Special Needs Dog Is Still Looking For Forever Home After Being Stood Up By Potential Adopter
A 9-month-old American bully with spina bifida is still looking for a forever home after being stood up by a potential adopter. The adorable pup was rescued by Peaches Bully Rescue, an Ohio-based rescue dedicated to saving bully breeds, and named Jack. After receiving emergency vet care, he was taken in by a loving foster family. Jack is a typical puppy who loves to play and meet new people, but has limited mobility and needs to wear a diaper. Photo: Facebook/Peaches Bully Rescue “He has so much to offer a family and so much love to...
Check out these Return to Home resources
Return to Home (traditionally known as Return to Owner) is one of the most important programs you can have in place. We hope the first thing you do when finding a lost or stray pet is to try and find its home. Whether or not you’re participating in the No Place Like Home Challenge in March, there is plenty of information to be gleaned from our resources page. Below you will find just a few (of many) that can help when it comes to starting or expanding your own Return to Home programs. Does...
Shelter Names Special Cat After Girl Who’s Been Donating to Rescues Across the Country
This story was originally shared in the Clear the Shelters Adoption Story Challenge on ShelterChallenge.com. Create your own free Shelter Challenge account and vote for your favorite shelter or rescue group to win cash and prizes. Every time you vote we’ll give an extra donation to shelters! At the end of July, we received a card and letter from a young lady in Pennsylvania. Her name is Avery, and she is amazing. Avery took her love of animals and started a fundraising page. She then took those donations and purchased gift cards, which...
Foster Fails and Best Buddies Adopted Together: Rescue Cat Success Stories
These stories were originally shared in the Clear the Shelters Adoption Story Challenge on ShelterChallenge.com. Create your own free Shelter Challenge account and vote for your favorite shelter or rescue group to win cash and prizes. Every time you vote we’ll give an extra donation to shelters! Shelter Volunteer Can’t Help But Have a Foster Kitten Fail I fostered these two felines from Huntsville Animal Services located in Huntsville, Alabama. They were sickly and underweight. It was a foster failure; I adopted both. PHOTO: KAREN...
Drone Captures The Moment A Giant Crocodile Leaps From The Water And Snaps At It
Crocodiles are not an animal to be messed with, even from behind the safety of a drone as one man found out. Johani Mamid is a crocodile feeder, but he also frequently films the majestic predators at the Crocodile Park in Broome, Western Australia. He uses a drone since it’s a pretty safe way of getting close to the crocs without much risk. At least, that’s what he initially thought. However, he was in for quite the shock when one of the crocodiles he was filming tried to attack his drone. As shocking a moment as it was when the...
Woman Sets Up Camera To Figure Out Why She Can’t Sleep And Discovers Her Cat Is Pawing Her All Night
Cats can be quite the little pests – especially when it’s the middle of the night and you’ve got to get your sleep but your cat has other ideas. As cat owners, we’ve all been there. Still, as much as our little felines might get under our skin when we’re trying to sleep, we can’t help but love them and their silly ways. One cat owner named Susie, who has the username @susieandmollie on TikTok, had been experiencing some major sleep disruptions. But she couldn’t figure out what was going on, so she...
Pet Cow Loves To Watch Her Favorite TV Show Every Day
Humans love watching TV. And we all have our different preferences when it comes to TV shows. But we’re not the only ones – sometimes animals have their own TV obsessions, as viewers of This Morning found out. Apparently, there is a 10-month old calf named Honey who has an obsession watching The Chase. How cute is that? The sweet little calf was born via C-section on a farm in Cornwood, Devon in England. When Honey was born, she was quite weak. In fact, she wasn’t much bigger than the size of a terrier, which meant that it...
Muskoxen Are Growing In Population After Facing Near Extinction
Muskoxen are quite interesting animals who have been around for ages. In fact, their species have been known to have existed in prehistoric times and shared the world with wooly mammoths and sabertooth tigers! Having been around for at least 2.5 million years, these muskoxen traveled across the Bering Strait land bridge into North America roughly 2 million years ago. They are some of the only megafaunas from the arctic region that have lasted this long – apart from reindeer – as other animals like wooly mammoths, sabertooth...
Do Cats Get High From Catnip?
It’s always fun to watch a cat under the influence of catnip. The herb seems to get them in a silly and sometimes spaced out mood. But why? What is it about this mysterious herb that gets cats behaving like they’re high? Catnip is officially called Nepeta cataria, and it’s an herb within the mint family. It’s common around many parts of the world, however, it’s originally from parts of Asia and Europe. It can be often found growing as a weed beside roads. Because it is drought-resistant, a lot of people will...
US Bird Removed From The Endangered Species List After Populations Found Thriving
The interior least tern is a bird that was classified on the Endangered Species list. They are the smallest bird of the tern family, weighing only two ounces. The species suffered from many different threats. Back in the 19th century, they were hunted down for their feathers which were used in hat making. In addition to that, their nesting habitat along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers were virtually destroyed with dam and levee construction. But as of the 12th of January, there is exciting news. These birds are now able to leave the list...
