Comfort Creatures

Updated: 11 Sep 2025 • 161 episodes
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Comfort Creatures is a show for people who prefer their friends to have paws instead of hands! Every week, Alexis and Ella talk to guests about their pets or creatures that give them comfort, discuss their favorite fictional critters, learn about pets in history, and discover differences between pet ownership across the pond. Whether you have a giant sloth, two siamese skinks, or just know way too much about unicorns, every animal friend is welcome on Comfort Creatures!

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Ella had a Scottish adventure and may have seen a mythical beast! Alexis has stumbled across a creature that really SHOULD be a mythical beast. We're back at it this week, as well as ramping up for our Read-A-Long! The live stream for the first half of The House on The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune will be on Sunday Septemb

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03 Sep 2025 • EN

Read-A-Long Reminder!

Ella was trapped in Scotland for longer than expected, so we will be back with our regular animal content next week. We wanted to remind everyone that we are doing our Read-A-Long this month! We'll be reading The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune! The livestream for the first half of the book (up to chapter 11) wil

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28 Aug 2025 • EN

154: Hot Animals

While we do love chatting about how gorgeous certain creatures are -- check out our crossover episode with the gang from Reading Smut if that sounds like a bit of you -- today we mean hot as in temperate. Toasty. Real life phoenixes, if you will. Alexis teaches us about bugs in balmy climes and Ella explains that when

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14 Aug 2025 • EN

153: Beetles and Beatles

We're not discussing scouse boys with funny hair in the '60s (greatest band of all time etc etc yes we know) but we ARE talking about June bugs, Ancient Egyptian amulets and the existential question of life and death. Beetles, folks! Beetles! We also have an excellent Ready Pet Go from Aly and the unruly mob! As ever,

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Nothing in the ocean should be bigger than a Megladon or a Blue Whale. You heard it here first: we're dying on this hill. And did you know that Zebra sharks can be partial to a belly rub? All this plus talk of banana-sized teeth, hidden mouths and more Titanic hot takes on this week's ep!   Send us YOUR pet stories (Re

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31 Jul 2025 • EN

151: Big Old Cats

Let's get historical with lions! This week, Ella does a little dive into pre-historic lions. Were they huge? You betcha! Were the manes the same? You gotta tune in to find out! Alexis learns some fun mythology about sphinx and their riddles! Plus, we discuss British game shows and we have an info-dump on mammals from K

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