Cape Town - It's hard to think of anything better that Christmas. However, if you add the joy animals bring to this amazing time of year, Christmas' goodness gets multiplied by a hundred times. Take a look at these heart-warming stories of how animals made Christmas even better all over the world.
A website called LiveScience.com thought well when they decided to search out the best Christmas animal stories ever. Here are some of their best, and more of our contenders!
Christmas Sheep in Nebraska
This Christmas dressed sheep named Gage went missing in Omaha, Nebraska and was reunited with her owner after the social media hashtag #ChristmasSheep helped her owner to find her.
Eel-powered decorations in Japan
An aquarium in Kamakura, Japan, tastefully lit their Christmas tree with electricity powered from the electric eels! The eels' tank contained two aluminum panels, and each time the animals moved, they generated enough electricity to power one string of flashing white lights on a 2 meter tree in 2010.
Animal Advent calendars in London
The Zoological Society of London have advent calendars during the month of December for their tenants that contain the animals' favourite fare. Much to the delight of the animals, and the visitors, the feast buckets contains, for example, fish for the penguins and crunchy crickets for the meerkats.
Santa shark diving in Utah
In mid-December, the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper, Utah, sent Santa and his helper on a dive into its shark tank.
And best of all ... Puppies - everywhere
This is enough reason to show puppies are the best Christmas gift ever.
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