Best in Shoes – 2016
The judge and the Lagotta Romagnolo’s handler both wore blue, knee-length skirts that really showed off the muscle tone of their legs.
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Ringling Caves!
The elephants are packing their trunks. By any standard, today’s decision by the Ringling Circus to phase out its elephant acts represents a seismic shift in the use of…
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Mother Carries Shot Pit Bull to Safety
It started out as the same hike that Andi Davis does every day to the top of one of the mountains near where she lives in Phoenix, Arizona. But this time, close to the top,…
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Liberators or Terrorists?
When 100 people, mostly women from various rescue groups, rescued 178 beagles from a research lab in Brazil last week, nobody called them terrorists. The five security officers…
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Do Pets Prevent Sudden Death in Children with Epilepsy?
A group of Brazilian researchers wondered if the presence of a pet in the home of a child with epilepsy might reduce their risk of dying from SUDEP. They found that of the 1,092…
The Right Music for Cats
Greyhound Shock Angers Australians
Holiday Gift for Elephant Music Lovers
The Yeti Bear
Chickens with Flu and Pigs Who Dive
A few items from around the world of factory farming this week: Bird Flu in the U.S.: As of Tuesday, May 5th, just under 26 million…
The Right Music for Cats
In a lighter vein than usual on this blog (!): What kind of music do cats prefer: Jazz? Classical? Bluegrass? New Age? The answer: None of…
Ringling Caves!
The elephants are packing their trunks. By any standard, today’s decision by the Ringling Circus to phase out its elephant acts represents a seismic shift in…
Greyhound Shock Angers Australians
“Make no mistake,” writes greyhound racer Kevin Pitstock. “Greyhound racing in Australia is teetering on the brink of destruction.” In the wake of an investigative report…
Secrets of the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center
If you haven’t read the shocking, eye-opening report by the New York Times on the secret, government-operated US Meat Animal Research Center and its “one overarching…
Ridiculously Cute
Light relief – a break from our usual fare! . . . Baby rhino and baby goat do their thing. (More below)
Pit Bulls Do It Best
Stealing the show at Western Oregon University softball game.
Catching the Bass
Intriguing video of a kitty trying to catch air waves coming out of a sub-woofer. (Maybe she’s assuming that a sub-woofer is some kind of sub-canine?)
Baby Pigs Succumb to New Virus. Humans Next?
How alarmed should you be about the corona virus that’s killed seven million baby pigs in the last year? So far it hasn’t mutated into anything…
. . . Speaking of Photobombs
After posting about the lion who photobombed a visitor to Lion Park, I was reminded of a few other famous photobombs: The ray who bombed a…
Lion Photobombs Park Visitor
Lina Jek simply wanted her husband, Chris, to take a photo of her with the African savannah in the background. But Chris, a wildlife photographer, got…
Does Religion Trump Animal Protection?
Denmark has been much in the news over the killing of Marius the giraffe in a Danish zoo. But not much has been said about the…
Latest Royal Hunting Stats
Prince Harry in 2004 in South America with the water buffalo he’d just shot How many animals does the British Royal Family kill every year? The revelation…
The Dogs of Sochi
At least if you’re a human visiting the Sochi Olympics (and despite what we’ve heard about toothpaste bombs, toxic yellow water, and homophobia), you’ll probably make…
Cat or Catalepsy?
Is this a) an animatronic head on a stick being used to place people in a cataleptic trance? Or … [readon] b) a real cat? And…
Holiday Gift for Elephant Music Lovers
Meet the Thai Elephant Orchestra. They’re all retired elephants who spent their lives serving the timber industry of Thailand until logging was brought to an end…
Mother Carries Shot Pit Bull to Safety
It started out as the same hike that Andi Davis does every day to the top of one of the mountains near where she lives in…