Study Shows Cats Recognize When They’re Being Spoken To In A “Baby Voice”
There is something unusual that many cat owners have in common, and that is the fact that they speak with a cat voice. It’s like a baby voice, but for cats. Perhaps cat owners do it because they want a two-way conversation with their feline or perhaps it is just out of boredom. If you talk to your cat using a cat voice, there is something you should know. Photo: Unsplash/Japheth Mast According to a recent study from the Paris Nanterre University’s Laboratory of Compared Ethology and Cognition, when you’re using that...
Study Shows How You Parent Your Dog May Impact Its Behavior Later In Life
Everybody has their own, unique style. This includes the way that we raise our human children as well as our furry children. As it turns out, a study by Oregon State University shows that the way we parent our furry children can have an impact on their behavior. Photo: Pexels/RODNAE Productions Everybody who has a pet in their lives realizes that they have a unique personality. Some are shy, others are outgoing but all of them have the ability to love. As it turns out, the study shows that the way we care for our pets can really have an...
Installing a Dog-Washing Station and Other Options for Giving Fido a Bath
If you’re the owner of a toy breed, you can just put them in the sink with a mesh net over the drain and use your spray wand to quickly and efficiently bathe them. But medium to large-breed dogs present a whole other problem for most pet parents. You are either used to sudsing them down in the backyard during summer months or getting down on your knees to soap them up next to your bathtub in the winter. The latter of the two options stinks because your knees are killing you unless you perch on the edge of the tub with your feet in it,...
Newly Married Couple Ends Up with Two Kittens After Returning From Honeymoon
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! I remember very well that year, 2012. My wife and I were planning our wedding. What a rush… so many things, and my man’s mind almost blowing up trying to get used to so many details. My wife was loving it. I used to go to swim every Saturday, in a sports complex near my house. I have many friends there, and the two receptionists were lovely women. We always spoke a little...
6,000 Blankets Delivered to Ukrainians Ahead of Winter, How You Can Help More This Giving Tuesday
It’s been just over nine months since Russia invaded Ukraine, and Ukrainians that have remained in their country have faced many hardships, from a lack of critical services to food insecurity. Among the critical services many have lost is electricity. With the winter months looming, the lack of power will make things even more difficult, but your donations helped fund a recent delivery that will help. In mid-November, Greater Good Charities distributed 6,000 blankets in south central Ukraine, to communities that were either recently...
How You Can Help People, Pets, and the Planet This Giving Tuesday
Throughout the year, your clicks, shopping for a cause, and donations have helped us tackle a variety of problems facing the planet, pets, and people in need. This Giving Tuesday, we’re hoping to do even more for veterans, Ukrainians, pets, and pollinators. Here’s a closer look at what we’re working on. Providing Relief to Unhoused Veterans and Their Pets PHOTO: ADOBE STOCK / PAOPANO Nearly 40,000 veterans face homelessness every day, and many of them have pets. Because most homeless shelters don’t allow pets, that can...
The Best Advent Calendars for Dogs and Cats in 2022
Are you one of those people that buy their tree and start putting up Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving? You might even put your tree up on Thanksgiving and start hanging exterior lights the following day. If so, you’re in good company, with 43-55 percent (depending on the source) queried admitting to jumping the gun and getting into the Christmas season early. Including Pets in Christmas Sound like you? If that’s how you roll and you’re a pet parent, then there’s also a good chance you’re of the...
This Person Works Hard at Home Under the Supervision of a Cat
Cats are highly inquisitive creatures. When something catches their attention, they’ll observe it and even try to interact with it. It will roam indoors and outdoors to go out for an adventure — feeding their curious minds. You’ll even notice that they observe what you do, and it even reaches the point that they’ll approach you to see things closely. One of the things that humans do that cats find fascinating is when you’re in front of a computer. Photo: Unsplash/Biel Morro The internet has a collection of cat...
The Know-Hows For When You Encounter A Stray Kitten
Have you seen the viral clip of that one guy that encountered a really really cute kitten on a road, and then a whole army of kittens popped out of nowhere with their adorable “ambush”? [embedded content] These tiny creatures are truly hard to ignore. No matter how much anyone claims to hate cats, I doubt they wouldn’t feel a tiny bit of a tug at their hearts if and when they see a kitten. For the person in the video above, he approached the kitten in hopes of rescuing and eventually adopting it. But exactly what does one do...
Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick Received Hugs in a Reunion with the Elephants She Raised During a Tumultuous Time
Animals with remarkable features have always had struggles with humans who see them as an income source. For instance, elephants were poached for their ivory tusks. Poachers illegally kill the elephants to sell their tusks in ivory trades because of its valuable price. For this reason, there has been a decline in elephant population and has badly impacted the younger ones. The calves get separated from their parents whenever poachers hunt for them. It’s a sad and cruel world out there for young ones to live by themselves —...
