Horse Sits On Beanbag And Plays Cards With Owner
When most people think of training pets to do tricks, we imagine teaching a dog to “sit” or “play dead.” Dogs are probably the most popular animal to teach tricks to, but other animals are just as capable of learning and playing along! Some cats are trained to perform tricks, as well as more unique pets like rats and rabbits. But learning a new skill isn’t something reserved for smaller, indoor pets. Farm animals can learn them as well! Photo: Pexels/Kaboompics .com In fact, one woman in Austria has a whole camp...
After Living In The Forest For Two Months, This Dog Was Reunited With Her Family
When Nina Love got a call about a dog that had been living in the woods nearby, she knew exactly what to do. The Philadelphia-based entrepreneur, who founded the animal rescue group The Black Thornberry, is known locally for helping strays and reuniting owners with their lost pets. Trekking out into the forest, she set up a camera to find the pup’s hideaway. Then, with the help of a partner, she set a trap so that she could rescue the lost dog. Photo: Pixabay/Marco Leeggangers It worked! When she brought the dog to her local...
Mama And Her 10 Puppies Found Living Underneath A House
When the team at Stray Rescue of Saint Louis got a call about a stray on the streets, they knew exactly how to respond. But this case would be a little trickier than usual: “We’d been tracking a skinny, nursing stray, surviving the mean streets. But we couldn’t rescue mom until we found her puppies,” the team explained on YouTube. PHOTO: YOUTUBE / STRAY RESCUE OF ST. LOUIS Fortunately, the stray — who the team named Hulu after she was rescued — didn’t take long to return to her den after searching for...
Dog Saves Baby’s Life After Persistently Alerting Parents That She Wasn’t Breathing
A family’s Boston Terrier is being hailed a hero after he saved their baby’s life. Jeff and Kelly Dowling of Connecticut thought something was wrong with the 8-year-old pup, Henry, since he began acting weird. Photo: YouTube/Good Morning America While their 9-month-old baby slept in her nursery, Henry kept opening the door by head-butting it and standing in there. Kelly grew frustrated and kept shooing him out of the room so he wouldn’t wake the baby, but Henry continued to keep going in the room. Since Henry was so...
UPS Driver Finds Woman’s Missing Dog Just In Time For Christmas
Christmas came early for one Tennessee woman, whose missing dog was hand-delivered by a UPS driver who found the pup along his route. Now the driver is being applauded for stopping to fetch a lost dog during one of his busiest days of the year. According to FOX Business, UPS driver Darrell Slack was busy making Christmas deliveries when a woman who lived on his route asked him to look out for her missing dog, Pete. Photo: YouTube/WRCB Chattanooga The 7-year-old Jack Russell Terrier (whose owner described him “a runner”) had just...
GreaterGood Charities Provides Supplies and Support to People and Pets After Devastating Tornadoes
On the night of December 10th, and continuing on into December 11th, a series of unprecedented weather events struck in six U.S. states. At least 30 tornadoes touched down in various parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, and Tennessee, leaving unspeakable devastation in their wake. Kentucky was hit especially hard; one of the tornadoes there, which originated in Arkansas, was on the ground for nearly two hours, covering more than 220 miles, the longest distance ever traveled by a tornado. It killed dozens of people and...
The ‘Loneliest Orca In The World’ Is Still Being Neglected
Lolita was taken from her family when she was just 4 years old. Handed over to the Miami Seaquarium for $6,000, she was forced into a life of captivity and made to perform day after day for the next 45 years. According to marine welfare watchdog organization Sea World of Hurt, Lolita is now the only surviving member of the pod of 90 orcas she once belonged to. Lolita was taken from her family when she was just 4 years old. This beautiful creature’s existence was marginalized, quite literally, as Lolita has been confined to one of the...
Wisconsin’s Capital City Bans Cat Declawing
Madison, the capital city of Wisconsin, just announced an immediate ban on cat declawing. They join a dozen other cities in the U.S., including the state of New York, and over 42 countries worldwide who have banned the cruel procedure. On the 7th of December, Madison’s City Council unanimously voted to pass the ordinance that “prohibit removing or disabling a cat’s claws by performing a declawing procedure.” Photo: Pixabay/gatchinakuprin The ruling was a big win for cats in Madison. “Today, every cat in Madison...
Dog Walking Habits by State
Jackie Brown Pet expert Jackie Brown has spent 20 years following her passion for animals as a writer and editor in the pet publishing industry. She is contributing writer for National Geographic’s Complete Guide to Pet Health, Behavior, and Happiness: The Veterinarian’s Approach to At-Home Animal Care (April 2019) and author of the book It’s Raining Cats and Dogs: Making Sense of Animal Phrases (Lumina Press, 2006). Jackie is a regular contributor to pet and veterinary industry media and is the former editor of numerous pet...
How technology is improving your pet’s life
From pet cams to automated toys, here’s a look at some of the technological tools and devices that enhance the health and happiness of our dogs and cats. Technology has become such an integral part of our society that it’s hard to imagine life without it. It’s also making big waves in the pet industry, which offers a growing number of state-of-the-art tools and devices that make life easier, healthier and happier for our dogs and cats – and for us. Some of these devices, like microchips, have been around for a while;...
