such an odd sight that I got my camera out and took a photo. It just sat there for a short while and then ran off into a bush.'

Joanne, of Urmston, Manchester, said the chipmunks were a common sight around the beach areas on the island - but not usually attached to a cigarette.

Their usual diet consists of grain, nuts, fruit, berries, birds' eggs, small frogs, fungi, worms, insects and on occasions small mammals like young mice.

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Move over Jazzy Jay and Afrika Bambaata because these 'scratch kittens' are taking over the turntables and redefining hip-hop.

These three felines know a thing about how to drop a beat and when they get together they can make meow sound like wow.

The cute trio were caught on camera messing around on a set of turntables and unknowingly began to mix-up a storm while their owner looked on.

One of the kittens got things underway by spinning around on the right turntable, but accidentally fell off after getting a bit dizzy. Its cute sibling then got its claws out on the left trying to scratch.

Middle kitten then turned its attention to the mixer and started fiddling with the levels. even managing to fade one record down then back up.

Finally all three ended their adventure with a short finale of what is being touted as the new genre of kit-step.

We're not sure if Tinie Tempah is looking to do a collaboration, but he'll have to be quick as moggy MCs are bound to get snapped up soon.

Youtube link here.

For the original article, go here.

Roast Pug

This is Spud the hedgehog after four months in rehab.

Back in March he looked like a miniature armadillo – completely bald and with flaky skin condition.

Now he is sprouting a forest of spines thanks to daily hot baths, body rubs and baby oil.

Les Stocker, from St Tiggywinkles wildlife hospital in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, where Spud has been cared for said staff had been inundated with suggestions on how to treat his mysterious condition.

'A woman suggested we pee on it and someone else said we should pray for it. The response has been great even if some suggestions were quite eccentric,' he said.

The hospital was even advised to make a wig for Spud out of cacti.

But Mr Stocker said 'some old-fashioned TLC' has done the trick and Spud has become particularly fond of tummy rubs.

'He's likely to make a full recovery,' he added.

'His spines are coming back which are pretty crucial for a hedgehog and all we have to do is sort his skin out and he'll be perfectly OK. He's still getting his body rubs every day – he's become quite used to them and he knows how to relax.'

If he continues to improve, he will be released him back into the wild.

A worldwide request for ideas for treatment resulted in a flood of potions and suggestions.

Some of the more bizarre included:

Making him a cactus wig
Urinating on him
Bathing him in crocodile oil
Japanese hair tonic
Wheat germ oil
Liquid paraffin
Reiki and crystal healing
Pure Australian emu oil
Moisturising cream for men
Shielding him from radio waves with a tiny tin foil hat

For the original article, go here!

A badger in Germany got so drunk on over-ripe cherries it staggered into the middle of a road and refused to budge, police said on Wednesday.

A motorist called police near the central town of Goslar to report a dead badger on the road - only for officers to turn up and discover the animal alive and well, but drunk.

Police discovered the nocturnal beast had eaten cherries from a nearby tree which had turned to alcohol and given the badger diarrhoea.

Having failed to scare the animal away, officers eventually chased it from the road with a broom.

For the original article, go here!

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Your Favorite Spazzzzz
 
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Miss Smarty Pants

Chocolate brownies on Wikipedia

In American cooking, a chocolate brownie, also known as a brownie or a Boston brownie, is a small, rich, chocolate cake, similar to a cookie, named after its rich brown color. It is sometimes covered with fudge and may contain nuts, chips (chocolate, butterscotch, peanut butter, etc.). The first known mention of a brownie is believed to be in the 1897 Sears and Roebuck catalog. Brownies often have an icing, either chocolate icing or an icing sugar based icing flavored with either vanilla or mint extract. -wikipedia

Just plain old brownies are good if properly cooked! Yum! But even better if they are iced with chocolate!

Iced Brownies!

Then if your really want to get serious, you could add chocolate chips to the mix before baking! Yum!

With chocolate chips!

Of course, you can always dump some chocolate ice cream on it and pour chocolate sauce all over it!

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Ducks!

Duck Family!

Giant hogweed might sound like something out of Harry Potter, but it's straight out of New York. This noxious weed has spread across the state, threatening humans with sap that causes severe burns, blistering, permanent scarring and even blindness.

The outbreak has grown so bad that the N.Y. Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has issued a giant hogweed warning and set up a hotline.

Giant hogweed is native to the Caucasus region of Eurasia, and was brought to the United States in the early 1900s. The gargantuan plant blooms bunches of tiny white flowers the size of umbrellas, which made it a showpiece in ornamental gardens, including one in Rochester, N.Y. In the century since it was planted there, it has spread across the state, with 1,004 confirmed sightings so far this blooming season.

For the original article, go here.

A female van driver ended up submerged in Austria's Lake Grundlsee after misplacing her trust in her satellite navigation system.

Petra Lang, 27, explained to rescuers that she had typed into her sat nav that she wanted to go to the lake - but the machine took her request a little too literally.

According to emergency services personnel, Ms Lang was looking for a shortcut to reach her destination (which, to be fair to her, she did reach).

However, after being briefly unsighted by undergrowth, she ended up going straight into the water.

Not enough has been made of what exactly she was doing when the van was being driven straight into the lake, of course...

'She insisted the satnav system was to blame,' one rescuer explained.

'She said she typed in that she wanted to go to the lake - but got closer than she intended.'

Ms Lang escaped safely enough before firefighters arrived to haul the stricken vehicle from the water, amid fears that it could pollute the bathing lake near the town of Bad Aussee in western Austria.

For the original article, go here.

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It was almost 100 here the other day. When it gets hot like that, I like to think about snow!

This was a winter day in 1960!

School placed on lockdown after fight involving 20 adults; 2 women held

Two women have been arrested following a parents' brawl that interrupted a Southern California kindergarten graduation ceremony, authorities said.

School officials placed Puesta del Sol Elementary in the desert town of Victorville on lockdown Wednesday morning after a fight broke out among a group of parents.

The San Bernardino County sheriff's department says witnesses told deputies several mothers were involved in an argument and it got physical in a field near the ceremony. Several men then jumped into the fray and the incident turned into a brawl.

A deputy later arrested two people on suspicion of being a disruptive presence at a school. Witnesses said they were the main instigators. In all, 20 adults were identified in the brawl. A school district official said there could be more arrests.

No injuries were reported.

For the original article, go here.

The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that a police officer acted correctly when he seized 15 cats from a woman who was driving with the animals running free inside her car.

In a 3-2 decision Thursday, the justices ruled that the felines were a distraction and interfered with driver Patricia Edwards' ability to see where she was going.

Chief Justice David Gilbertson said Edwards nearly backed into patrol car at a convenience store parking lot in Pierre, S.D., because of the moggies in her back window.

The court said Edwards and her cats presented a significant risk to the public.

Edwards was appealing a lower court ruling that transferred ownership of the cats to a humane society for adoption.

For the original article, go here.