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Illustration: Ollie and Cilio, mid-nap. Back in May, an Instagram reel showed a golden retriever named Ollie and an orange cat named Cilio. At first,...
LBN Myth & Legend Illustration: Waghya, keeping watch at the fort. In Maharashtra, India, people tell the story of Waghya, the dog of the Maratha...
Illustration: Turtle, finally on the way home. A cat named Turtle ran out the door of a Connecticut home in March 2025. For 571 days,...
Illustration: an actress, a red carpet, and a very small puppy. Back in January, actress Sharon Stone walked the red carpet at an awards show...
LBN Looks Back Illustration: Tama, on duty at Kishi Station. In January 2007, a small railway in Wakayama, Japan, hired a new station master. She...
Illustration: Sadie, on the ride home. The RSPCA called her "Britain's loneliest dog." Sadie spent nearly three years in kennels. Then a woman in Devon...
Illustration: Sully gets his first car ride on American soil. A small orange stray hung around a recreation center in Baghdad. A Wisconsin soldier kept...
Illustration: Tiny Tim, home at last. A cat vanished from a Florida home while the family was on vacation. Months later, his owner's sister spotted...
Evanston, Illinois, August 26. Twelve years, closed in one hug. In 2014, Vanessa Antonino left for work in Chicago and came back to find her...
LBN Looks Back Somewhere, a 1952 living room. Sixty million people watching a dog decide an election. On September 23, 1952, a 39-year-old senator named...
LBN Looks Back Beijing, any given afternoon. The cats own this wall and everyone knows it. About 200 cats currently live inside the Forbidden City...
LBN Looks Back Key West, Florida. One veranda, a lot of extra toes. A ship's captain once handed Ernest Hemingway a kitten with six toes....
LBN Looks Back Istanbul, any given afternoon. This is not a stray in the usual sense. Istanbul has so many cats that people just call...
LBN Looks Back Les Carmes prison, Paris, 1794. A pug, a collar, and a war going on outside the walls. In 1794, a Paris prison...
Las Vegas, Sunday afternoon. 296 doodles, one wave pool. A wave pool in Las Vegas filled up with 296 wet, curly-haired dogs on Sunday. By...
LBN Looks Back Egypt, roughly 60 BC. A cat, a crowd, and a soldier who never saw it coming. A Roman stepped on a cat...
LBN Myth & Legend Edo-period Japan, one storm, one raised paw. Say the numbers 9-2-9 out loud in Japanese and you get "ku-fu-ku" — close...
Twelve dogs, one MRI machine, four human emotions on a screen. Show a dog a photo of an angry face and a sad one. To...
LBN Myth & Legend Ithaca, twenty years later. Ancient Greek legend, illustrated. In Homer's Odyssey, a king comes home after 20 years and no one...
LBN Looks Back Shibuya Station, roughly a decade of evenings, one dog who never stopped showing up. Every evening, an Akita named Hachiko walked to...
Fig, mid-viewing, fully committed. Fig the calico kitten found a new show on Netflix. Within seconds she was glued to the screen, paws reaching toward...
Not Milo, but the exact motion in question. Photo: Alice Castro / Pexels. Milo's owner reached out a hand and asked for a paw. Milo...
A Portuguese water dog, the same breed as Sunny. Photo: melchor gama / Pexels. Sunny, the Portuguese water dog who joined the Obama family at...
Not Beau, but the same golden-hour assignment. Photo: Helena Lopes / Pexels. On September 7, a golden retriever named Beau sat down by a lake...
The Chinese zodiac assigns one of 12 animals to every birth year, each carrying its own personality — and, in traditional Chinese numerology, its own...
In Chinese culture, numbers carry weight most Western pet owners never think about. The number 8 (八, bā) sounds like "wealth" (发, fā) — which...
Every dog has a lucky number — they just don't know it yet. Numerology has been assigning meaning to numbers for thousands of years, long...
Pip: There is a dog on the internet wearing a baby dress that is older than most streaming services, and Lucky Bustar covered it with...
Not Piku, but the same low-effort, high-comfort posture. Photo: Karolina Grabowska / Pexels. Somewhere, a mother kept a baby dress in a drawer for decades....
Pip: Lucky Bustar is a site where pets do science and commit crimes, sometimes in the same week. Mara: This episode comes from luckybustar, and...
Not Bailey or Alfie, but the same breed, minus the science. Photo: Jędrzej Koralewski / Pexels. Matt Walker has been allergic to dogs his entire...
Not the suspect, but the same unbothered energy. Photo: Pexels. A woman sat down to pancakes and sausage. She looked away for one second. When...
The target demographic, mid-commute. Photo: urtimud.89 / Pexels. On Wednesday, one lane of a Dunkin' in Quincy, Massachusetts stopped serving humans. For three hours, it...
Not the Whataburger bandana, but the general spirit of today. Photo: Raul G / Pexels. Today is National Dog Day. To mark it, Whataburger just...
Potato, or a prairie dog very much like him, mid-plot. Photo: Pexels. In a TikTok posted by owner @kyrarichter, a prairie dog named Potato locks...
Clover, moving with a purpose. Photo: Pexels. Haley Moore and her dog Clover were out for a walk in an Ottawa neighborhood when Moore suddenly...
Coop. Still watching the door. Photo: Pexels. The door opens. Coop doesn't move. He's been sitting three feet from it for two days, and he's...
Not Jimothy himself, but a fellow raccoon with roughly the same energy. Photo: anne sch / Pexels. A raccoon with an unusually short, round body...
The closest most dogs will get to eclipse-watching, and only because a bird flew by. Photo: Pexels. A total solar eclipse sweeps across Russia, Greenland,...
A high-energy dog in her natural habitat: moving fast, going too far, having the time of her life. Photo: Pexels. Maya was given up twice...
Not Scooter, but the exact face of a dog with no regrets. Photo: Pexels. An Australian dog named Scooter was rushed to an emergency vet...
Meet the reigning champion of nine lives: a 31-year-old cat who, in human years, is pushing well past 140 — and her owner says the...
Two golden retrievers. Now picture roughly 2,395 more. Photo: Mohan Nannapaneni / Pexels. You could hear it from miles away — the unmistakable sound of...
The suspect: red hair, short in stature, wearing a thick coat. Photo: Ralph / Pexels. Canadian police responded to a report of stolen BBQ goods,...
The face of a politician who ran on "Crime" and meant it. Photo: Ale Bustos / Pexels. In a town just outside Boston, a black...
The object of one dog's very public longing. Photo: alleksana / Pexels. At a Miami Marlins game last month, a dog named Jonah watched another...
A golden retriever, mid-negotiation. Photo: Maree Zimny / Pexels. Zebby the golden retriever has one non-negotiable rule about his daily walk: everybody comes, or nobody...
A dog on a doorstep. Whether it is guarding the delivery or casing it is a matter of perspective. Photo: Lisa Fotios / Pexels. Home...
Not the Sydney legend himself, but the vibe is accurate. Photo: Pexels. In Sydney's Chinatown, a friendly orange street cat has quietly become a 4.9-star...
The single warmest square foot in the house, located and claimed within seconds. Photo: Ricardo Oliveira / Pexels. With heat advisories stretching across much of...
Home at last — where a well-travelled senior dog belongs. Photo: Ron Lach / Pexels. Apollo, a 13-year-old dog, disappeared from his family's home in...
A miniature bull terrier, a breed with a well-documented gift for chaos. Photo: Ryan Thomas / Pexels. Britain has an official Naughtiest Dog again, and...
The trading desk. Note the complete absence of a finance degree. Photo: João Jesus / Pexels. A house cat once beat a team of professional...
A wallaby, pictured in a setting substantially more appropriate than a Dutch main road. Photo: Anthony's images / Pexels. Police in the Netherlands received a...
Analysis in progress. Photo: Egorov / Pexels. The most reliable World Cup pundit of the tournament so far is a tuxedo cat in Ireland who...
A dachshund in a backyard: statistically, already halfway to an incident. Photo: Esteban Gilles / Pexels. A Kentucky dachshund found a hole in her own...
Dining with the dog: newly legal in over 900 Hong Kong eateries. Photo: Yaroslav Shuraev / Pexels. For the first time since 1994, dogs in...
Looks innocent. Given a whole lake, it will not stay this size. Photo: Pexels. The most dangerous animal in your local lake might be the...
Not the birthday girl herself, but dressed for the occasion. Photo: Natasha Fernandez / Pexels. A dog turned 15. Her family responded the only way...
A Poodle much like Squilliam, whose late-night barking beat the smoke alarms to the punch. Photo: Carlos Reyes / Pexels. A New Jersey woman is...
A Great Pyrenees guard dog much like Olaf, who now shares farm duty with a very small, very confident roommate. Photo: Ar kay / Pexels....
Magnolia, the tuxedo kitten at the center of it all, is now safe. Photo: Arina Krasnikova / Pexels. A Maryland man is facing charges after...
