Something I received via email today...

From the actual e-mail:
At times nature can be cruel, but there is also a raw beauty, and even a certain justice manifested within that cruelty.

The alligator, one of the oldest and ultimate predators, normally considered the "apex predator", can still fall victim to implemented 'team work' strategy, made possible due to the tight knit social structure and "survival of the pack mentality" bred into the canines.

See the remarkable photograph below courtesy of Nature Magazine. Note that the Alpha dog has a muzzle hold on the gator preventing it from breathing, while another dog has a hold on the tail to keep it from thrashing. The third dog attacks the soft underbelly of the gator.

Not for the squeamish!

A classic from the archives...

Proof that dogs have humans wrapped around their little finger paw...

From an article entitled "Puppy School":

Welcome puppies. You are about to embark upon the most important phase in your life and that is proper education. Our major principle out here is to teach you to be an individual, to teach you how not to bow down to the human, teach you how to make life miserable for the humans in short do everything possible to embarrass and humiliate the humans. One day you are going to go out in this world and maybe adopt a human being and if you are lucky HE will behave the way you want to, if not the old adage comes true "it's a dog's life".

Whoever said "Let sleeping dogs lie" didn't sleep with dogs.

The first thing you discover when you bring a dog onto your bed is the striking difference in weight (and determination) between an alert, awake dog and a dog at rest.

You've heard about the Mother Mary appearing in odd and unique places all across the world, right?

Yeah, the face of Jesus also appears in strange places, now and again too.

But who knew in this day & age that Jesus would actually appear on the behinds of dogs across the country???

I have to admit... I checked... tonight.

Check out these videos of dogs that appear to be mean and ferocious, but their bark is worse than their bite.

These are quite funny, actually...

This is a fun read that is incredibly informative at the same time!

Take one former president, one dog, an "interesting" prop... and what do you get?

This dog has his own blog.

Here is Hank the Dog's take on computer email...