Shear Eye for the... oh, never mind. But Shrek cleans up pretty nice! (That's "nicely," in some dialects.)

The BBC launches Pet TV in May. Mark my words: three years from now, British dogs and cats will be exhibiting substandard vocabularies, stunted social skills, and epidemic obesity.

And here is a community service warning from the Humane Society to you easterners on the perils of snacking on cicadas.