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The Winners: Gretel, Jonas It's been an exciting few weeks here at Paw Nation as the most adorable pets in the land battled it out to decide who was the cutest of the cute. After hundreds of thousands of votes from our readers, the most darling dog and the cutest cat have been determined: Gretel and Jonas! Gretel kept a pretty firm lead over Jackson in the final round, but when it came down to the kitties, it was a different matter entirely, with the winner percentages sticking close to 50 percent each for the entire week. Congratulations to our grand-prize winners Gretel and Jonas (pictured above), whose owners will enjoy a trip to a pet-friendly destination (see the great prize details ...

Tad Motoyama/Los Angeles Zoo Bruno, the Los Angeles Zoo's 30-year-old male orangutan, chose the Texas Longhorns football team to be the winner of this year's BCS National championship, which will be played tomorrow at 5 p.m. PST (watch it on ABC). Exactly how does an ape prognosticate the results of a football game? Today, keepers placed two fruit-filled papier-mâché figures, decorated as the mascots for University of Texas and the University of Alabama, in the orangutan habitat. Bruno chose to chow down on the figure representing the Longhorns, thereby making his pick known to the world. We have to wonder, though, if Alabama's mascot was a banana instead of Big Al, would the tide have ...