Current Animal

Prairie Chickens

Prairie Chickens need kisses because they are so desperate to not be associated with the cowardice of their species that they moved to rural environments: To prove how tough they really are.

It kind of makes you wonder – how many easily scared people move out to the countryside and roll up big bales of hay all day, just to show how strong they are? Probably all of them, or at least the ones who could just get their food at restaurants like the rest of us do.

Instead, they ride around on tractors all day looking for it, thinking that the high vantage point and humongous thresher will…

Sheepdogs

Sheepdogs need kisses because they are only good at their job (herding sheep) because they probably think that sheep are just other sheepdogs who have haircuts that actually allow them to see where they’re going. So, due to the fact that the sheepdog can barely see – and also maybe…

Gorillas

We owe Gorillas kisses because we have been condescending to them. We teach them sign language even though they aren’t deaf, we only put them in bleak documentaries instead of comedies about their potential careers in Major League Baseball, and we have the nerve to pretend that we aren’t related…

Bullfrogs

Bullfrogs need kisses because they are just frogs – there is nothing bullish about them, and in fact they don’t move very much at all, nevermind going around charging at things. It’s like if you were a captain of industry, but inside you wanted to be an unemployed dirtbag, and…

Great White Sharks

Great White Sharks need kisses because they are like cannibals who are forced into court-ordered anger management. You know the kind, where the counsellors are all like, “If you smiled more, you would not want to eat people all the time.” But they do. And everyone else knows, too, and…

Bearded Dragons

Bearded Dragons need kisses because they are an awesome, evolutionary mystery to the human race, as none of our neckbearded types have ever managed to procreate with anyone, much less advance an entire species as such. More specifically, I guess, the kisses ought to go to the Bearded Dragon females,…