The Fattest Green Parrot In The World Named New Zealand’s Bird Of The Year For 2020
The Kākāpō is a chubby looking green parrot that waddles like a duck, and it’s evidence of the impact of conservation. Also known as “Mighty moss chicken,” the world’s heaviest and longest-living parrot cannot fly, and only comes out at night. Its name means “night parrot” in Māori. It is also critically endangered, but its numbers are on the rise. According to the Guardian, just 50 kākāpō remained alive during the 1990s. Today, more than four times as many are...
One easy way your animal shelter or rescue organization can get some marketing help
Could your organization use some extra marketing help, for free? If you haven’t heard of HeARTs Speak, look no further. HeARTs Speak is a nonprofit organization whose work shines a light on animals in need and improves adoption rates by increasing the marketing capacity of time-stretched, under-resourced organizations. They offer free design tools, plug ‘n play photo templates and information to help make marketing as easy as it can be for animal shelter and rescue organizations, especially right now. They were also a...
Rescue Climber Races To Save Texas Dog Who “Miraculously” Survived 70-Foot Fall From Cliff
Cats are well-known for their ability to land on their feet. Now there’s a dog in Austin, Texas, blessed with an equally miraculous knack for getting out of trouble. “Heads up all you dog lovers,” Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services wrote on Facebook. “[This] is a scary story with a happy, feel good ending!” According to the rescue team, paramedic Robert Luddy was on his lunch break when he was approached by worried hikers. “They told Captain Luddy that a dog had fallen off a cliff nearby and...
Lost Dog Reunited With Owner Almost Exactly One Year After He Went Missing
When Kate Olsen’s Golden Retriever went missing in 2019, the New Hampshire woman was distraught. Olsen’s dog, Walter, had always been anxious, but a Thanksgiving trip to see her family in St. Louis seemed to have pushed him over the edge. According to 5 On Your Side, the nervous dog slipped out of his collar at some point during their visit and ran away. Photo: Facebook/Lost Paws Trapping Olsen spent weeks in St. Louis printing off missing dog fliers, retracing Walter’s steps, and even started a Facebook group, Where’s...
Shelters Gives Three Reasons Not To Adopt ‘Eddie The Terrible’ Chihuahua
Dog rescues are no strangers to the plight of animals. They recognize that at times, they may spend years waiting to be adopted. That is why it doesn’t surprise us that the Humane Society of Silicon Valley fell in line with many other rescues and got creative to get one dog adopted. It was with the adoption of about a two-year-old Chihuahua they named Eddie the Terrible. According to the ad, Eddie is naughty, rude, and hates being around other dogs. He also hates being in his crate, doesn’t enjoy being around kids and in their...
Officers Appeal For Public’s Help After Three Foxes Found Shot By Crossbow
Officers from Metropolitan Police Wildlife Crime Unit are asking for help in finding the cruel individual(s) who shot three foxes with a crossbow, killing two, in a borough in London. The department received a call from a concerned citizen who spotted a fox with an arrow in its back. Police arrived and called animal charity, The Fox Project, to help the injured fox. The charity stated that the fox was shot at close range and suffered for days. “A young dog fox shot through the back at such close range that the arrow was protruding from...
Endangered Sea Turtle Loses Two Flippers And Learns To Swim Again
The Daily Mail had some fun and encouraging news to report. It seems as if an endangered sea turtle is going viral on social media for all the right reasons. Even though the turtle lost two of its flippers, it is learning to swim again. According to the news outlet, the animal is Lou, an Olive Ridley Turtle. He got caught in a fishing net and lost his front left flipper and back right flipper after each of them had to be amputated by a veterinarian. The Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre then stepped in to help. That nonprofit rescue...
New Vote In Colorado Will Reintroduce Gray Wolves To The State
2020 has been a year of unprecedented events, so it really should not be a surprise that an unprecedented vote took place in Colorado this year. It was known as Proposition 114, and if it passed, it would direct the wildlife managers to reintroduce gray wolves to the state by 2024. This was not an overwhelmingly popular proposition, although, with close results, the opponents conceded their loss on November 5. They were only ahead by 0.5%, but 90% of the votes were in. Most of the uncounted votes were from urban areas that were in strong...
Woman Spends Thousands On Treating ‘Stinky Dog Farts’ Only To Learn It Was Her Husband
I think all of us who own dogs have been there. We are enjoying a quiet moment when suddenly, the smell of a fart drifts by. For many dog owners, it is more than a passing problem (forgive the pun), it sticks in the nose and can really turn your stomach. It seems as if a woman was experiencing something similar but the story continued to unravel, long after the first stinky offense drifted her way. She was so distraught over the situation that she decided to go on Reddit and share it with the world. The post started with the unnamed woman...
15 Extremely Close-Up Photos Of Animal Eyes
It has sometimes been said that the eyes are the windows to the soul. I’m not sure how accurate that statement is, but I can tell you that eyes are beautiful and each individual has something unique that they bring to the table. Looking into somebody’s eyes will often tell you much about them, and you may even find it to be mesmerizing. Perhaps that is why photographer, Suren Manvelyan, has made it the focus of their work. By producing extreme close-ups of animals’ eyes, you can see how different they are and how beautiful...
Owner Enraged After Disabled Family Cat Is Euthanized Without Consent
Mush was a disabled cat with a spinal deformity that caused his lower back to sag, making it difficult for New Jersey pet to move around. Even so, the 15-year-old cat had a family that loved him deeply, and they’re still struggling to deal with what happened when animal control showed up at their house unannounced and took their beloved cat away. According to Patch.com, the disabled cat was removed from his yard by an animal control officer who mistook Mush for a feral cat who’d been hit by a car. The officer knocked on the...
Man Feeds Dozens Of Orphaned Raccoons In Honor Of His Late Wife
A very adorable video has been making the rounds on the internet after one man from Nova Scotia in Canada was filmed feeding the local raccoons on his back porch. James Blackwood, the man in the video, is a retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. He has spent the last 25 years consistently caring for these adorable creatures, and has even proclaimed himself to be a “Racoon Whisperer.” According to Blackwood, the feeding of the raccoons was originally an undertaking started by his late wife. However, just before she passed,...
Maddie’s Weekly Roundup: How PAWS Atlanta’s community was their lifeline, ASPCA Cornell Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Conference available online and more!
Below is a brief round-up of new blog posts and resources we’ve added over the past week. How one Pet Foster Stimulus Grant recipient’s community was their animal welfare organization’s lifelineIn need of a feel-good story? As foster care has become the saving grace for many animal welfare organizations in times of Covid and onward, Pet Foster Stimulus Grant recipient, PAWS Atlanta in Atlanta, GA, was no different. What’s more was that they discovered just how amazing their community was! When PAWS...
Gosling Recognizes A Man At The Park And Comes Waddling Over To Say Hi
We all have a favorite person in our lives – someone who means the world to us and makes us happy to be around them. It’s also a very nice feeling when we’re the person in someone’s life that they absolutely cherish. For Doug Carleton, he happens to be a revered member of the group of geese who live in his local park. They get incredibly excited to see him every time he goes to visit. Carleton has been visiting the geese of his park for many years now, and as a result, he has come to befriend all the geese who live...
Amazon Engineers Made An App That They Claim Will Translate A Cat’s Meows Into Words
Who else has ever wondered what your cat is trying to convey with their meows? Javier Sanchez, a former Amazon engineer that worked on Alexa, has shared some insight into the possible future of feline communication. Sanchez now works as a project manager at a tech company called Akvelon, which is located in Bellvue, Washington. As reported by King5, his latest undertaking is that of the app, MeowTalk. When completed, it is supposed to be able to “translate” all the feline vocalizations so that humans can hopefully better...
Arianna Grande Is Opening An Animal Rescue Center
Everyone knows that Ariana Grande has a soft spot in her heart for animals. The singer has even stated in the past that she sometimes even prefers pets to people – a sentiment that I can definitely empathize with. Ariana is also a proud dog mom to 10 rescues, and she isn’t stopping there. She’s using her position of influence in order to do something to help benefit animals in need. On Wednesday, Ariana took to Twitter to announce her latest passion project: opening an animal rescue center. Her rescue will be called Orange...
Horse Loses An Eye After Being Hit In The Face With A Firework
The beginning of November always sees the event known as Bonfire Night, an annual celebration in the UK. As the name might suggest, it’s the perfect night to celebrate using fireworks. However, this year’s festivities were marred for one male horse from Aberdeenshire after he suffered an injury. The horse, named Dettori, sustained horrible injuries after a man set off a 30-minute display next to a field full of horses. Dettori’s owners said in their GoFundMe that the man’s actions resulted in “excruciating pain...
Tiny Chihuahua Hitches Ride On Big Dog’s Back As He Swims At The Lake
As The Beatles so famously stated, “I get by with a little help from my friends.” And that sentiment is one that holds true to all of us. No matter who we are, we can all get by with a little help from our friends, and this includes our furry friends. They, too, can use assistance from their companions. And one little Chihuahua named Tim is the perfect example of this. The little pooch, also affectionately known as Tiny Tim, was filmed during a trip to a lake in McHenry, Illinois, getting carried around the water by his friend...
Cat Takes First Trip To Beach And Develops Strong Opinion About The Wind
This story originally appeared at Shareably. Taking our animals around the world to experience their “firsts” can be some of the most magical and funny moments in both our lifetimes. Especially depending on what type of animal they are. Some animals get the zoomies where they cannot stop running, some animals are easily spooked by any new noise or sensation, and some just quietly form very strong opinions that can be read all over their furry faces. When one family decided to take their cat to the beach they quickly realized he...
New Monkey Species Discovered, But There Are Less Than 300 Left On Earth
A new primate species has been discovered in southeast Asia. With at most 260 of the monkeys left on Earth, however, the Popa langur is dangerously close to extinction. With so few alive, the monkey has been classified as “critically endangered.” “Sadly this is a bittersweet discovery due to the limited number of individuals left in the wild and fragmented populations,” wrote Roberto Portela Miguez, Senior Curator in Charge of Mammals at the London Natural History Museum, in a published release. The Popa langur was...
