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There's no question that a lot of craftsmanship and creativity went into these skillful creations of dubious taste. It's just that they're also kind of also weird and scary. It takes a specific type of person to want to make a 20-foot peeing dachshund sculpture on the front of a building, but the world is...better... for it? At least there's no question that questionable taste and skill go hand in hand.

One doesn't have to go rooting around in history books long to find something extremely weird about our collective past. There are too many history moments that are too dumb to seem real already, and we keep making more every day. If there's one reason to get into history, it's so you can get these sweet historical memes to become one with time.

It's Wednesday, and you've officially made it past half of the week. And though we feel like you've earned congratulations for that alone, now, you have to get through the rest of the week, and that's right, we're here to help with that. 

Welcome to this week's pictures worth more than 1000 words! You're about to embark on a journey of amazing animal photos that will bring you the energy and inspiration that you need to get through the rest of the week more easily. These pictures are cute, they're funny, they're wholesome, and entirely amazing. And each one of them holds a story that will get your imagination spinning out of control.

So, enjoy this week's collection of indescribable pictures and may your week be absolutely amazing!

Given the amount of time we spend just existing, it's pretty likely that we're bound to see a few unlikely occurrences and rare moments in our lives. But thanks to the fact that there's a lot of us all existing at the same time, doing all sorts of stuff, rare moments and unlikely occurrences happen way more frequently than they feel like they should. And that's kind of cool.

There's no question that a lot of craftsmanship and creativity went into these skillful creations of dubious taste. It's just that they're also kind of also weird and scary. It takes a specific type of person to want to make a 20-foot peeing dachshund sculpture on the front of a building, but the world is...better... for it? At least there's no question that questionable taste and skill go hand in hand.

We can't decide if we'd rather see these incredible re-imagined mushroom dragons in the next Pokemon, Monster Hunter, or Dark Souls! 

The extremely talented artist behind the brilliant re-imagination of dragons as mushrooms is Xavier Collette! Xavier Collette was originally born in Belgium and has been living in Brittany, France, for the past decade.

Xavier currently works as an illustrator in many creative and artistic fields! Such as comics, children's books, board games, and concept art. We got a chance to speak with Xavier and discover the inspiration behind his captivating art and the answer was simplistic. Xavier simply wrote, "I like to create worlds." Worlds that involve fantasy and mythological creatures such as fairies, dragons, and more! There is so much imagination to explore when fantasy is your world! 

Follow Xavier Collette on Twitter and Instagram to see more of this artist's incredible artwork! 

You have once again made it to Wednesday, friends, and we know that at this time, you're just starting to feel it- the weight of the week settling in, the countdown toward the weekend starting. Don't worry though. We have exactly what you need to make it through the rest of the week - a shot of inspiration that'll get your imagination running and give you the energy that you need to keep going. 

Every single week, we bring you a collection of these incredibly inspiring pictures of animals - wholesome, funny, strange and absolutely magnificent - the kind of pictures that are worth a thousand words and then some. We can look at them endlessly and not get bored, and we hope that they'll bring you the same kind of inspiration that they give us!

Have an amazing rest of the week, and come back next week for more incredible pictures like these!

There no better way to end this month - and this year - than with some wholesome animal positivity. 

With all the difficult to hear news out there every day, all we wanna do is turn off the news, get off our phones and not look at news ever again. But this news list is one that we promise you won't want to turn away from, because it is all animals and only positivity. It is the celebration of happy-ending stories, new and exciting discoveries, heroes who save animals, and sometimes even hero animals who save humans. 

So, please, enjoy this nothing-but-animal positivity collection of our favorite news stories and start the year off with a true smile on your face and some actually good news to talk to your friends and family about. Have an amazing year, animal lovers, and may next month have as many, if not more, positive animal news stories!

You've done it, friends, you have made it to the very final few days of this year. It's been a hard one, we know. It's been the kind of year where we needed more motivation and inspiration than ever to get through each day. That's exactly what you have us for. You can rest assured that every single week, we have been here and will be here, trying to give you the inspiration that you need.

All it takes is pictures. Capturing animals in weird, funny, wholesome situations that we wouldn't be able to describe in anything less than 1000 words if we tried. Because each of these pictures has a story behind it, and these stories get our imagination going like nothing else in the world. And we know that they do the same for you.

So, enjoy this week's collection of amazing animal pictures, and may you start the year with endless inspiration!

"[w]e definitely have angels among us," say the people at W-Underdogs in a Facebook post whose animal shelter caught fire while they were picking up supply donations. A situation that could have ended in the worst way possible ended incredibly positively, and that is because of a heroic 53-year-old homeless man named Keith Walker who ran into the smoking building and saved each and every one of the animals inside. 

Walker has been homeless ever since he was 13 years old. He had already known the founder of the shelter, Gracie Hamlin, who had let him keep his dog, a pitbull named Bravo, at the shelter every night. On his way to pick up Bravo from the shelter, Walker saw the fire and ran in, rescuing all of the animals in the shelter - 6 dogs and 10 cats.

"I was nervous as hell, I'm not going to lie. I was really scared to go in there with all that smoke. But God put me there to save those animals," Walker told in a statement to CNN. "If you love a dog, you can love anyone in the world. My dog is my best friend, and I wouldn't be here without him, so I knew I had to save all those other dogs."

Sadly, the W-Underdogs headquarters is now uninhabitable, but in another lucky turn, the shelter was just preparing to move to a different location. As they say in another Facebook post: "As fate would have it, today is the first day of our lease of a new facility we planned to be the new W-Underdogs Headquarters. While the new facility is not exactly 'move-in ready' we were able to move the animals safely into the new facility for the night. They are all happy, warm, safe, and comfortable in their new temporary home."

Hamlin told CNN: "He is my guardian angel. Even the firefighters didn't want to handle the dogs. They called animal control, but Keith was already in the building pulling out the cats and dogs until they were all safe." 

We are so, so thankful to Keith Walker and all the people who helped with the rescue and the moving of the animals, and we hope the cats an the dogs will have an easy time getting used to the new place. Good luck in the new year, guys! 

For more happy ending animal stories, click right here!

Scamming your way into a free lobster dinner is dishonest and stupid. But complaining that your lobster is bad, then finishing it, then going to a different restaurant and getting more lobster? That takes some nards, man. It's well known that restaurant owners somehow have all the time in the world to battle their horrible customers, like this lying Karen who got decimated by an owner's response.

Let's be honest, us animal lovers have a tendency to think that all animals are beautiful. There's always something unique and beautiful to find in them. Whether it's their size, a pattern of behavior, or something entirely different, animals are just awesome like that.

But there are some animals where it's enough to simply come across one of their pictures for us to have to do a double take, because even though we may not know anything about them, their looks are enough to amaze us. Twitter user @heisTactic has made a thread listing 10 animals like that - ones that are so beautiful, they are simply impossible to look away from.