Owner Enraged After Disabled Family Cat Is Euthanized Without Consent
Mush was a disabled cat with a spinal deformity that caused his lower back to sag, making it difficult for New Jersey pet to move around. Even so, the 15-year-old cat had a family that loved him deeply, and they’re still struggling to deal with what happened when animal control showed up at their house unannounced and took their beloved cat away. According to Patch.com, the disabled cat was removed from his yard by an animal control officer who mistook Mush for a feral cat who’d been hit by a car. The officer knocked on the...
Man Feeds Dozens Of Orphaned Raccoons In Honor Of His Late Wife
A very adorable video has been making the rounds on the internet after one man from Nova Scotia in Canada was filmed feeding the local raccoons on his back porch. James Blackwood, the man in the video, is a retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. He has spent the last 25 years consistently caring for these adorable creatures, and has even proclaimed himself to be a “Racoon Whisperer.” According to Blackwood, the feeding of the raccoons was originally an undertaking started by his late wife. However, just before she passed,...
Maddie’s Weekly Roundup: How PAWS Atlanta’s community was their lifeline, ASPCA Cornell Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Conference available online and more!
Below is a brief round-up of new blog posts and resources we’ve added over the past week. How one Pet Foster Stimulus Grant recipient’s community was their animal welfare organization’s lifelineIn need of a feel-good story? As foster care has become the saving grace for many animal welfare organizations in times of Covid and onward, Pet Foster Stimulus Grant recipient, PAWS Atlanta in Atlanta, GA, was no different. What’s more was that they discovered just how amazing their community was! When PAWS...
Gosling Recognizes A Man At The Park And Comes Waddling Over To Say Hi
We all have a favorite person in our lives – someone who means the world to us and makes us happy to be around them. It’s also a very nice feeling when we’re the person in someone’s life that they absolutely cherish. For Doug Carleton, he happens to be a revered member of the group of geese who live in his local park. They get incredibly excited to see him every time he goes to visit. Carleton has been visiting the geese of his park for many years now, and as a result, he has come to befriend all the geese who live...
Amazon Engineers Made An App That They Claim Will Translate A Cat’s Meows Into Words
Who else has ever wondered what your cat is trying to convey with their meows? Javier Sanchez, a former Amazon engineer that worked on Alexa, has shared some insight into the possible future of feline communication. Sanchez now works as a project manager at a tech company called Akvelon, which is located in Bellvue, Washington. As reported by King5, his latest undertaking is that of the app, MeowTalk. When completed, it is supposed to be able to “translate” all the feline vocalizations so that humans can hopefully better...
Arianna Grande Is Opening An Animal Rescue Center
Everyone knows that Ariana Grande has a soft spot in her heart for animals. The singer has even stated in the past that she sometimes even prefers pets to people – a sentiment that I can definitely empathize with. Ariana is also a proud dog mom to 10 rescues, and she isn’t stopping there. She’s using her position of influence in order to do something to help benefit animals in need. On Wednesday, Ariana took to Twitter to announce her latest passion project: opening an animal rescue center. Her rescue will be called Orange...
Horse Loses An Eye After Being Hit In The Face With A Firework
The beginning of November always sees the event known as Bonfire Night, an annual celebration in the UK. As the name might suggest, it’s the perfect night to celebrate using fireworks. However, this year’s festivities were marred for one male horse from Aberdeenshire after he suffered an injury. The horse, named Dettori, sustained horrible injuries after a man set off a 30-minute display next to a field full of horses. Dettori’s owners said in their GoFundMe that the man’s actions resulted in “excruciating pain...
Tiny Chihuahua Hitches Ride On Big Dog’s Back As He Swims At The Lake
As The Beatles so famously stated, “I get by with a little help from my friends.” And that sentiment is one that holds true to all of us. No matter who we are, we can all get by with a little help from our friends, and this includes our furry friends. They, too, can use assistance from their companions. And one little Chihuahua named Tim is the perfect example of this. The little pooch, also affectionately known as Tiny Tim, was filmed during a trip to a lake in McHenry, Illinois, getting carried around the water by his friend...
Cat Takes First Trip To Beach And Develops Strong Opinion About The Wind
This story originally appeared at Shareably. Taking our animals around the world to experience their “firsts” can be some of the most magical and funny moments in both our lifetimes. Especially depending on what type of animal they are. Some animals get the zoomies where they cannot stop running, some animals are easily spooked by any new noise or sensation, and some just quietly form very strong opinions that can be read all over their furry faces. When one family decided to take their cat to the beach they quickly realized he...
New Monkey Species Discovered, But There Are Less Than 300 Left On Earth
A new primate species has been discovered in southeast Asia. With at most 260 of the monkeys left on Earth, however, the Popa langur is dangerously close to extinction. With so few alive, the monkey has been classified as “critically endangered.” “Sadly this is a bittersweet discovery due to the limited number of individuals left in the wild and fragmented populations,” wrote Roberto Portela Miguez, Senior Curator in Charge of Mammals at the London Natural History Museum, in a published release. The Popa langur was...
