Pets

Think you're the biggest Adele fan out there?

Move over and make room for Rev!

In a positively adorable video that has received over two million hits in just a few days, this dog is awakened by a version of "Make You Feel My Love" and proceeds to sing right along. See for yourself:

Dog Sings Along to Adele

In other cute canine news from the week:

• A University of Illinois graduate received her diploma alongside her service companion.
• A one-eyed dog embraced the woman who saved his life.
• A dog got REALLY excited over the prospect of a pet cat.

More bad news today for Justin Bieber.

On the heels of being named the most unfavorable singer in the country, Bieber has been told he must shell out a few thousand dollars if he ever wants to see his pet monkey again.

In March, German custom officials in Munich quarantined the animal because it was illegal to bring him into the country. He's been residing in a local shelter for the past two months.

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You often hear anecdotes of animals being able to experience and express humanlike emotions, and we sometimes see signs of this in our own pets.

This would be one of those times.

Eva Armstrong, a director of Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue, heads a volunteer-run rescue group that has saved more than 800 dogs to date.

On a recent trip to a high-kill "shelter" in Alabama, volunteers rescued a dachshund they named Captain Morgan because he had only one eye.

The night he was rescued, Captain Morgan slept at the foot of Eva's hotel bed. She took care of him until he was adopted by a family months later.

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A young woman and her service dog melted hearts across the web when they showed up to her college graduation in matching caps and gowns.

The cute graduate, who received her diploma in a wheelchair accompanied by her pooch, became the talk of the University of Illinois - and Reddit:

The photo was taken at Saturday's convocation ceremony of the College of Applied Health Sciences, and is basically all that is right with the world.

"This is my service dog, Hero, after we graduated with our Master's degrees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign," she wrote in a caption.

Yes, after WE graduated. That's not just sweet, she swears he earned it!

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Cats are cute. A dog that really wants one to play with? Cuter still.

Specifically, a female tabby baby kitten would really make his day!

He's been telling his owner that he wants one really, really bad, and today ... well, he's got some big news, as you'll see in the funny video below.

That is one excited dog. Has he been reading Reddit or something?

Dog Wants a Kitty

The video was made for the group Pets Add Life, which promotes adoption. Cute and for a good cause. Talk about warm and fuzzy feelings all around.

Taylor Swift is getting into the meme craze.

And the online cat craze as well.

The singer Tweeted a photo of her kitten this week, including with the shot of Meredith and a message that reads: "USE YOUR STOMACH AS A PILLOW."

"Found her sleeping like this," Swift wrote. "No idea how she didn't suffocate on her own fur."

The pet's full moniker is Meredith Grey and, yes, she's named after Ellen Pompeo's Grey's Anatomy character.

Will this meme grow as viral as McKayla Maroney not being impressed by things or as popular as Clint Eastwood and his Eastwooding? Probably not.

But it's very cute!

The above headline pretty much speaks for itself, but when a bear and a monkey race on bicycles (only in China), what's the worst that could happen?

We leave it up to you to decide ... if you want to sit through it:

Bear Eats Monkey After Bike Race

Spoiler alert: The animals bikes' collide during the performance at Shanghai's Wild Animal Park. It does not appear like either animal finished the race.

It also does not look like the monkey survives the subsequent mauling by the bear, making for a WTH viral video moment if ever there were one.

In other news, it's almost lunchtime?

A rogue squirrel has become a viral sports star for his base-running skills.

The rebellious rodent amusingly and daringly made a move onto the field during a recent college baseball game between Kansas and Wichita State.

He ran the bases with surprising proficiency, but the critter was eventually "caught stealing" by Tyler Baker, who scooped him up in a batting helmet.

No word if they counted this toward Baker's fielding percentage:

Squirrel Runs the Bases

Say hello to Kia the wonder puppy.

Officials in Kansas City found this terrier-schnauzer mix locked inside an impounded car yesterday, where she had seemingly been abandoned for one month.

According to The Kansas City Star, a tow company employee was checking on vehicles for auction when he came upon the canine and called the police.

The car was then unlocked. And Kia was taken to a local animal shelter.

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Nature guide Paul Templer was leading a group down a river near Zimbabwe's Victoria Falls in kayaks when a male hippo attacked them.

"The solid whack I felt behind me took me by surprise," Templer told The Guardian (UK). "I turned just in time to see [apprentice] Evans."

"He had been flung out of his boat, flying through the air. His boat, with his two clients still in it, was lifted halfway out of the water on the hippo's back."

Templer then instructed another apprentice to guide everyone to a cluster of rocks nearby as he attempted to rescue Evans from the water.

But before he could, "I was engulfed in darkness," he recalls.

"It was as if I had suddenly gone both blind and deaf."

That's because he'd been swallowed by a hippo.

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