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Oh, this is how you shoot wildlife doc for Discovery+ entirely from your garden.

Finalists in the 2021 Comedy Pet Photo Awards

The finalists for the 2021 Comedy Pet Photo Awards have been announced and I think they will make you smile. This year, the thousands of photos have been narrowed down to 40 finalists , including the curious fowl above. This capture by Catherine Falls is absolutely priceless. Good luck to all the contestants!

Chipmunk Cafe

Quarantine does weird things to people, and in this case food writer Angela Hansberger decided to open her own restaurant for a chipmunk. And each day would make a different pop-up cafe for him. From Bon Appétit : "Important to dining, especially now, is tipping. Thelonious, I’ll admit, had always been a poor tipper. Then one evening I watched as he carried over a mysterious wad of leaves and bits of flowers, things not available near my porch, and left them at the table. For me? Did he leave these special things for me? I considered it an excellent tip. Thelonious Munk comes every day now. Sometimes he sits at the table, waiting for me. He is the diner critiquing my meals; I am the chef and the server, waiting for positive reviews. I switch up the menu, making sure not to overfeed, as chipmunks are hoarders and can eat to their detriment. I watch like a new parent introducing foods to a baby, cataloging likes and dislikes. Google be damned, Thelonious doesn’t dig mushrooms, fresh...

Mountain lion stalks, lunges at hiker

This is an incredibly majestic video of an angry cougar stalking some hiker in Utah after trying to take a video of her cubs. It's one of the most relaxing clips I've seen in a while and makes me want to take up wildlife photography.

Here's your morning dose of cuteness

Okay, lots of people haven't seen The Fox and the Hound , Oliver & Company or One Hundred and One Dalmatians . Maybe they're too young to have seen them and they didn't grow up in Disney-mad households. But surely they've seen Lady and the Tramp . The animated film follows a pampered Cocker spaniel named Lady whose life is forever transformed after her owners welcome a new baby. She meets a stray Schnauzer mix named Tramp who steals her heart, and eventually they fall in love. Today, the official trailer for the live-action remake of the 1955 classic surfaced online and it looks adorable. It seems like Disney won't stop making live-action adaptations until they stop making money. Here's your first look at  Lady and the Tramp , which will air on streaming service Disney+ on November 12.

Cats Will Be Cats

One of the things I always like to visit at my friend Lisa's house is the black Burmese cat because my wife and I can't have one (we have two dogs, a Labrador and a Pit Bull, who hate feline creatures). I'm not sure Selina ever caught a mouse but the last time I went there, she brought me a sand lizard that I think lives underneath the old jackfruit tree at the front yard. I grabbed her by the neck and the reptile dropped out of her mouth. Dead. According to Lisa, her pet bags about two birds a week. She saw Selina snatch a maya last month; the following day a frog succumbed to her attack. Domestic cats aren't just the adorable creatures depicted in unbearably cute Internet videos. They're also lethal hunters. They kill time by killing wildlife, and they are responsible for slaughtering billions of other animals each year. Yes, a cat doesn't look nearly as deadly as the black mamba, as strong as the mountain gorilla or as menacing as the humans, but they shou...