Some Show Love for Their Mates with ‘Ecstatic Displays’, and Other Fun Facts About Penguins
As we get into mid-January, you may feel like the fun, festive holidays are over. You would be forgetting about Penguin Awareness Day, though! That’s held on January 20 each year. In honor of the occasion, let’s learn some more about these adorable, waddling aquatic birds. The Number of Species is a Contentious Issue PHOTO: ADOBE STOCK / JO If you Google the number of penguin species, you’ll get a few different answers. WWF even has the figure listed at between 17 and 19. What’s with the discrepancy? Well, some species...
Parrot Town Can Help with Your Parrot’s Loneliness/Boredom and Your Sanity
Keeping birds as pets is not without its challenges. They can become sick, lonely, or bored, and it’s up to us to keep them happy and healthy. Just like kids or domestic pets, parrot breeds and other commonly-kept birds sometimes exhibit problematic behavior that their humans and caretakers can find particularly difficult to manage. While there are a number of ways that birds can misbehave and irritate the people they live with, excessive noise is frequently at the top of the list. Photo: Pixabay/picsbyjameslee Parrot Town If...
Woman Plays The Most Adorable Game Of Hide And Seek With Her Dog
When was the last time you played with your dog? For many of us, it is something that we do every day but sometimes, dogs take things to the next level. Perhaps your dog enjoys playing a good game of fetch or maybe they have a favorite toy that they tug on. Another game that is enjoyed by dogs around the world is hide and seek, and most of them are pretty good at it. Photo: YouTube/The Golden Ellie If you’ve never had the opportunity to play hide and seek with your dog, you really are missing out on one of the great pleasures in life....
Man Creates Luxury Tiny House For Dog To Keep Warm In Winter
If you have a dog that spends any amount of time outdoors in the winter, you know that they can get quite chilly. Our hearts really go out to them, but some dogs just enjoy being out in the snow and it can even be hard to get them inside again! That doesn’t mean, however, that dogs don’t need a break. In fact, some dogs will stay outside so long that it actually is bad for their health. Photo: YouTube/Drew Builds Stuff Just like humans need a break from the winter, dogs also need a break from the winter. Fortunately for a dog...
Lost German Shepherd Mix Found 14 Months Later And Over 1,600 Miles Away From Home
Who’s not a sucker for a heartwarming reunion story? Whether you just want to feel comforted with the knowledge that two separated parties finally met after an extended period of time, or maybe you’re just in a mood to cry and soak up all sentimentalities that are palpable in any reunion stories… All those feelings just multiply if a story involves a beloved pet. PHOTO: Pixabay/Myléne One such beloved pet went missing for 14 months before finding his way back to his owner. But it’s not only time that separated...
Hotel with a Heart: Traveler Posts about Hotel that’s Given an Old Dog a Forever Home
Aging is just as difficult for dogs as it is for humans. In fact, many old dogs are often abandoned or returned to shelters because they’re already slow and sickly. Moreover, they are also often the last to be chosen for adoption. Photo: Tiktok/ida2marie Dogs are considered senior when they reach 7 years old; with larger dog breeds, aging is a bit sooner. By this time, their health starts to deteriorate and they become more vulnerable to diseases. Old Dog Haven has posted a sentimental blog that will touch your heart. It made a list of...
Labradoodle
What is a Labradoodle? A Labradoodle is a cross between a Labrador Retriever and a Miniature or Standard Poodle. This can include a Poodle or Labrador Retriever crossed with a Labradoodle or two Labradoodles bred with each other. Because there is no dog breed standard for Labradoodles, the mixed breed dog can have a wide range in size, color and temperament and can inherit any combination of Labrador or Poodle genes. Dog breeders enhance certain temperament and appearance characteristics of the offspring by choosing to weigh more heavily on...
Pet Food Transparency
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Rare Footage! Farm Welcomes the Birth of Alpaca Twins Named Maisie and Rosie
Alpaca twins are rare! Twins occur at approximately one in every 50,000 births! Alpacas are relatives of the camels, llamas, vicuñas, and guanacos under the family Camelidae. Like the llamas, they are a fully domesticated member of this family, believed to have been bred by the ancient people of the Andes from South America’s wild camelids centuries before the rise of the Incas. Photo: Tiktok/lanehousealpacas From ancient times until today, alpacas are valued for their fleece and meat which is high in protein and low in fat....
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...
What Should You Know About Glucosamine for Dogs
When looking to support your pup’s optimal health, supplements will always come out as a hot topic. With many dog supplements on the market, all varying in price and health claims, it can be difficult for a new or even seasoned pet parent to choose the best ones. One thing is for sure: Recommendations for glucosamine for dogs have always remained a top choice among veterinarians, breeders and pet enthusiasts alike. Let’s jump right into discussing all things “glucosamine”! What is glucosamine for dogs? Glucosamine is a...
