Adorable ‘teacup pigs’ are latest hit with Brits

Most people go into business to earn a living. Jane Croft did it to bring home the bacon.

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Best bets: ‘ER’ treats its final patient this week

Although doctors (and viewers) have faded in and out throughout the years, the finale is still a moment worth marking. George Clooney has already made his return as Dr. Doug Ross, but the finale still has plenty to look forward to. Rachel Greene, the daughter of late County legend Dr. Mark Greene, is now a med student, and will be making an appearance along with her stepmom, Elizabeth Corday. And so we come full circle. (Two-hour series finale April 2, 9 p.m., NBC.)

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Stylish Santa! In Style’s favorite gifts

In Style editors reviewed hundreds of products and narrowed them down to the top gift ideas for everyone on your holiday gift list, from the modern tot in your life to your favorite glamourista:

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Japanese Automakers Getting Cute at Show

Cute, communicative and cubic seem to be the fashion statement as far as offerings from Japan's "Big Three" automakers Toyota, Honda and Nissan, debuting at the Tokyo auto show later this month.

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Daisy Mae is your typical American Bulldog. She delivered 21 puppies over a 20-hour period six weeks ago. Four of them died during delivery but the Ballard family near Columbia, Illinois, can tell you 17 is still a handful.

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The pets, which grow to be just 14in tall, have become so popular that they are now almost impossible to get hold of in Britain. They have even been snapped up by celebrities, including Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley.

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Sometimes we just need a pic of a cute, furry animal before we get back to blogging about the naked and the drugged.

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Here's a little panda break from all the hard news. And I do mean little panda.

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Canadian rodent takes starring role in tourists' snap and becomes an online sensation CRASHER SQUIRREL

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A WYFF photographer runs across an odd site at Furman University. Don't worry, he later helped the critter out.

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A squirrel has built up a close relationship with a builder who found him when he was only a week old. Nutty even showers with his surrogate "mum", Tony from Stockport, and goes to work with him.

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Are dogs better then people?

I don't think that there can be any serious doubt that my dogs are the cutest dogs that have ever lived. That said the other day someone commented to me that I seem to love my dogs better then I do people and the truth is that, for the most part, I do.

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These pictures are adorable. The photos of animals making 'friends' across species is inspirational. "If They can so can we."

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One 10-year-old Wisconsin girl has a rock-solid excuse for missing the last day of school: a personal note to her teacher from President Barack Obama.

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HUMAN FAITH WITHOUT CASTE

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Veterinarians at Assiniboine Park Zoo have been busy lately trying to keep a baby kangaroo alive. The four month old Red Kangaroo - which weighs just 560 grams - was found lying helpless on the floor of its enclosure after being ejected from her mom's pouch.

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Growing Up the Neat Way

First and foremost, let me begin by stating that I am an unrepentant slob; always have been, always will be. I shouldn't be this way, not after growing up in the white glove inspection household of my parents and attending military school for many years, but I am.

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Excerpt: A cat in China has adopted two orphaned puppies - and is trying to teach them how to catch mice. The female cat - named Tom - nurses the puppies and washes them with her tongue, reports the Yaxin Network.

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I don't think that elephant is named Hannah however.

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Excerpt: Darryl and Dan Culberson were cheapskates before it was cool. And they can prove it. The two brothers have been exchanging the same birthday card since 1973.

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Identity Theft

BEWARE OF IDENTITY THEFT You never know who or what might be trying to impersonate you! Have a good day all! ;)

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When recently-elected RNC chairman Michael Steele called talk show host Rush Limbaugh an "entertainer," the conservative pundit promised a response on his radio show. Monday, Limbaugh tore into Steele, suggesting that as a Republican leader, he's off to a "shaky start."

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This budgerigar has the cutest little speaking voice and .. hang on, what's he saying?

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Abandoned in the snow, this five-day-old badger cub was on the brink of death. Luckily, like most babies, she could raise enough of a racket to wake the neighbours.

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An artists' depiction is above, and the near-complete skeleton at right. The drawing is quite lovely, though the glistening, doe-like eyes do seem to betray a certain modern sensibility.

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Cute. Kittens are cute and then they turn into cats. It's really a tragic thing. One of those tragic elements of the natural world.

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Excerpt: When we told you about the genius blog F*** You Penguin - which takes overly cute animals to task - we prophesied that after years of everyone nuzzling up to fluffy animals in tutus and fairly ODing on their adorability, 2009 was set to be the year of the cute backlash.

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As we have said in the past, cute is in the eye of the beholder. Newborn baby aardvarks may not be your typical bundle of furry joy, but keepers and mama aardvark, Raachael, at the Detroit Zoo are enamored with their most recent arrival, baby Amani, born Dec. 8th.

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The two sweethearts eloped at dawn, destination Africa. They dreamed of marrying in the blazing sunshine, surrounded by lions, zebras and perhaps the odd giraffe.

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