Chew on This - $20,000 Pooch, Obamouse and More!

by Evan Jacobs (Subscribe to Evan Jacobs's posts): May 28th 2010 @ 5:00PM Filed Under: Chew on This

Rounding up our favorite animal stories, photos, and videos on the web each week!

Pricey Training

For just $20,000, you can have your own specially trained bomb-sniffing dog. We're sure he's worth the money but for that much, maybe he can do other tricks as well? Just asking.[via The Hill]
Sneaky Antelopes

Male antelopes feign danger to keep females in heat close -- thereby giving themselves more opportunities to mate. Wonder where they learned that old trick? [via Time]
Movin' on Up

Although they live in a traffic light now, these sparrows hope someday to find a posh pad in the Times Square Jumbotron. [via the New York Post]
Four More Y--Hey, What's That?

"My fellow Americans, this filibuster is just serving as a distraction from-- Whoa, is that a mouse?" [via Yahoo]
The Squirreling Has Come

In Georgia, 17,000 people lost power when a squirrel invaded a power plant, a blatant first attack in the Great Human-Squirrel War. [via AJC]