How to safely feed your dog a plant-based diet
From health benefits to environmental sustainability, there are a lot of perks to plant-based diets. But can our dogs thrive without eating meat or other animal products? “Can my dog be vegan?” Though many experts are hesitant to admit it, the answer to this increasingly common question is yes. But hold the phone…it’s not quite that simple. Sure, in theory many dogs can thrive on a vegan diet. The trouble is, meeting your pup’s nutritional requirements on plants alone is a lot easier said than done. In fact, the...
Dog Pokes Her Face Through Pipe In Hilarious Video
Dogs take their duty seriously — for all they know, they might be the only thing standing between their beloved family and the absolute chaotic unknown of the outside world. While this is the reason we get stories like “hero dog saves owner from rattlesnake,” some dogs are a little goofier in their attempts at heroism. For example, take Gabi the guard dog, who guards the family home in São Paulo, Brazil with her life! PHOTO: PEXELS / MAGDA EHLERS To do this, she’s not afraid to stick her neck out. The little pup...
Dog Finds Her New Forever Home After Being Left To Die In A Landfill
Looking at a rescue dog, you can never know exactly what their story is. One of their best and most enviable traits is the ability to put the past behind them and embrace their forever home with passion and love. For Amie, when watching the big and playful girl romp around with her little chihuahua brother, you’d never know that she was found barely clinging to life, nearly paralyzed from injuries in a cardboard box discarded at a landfill. Her story is one of resilience, luck, and, fortunately, one with a very happy ending! Photo:...
How Goats Are Helping In The Fight Against Forest Fires
As wildfires continue to ravage the West Coast states, and droughts drag on longer and harsher than they have in recent memory, it’s no surprise that everyone from ranchers to government officials are looking for new solutions. What is surprising is that a well-established practice from decades past is proving especially useful in some areas. The technique uses goat herds to thin vegetation in susceptible areas, potentially creating a fire break by deploying the animals in repeated patterns. It may sound strange, but for those familiar...
Rescue Greyhound Flies To His New Italy Home In Business Class
Lewis the greyhound is one lucky dog! Born and raised in Victoria, Australia, the pup overcame his hard years in the country’s notorious and exploitative greyhound racing circuit, before being rescued by Greyt Greys Rescue. The volunteer-led group fosters greyhounds until they can find their forever home, which Lewis did just recently! Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Shaz91 Now, headed to his new home all the way in beautiful Italy, Lewis had another stroke of luck when Singapore Airlines let him fly in the cabin, business class! Article...
Man Goes Viral For Being Neighborhood “Cat Whisperer”
Anyone whose familiar with cats knows how picky they can be. It seems that we don’t choose our cats, but they choose us instead, and they might love us or hate us. Unlike dogs, it doesn’t matter if we give a cat a place to live, food, or attention. The cat’s only loyalty is to the people it deems worthy. While that generally seems true, there are always those few people who seem to connect with cats on a deeper level. The cats choose them, and it’s not a coincidence. That was the case for a man named Chris Watson, AKA,...
Police Found 15 Dogs “In Varying Stages Of Emaciation” In R&B Singer Jaheim’s Home
R&B singer Jaheim was arrested and charged with 3rd-degree animal cruelty after 15 dogs were found at his New Jersey residence “in varying stages of emaciation.” One of the dogs was so neglected that it had to be euthanized. The Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office shared a press release explaining that the Hillsborough Township Police Department responded to Jaheim’s neighborhood for a call regarding a “puppy in distress.” After surveying the area, police discovered six dogs in crates in the driveway of...
House Cat Becomes BFFs With Wild Moose
We’ve seen time and time again the fact that friendships can extend beyond species. Sometimes a cat and a dog might become BFFs, other times, a pet becomes friends with a wild animal. That’s the case with Lovey the moose and Plumps the house cat. The two have been friends for years, forming a bond after Lovey started coming around Plumps’ house. Photo: Pixabay/Co_Sch Plumps’ owner, Dan, shares their life in Alaska on Instagram. He shows plenty of videos and pictures of wildlife that comes to their home, but the most...
Sick Puppy Found Under A Bridge Is Looking For Her Forever Home
A 4-month-old puppy was found under a bridge, sick and hopelessly clinging to life. But thanks to a Good Samaritan, she’s now thriving and looking for her forever home. When a passerby saw the small puppy under the bridge in Greece, they didn’t have the heart to leave her. She had visible skin issues and looked helpless and hopeless. So, they called DAR Animal Rescue to help. When rescuers with DAR Animal Rescue arrived, they found the little dog under the bridge where they were told she’d be. They scooped her up and...
Dog Who Couldn’t Walk As A Puppy Learns To Prance Around With Style
A special needs dog named Fenix Lumiere struggled to walk as a puppy without falling over, but now he prances about everywhere like an absolute rockstar. Fenix’s owners shared with ViralHog that he was diagnosed with Cerebellar Hypoplasia, a condition that affects coordination and balance. While some dogs with that condition struggle to walk or balance, Fenix has found a way to use it to his advantage by strutting around in style. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Alexander Patrikeev Rather than walk normally, which Fenix can’t really do...
Dog Rescued Two Weeks After Falling Into 30-Foot-Deep Cave
A dog in Indiana was rescued and reunited with its owner after falling into a 30-foot-deep cave and spending two weeks there. Recreational repellers at the Dewey Hickman Nature Preserve happened to notice an animal at the bottom of a cave and got closer to investigate. What they found was a half-starved black and white dog trapped at the bottom! Thankfully, they had the gear to repel the 30 feet down and help the poor dog. Once they got to the bottom, they were able to reach the dog and safely get him out of the deep cave....
Last Chance to keep APA! in the Heart of Austin
Oct 07, 2021 Today is the last day for our City Council to decide if the work we do for the City of Austin, keeping it a No Kill city by taking all animals who would be euthanized at the Austin Animal Center, is worth the use of one acre of land at Town Lake Animal Center. We believe No Kill needs to be front and center in Austin. We believe APA! should be kept in the heart of Austin, showing every other city in our nation that eliminating the killing of pets in our shelter is important to our city, our city council, and to every Austinite....
Join Allison Cardona for the next Maddie’s Candid Conversation
Join us for an open, informal 30-minute conversation and Q+A with Allison Cardona, Deputy Director of Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control. In this discussion with Maddie’s Fund Executive Leadership Team member Mary Ippoliti-Smith, Allison speaks of overcoming her own experiences with systemic bias and what she sees as initial steps we can take to widen diversity, equity and inclusion in our field while strengthening the human-animal bond. Allison oversees two full-service animal care centers, a communications center, adoptions,...
150 Exotic Animals Are Rescued From ‘Shop Of Horrors’
150 exotic animals were suffering in a large-scale severe neglect situation at a local pet store in what authorities are calling a “shop of horrors.” The Humane Society of the United States has been working alongside the Burnside Police Department to rescue these poor animals from Tim’s Reptiles and Exotics in Kentucky. Photo: YouTube/The Humane Society of the United States When local authorities showed up with a search and seizure warrant, they found dozens of snakes, lizards, turtles, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters,...
We Need Government Animal Services That Work
Oct 06, 2021 There is one day left before we know whether the city council has taken action on our APA! Resolution by adding it to the next city council meeting agenda. What keeps rising to the top of criticism of our resolution from council offices is that they don’t understand why Austin Pets Alive! should be allowed to help communities outside of the greater Austin metro area. They see and hear about animals having long lengths of stay at Austin Animal Center(AAC) and the kennels being overcrowded there. Some believe that Austin Pets...
Alaskan Park Announces Winner Of This Year’s Fat Bear Week Contest
Every year, Katmai National Park invites voters to celebrate gleefully gluttonous bears by voting on its biggest grizzlies during Fat Bear Week. Now the park has announced this year’s winner, Otis, a 25-year-old bear and four-time Fat Bear Week champion who also won the park’s inaugural competition in 2014. Photo: Twitter/ Katmai National Park Otis won Fat Bear Week 2021 with 51,230 votes, according to the park, which announced the fat bear’s triumph on Twitter. Otis, who regained Katmai’s most coveted title from last...
Idaho Police Officer Helps Rescue Owl Trapped In Plastic On Busy Highway
There are over a dozen owl species that call Idaho home, including the Great Horned Owl. The raptors are easy to identify with their long tufts of feathers that resemble ears. They are commonly seen across the state, but rarely on the median of a busy highway. Idaho State Police (ISP) received multiple calls from concerned commuters on I-84 in Nampa about a Great Horned Owl trapped in plastic. Dispatchers called wildlife rescue, Animals in Distress, for help and sent Sgt. Brandalyn Crapo to the scene. “Traffic is very heavy on that...
ArtemiPet™ harnesses the power of an ancient herb to boost canine immunity
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After Barn Owner Threatens to Throw Stray Kittens Into the River, Employee Saves Them
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 was working at a barn where someone had dropped off a very teeny and very pregnant cat. She was super sweet but disappeared almost as quickly as she had been dropped off, so we assumed she was somewhere giving birth and hiding her kittens. For a few weeks we would see her off and on, slinking around the barn but never giving up a clue to where the kittens were. KITTENS. PHOTO: ADOBE...
Terrified Dog Tied To Railroad Tracks and Left to Die In South Carolina
Dan Winkleman was walking down his driveway when he heard a dog barking in the forest behind his house. But these weren’t the carefree barks of a happy pup playing in the woods. As the barks grew more frantic, the South Carolina man began to wonder if something was wrong. “But this dog, it sounded like you know when a dog frantically barks?’ Dan Winkelman told WBTW News 13. “And it was. I heard it and it was coming from an area where there isn’t a house. Where it’s just woods.” Photo: Pixabay...
