In an effort to make your — and our — workweek better: Here’s a bunch of random photos of animals smiling. Because if this won’t cheer you up, it’s already too late …

Here we go again; it’s the beginning of another seven-day cycle. And not only are we battling the turn of the workweek … again … but we’re trying to function with one hour’s less sleep time. Because for some bizarre reason, we’re still on a farmer’s schedule and think somehow diddling around with clocks gives us more of something we have no control over. Time: It’s a finicky demon indeed.

So in an effort to make your — and our — workweek better: Here’s a bunch of random photos of animals smiling. Because if this won’t cheer you up, it’s already too late …