Stop, Bullies! Loving and Protective Mom Gives Joy to the Life of a Calf with Dwarfism
Getting bullied is painful. It can break someone’s heart when he cannot find friends, much less get avoided by everyone for being different. The experience makes you cringe deeper and deeper inside, even though you’re not to blame for the imperfection that makes others shun you — even sneer at you and say words intended to demean your character. Photo: Tiktok/knucklebumpfarms Getting bullied is painful even for animals like Watson. He’s the oldest but smallest calf in the Knuckle Bump Farms. No, we humans have no idea...
Pollinator Loss Lowers Healthy Crop Production, May Lead to Hundreds of Thousands of Excess Deaths
Pollinator numbers are dwindling, with research showing beekeepers in the United States alone lost 45.5% of their managed honey bee colonies between April 2020 and April 2021. The average year-to-year loss since 2006, meanwhile, is also high: estimated at 39.4%. This issue has an impact on our food supply, with nearly 100 of the U.S.’s specialty crops requiring pollination. Now, a new study has found that the interruption to pollination is impacting global health. Researchers from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health...
Golden Retriever Alerts Pregnant Owner To Dangerous Infection
A pregnant mama in Missouri is crediting her beloved dog with possibly saving the life of her unborn child. 30-year-old Brittany Welsh was 8 months pregnant when her golden retriever, Charlie, began acting strangely. Photo: TikTok/@mamabwelsh As she shared in a now-viral TikTok video, the dog wouldn’t stop nudging her belly and bopping her legs with his nose. It reportedly was because of his insistent nuzzling that she ended up going to the doctor to get checked out and that’s when the they discovered she was suffering from a...
Overworked Cats Making Biscuits Are Taking TikTok By Storm
If there’s one thing we can agree on about the internet, it’s the fact that cats are a huge part of it. Ever since the beginning days of the world wide web and social media, cats have played a key role in pop culture and viral trends. Photo: Pexels/Artem Makarov One of the most recent viral trends to take TikTok by storm is from cat owners showing off their “overworked cats making biscuits.” The cat owners pretend their cats are in a biscuit factory and are intensely kneading bread. It’s a joke people who...
Woman Uses Pop-Tart to Lure Stray Dog to Safety
This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! In March of 2013, I was driving down a highway, approaching a small country town in South Carolina, when I saw a small brown dog lying on the side of the road chewing on something. As an avid animal rescuer, my heart always goes out to the animals I see on the side of the road, but this dog had such a magnetic pull on me, I had to turn around. DOG. PHOTO: PIXABAY / MATHIAS LECHNER As soon...
Geriatric Orca Strands Self on Flagler County Beach, Succumbs to Illness Before Rescuers Could Intervene
An elderly female orca stranded on a beach in Florida has died from an unknown illness, reports NOAA. This is the first-ever incidence of a killer whale beaching itself along the Sunshine State’s coastlines to be reported. At this point, illness seems to be the cause of death vs. human ignorance. Killer Whales Whales and other sea creatures will strand or beach themselves from time to time, much to the torment of experts in the field. Marine biologists don’t fully understand the phenomenon, but it almost always follows some sort...
Handsome Boy Not Cut Out for Shelter Life Struggles with Hectic, Overcrowded Environment
Stress studies undertaken in the last few years confirm that rescue and shelter environments cause stress in animals. Some of them are so freaked out by everything going on around them that they fail to thrive and start losing their hair. Some are withdrawn and hide where no one can see them. They are, in essence, falling apart and need to get into foster programs or forever homes stat! Photo: Pima Animal Care Center Meet Kogi Kogi is a neutered sable-and-white American Pit Bull Terrier and Chinese Shar-pei mix believed to be under 3 years...
“Walrus from Space” Detectives Needed for British Antarctic Survey
Back in 2021, the call went out for internet sleuths to comb satellite images for walruses. Why? Because the British Antarctic Survey — in connection with the WWF — is trying to get an accurate estimate or count of walrus populations. According to the U.K. program, this is how it breaks down: Photo: Pixabay/PublicDomainImages What is Walrus from Space? “Walrus are facing the reality of the climate crisis, and we need to know more about how they are affected. WWF and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are asking the public to...
Depressed Shelter Dog Won’t Leave Her Bed, Even For Treats
Sadly, many working dog breeds end up in shelters because people don’t have the time, energy, or desire to exercise these dogs both mentally and physically. Life in a shelter is stressful and especially hard on dogs that are constantly overlooked. For the past 42 days, a husky named Pink has watched as people pass by her and adopt other dogs. She just wants someone to love. Julie Saraceno, a volunteer dog walker for Tri-Cities Animal Shelter, posted a video on TikTok showing just how depressed Pink is at the shelter. She wrote,...
New Year, New Opportunity to Use These 10 Tools and Resources!
Happy New Year! (Can we still say that, heading toward mid-month?) We’re taking this moment to re-introduce some of the multitude of tools and resources that we’ve got for you here at HASS. Here are ten you can put into action right now! Please browse and search the HASS website for even more, more, more. Because seriously, we’ve got a huge amount of pro resources, blogs, and webinars that can help you in your mission to keep families together and save animals’ lives. Pet Eviction Calculator Use our easy...
