The Cutest Darn Animals on Houzz

We pay a lot of attention to beloved cats and dogs here on Houzz, but we've never rounded up the other wonderful animals that pop up in our stories. I'm pleased to introduce some of the photographs that make us say, "Awwww, that is so cute!" Without further ado, meet some of the most adorable little guys and gals we've ever laid eyes on from great homes, ranches and gardens on Houzz.

This curious and wily fox hung around an Acadia National Park landscape project during construction and somewhere has a den full of most of the workers' leather gloves.

Tour this fox's beautiful coastal environment in the Maine woods


Three chickens named Ruby, Hiko and Ash live in this beautifully designed chicken coop in Nevada.


Tour the entire modern chicken coop


In creating the Houzz travel guide for Atlanta, I came across goats named Sherman, Tallulah, Daisy and Olive at The Social Goat Bed and Breakfast. The charming establishment, in Atlanta's Grant Park neighborhood, also has cats, Spanish turkeys, chickens, roosters, rabbits, goldfish and koi.


Seriously, writing this ideabook is making me want a pet goat, which I'm quite sure is a not a great idea — for yourself or the goat — when you live in a city.

Tour the rest of this wonderful farm, a proper environment for these guys.


You readers taught me some very interesting things about what this goat's levade was all about in the Comments section for my story about an animal rescue shelter in the mountains of Malibu. You also taught me the word "levade." Thanks!


One of our very first home tours featured the beautiful home of Michael Lee West of Designs by Gollum. The pastoral setting and farm life inspired the beautiful interiors.


This is one of my favorite photographs on Houzz; I would love to hang it in my home. These critters do not only look feathered-and-fluffy cute; they help produce free fertilizer for the garden.


So does this darling cow.

Learn more about improving your soil with manure


I have actually never been able to come across a mini horse and not yelled, "Mini horse!" This one's name is Kokomo, but it bears a striking resemblance to Li'l Sebastian. If you don't get that reference, you need to start watching Parks and Rec on NBC. I promise you'll thank me.


I love the way this duck is looking at the photographer like it's saying, "What are you lookin' at?" I cannot look at a duck in a pool without thinking about the wonderful James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano, so uplifted by the duck family that moved into his pool, and all the problems that began when they flew south for the winter.


In Meg Wolitzer's new book, The Interestings, longtime runners of a summer arts camp are told they have to have an alpaca farm at the camp to keep up with the times and compete with other camps.

While I'm talking pop culture references, the moment that made me choke with laughter in Dude, Where's My Car? is when an ostrich approaches and Ashton Kutcher says, "Dude ... it's a llama!" Llamas were once a relatively rare sight in the States, so maybe one can see how a total stoner did not know the difference between an ostrich and a llama back before Jennifer Garner was a star and Kutcher was a savvy Internet investor and playing Steve Jobs in a movie. However, today these woolly animals have never been more popular.


Not even this stunning stable architecture could take the attention away from these gorgeous creatures.


Wild lovebirds enjoy cooling off atop this Arizona fountain.

More animal love:
Check out the Pets section for all critter-related ideabooks.
See great cats and dogs in design.

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