Chefs’ Last Ditch Stand to Keep Serving Foie Gras
Two months ago, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck wrote to fellow chefs in California asking them to join him in embracing the state’s new law banning foie…
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Ringling Caves!
The elephants are packing their trunks. By any standard, today’s decision by the Ringling Circus to phase out its elephant acts represents a seismic shift in the use of…
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Mother Carries Shot Pit Bull to Safety
It started out as the same hike that Andi Davis does every day to the top of one of the mountains near where she lives in Phoenix, Arizona. But this time, close to the top,…
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Liberators or Terrorists?
When 100 people, mostly women from various rescue groups, rescued 178 beagles from a research lab in Brazil last week, nobody called them terrorists. The five security officers…
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Do Pets Prevent Sudden Death in Children with Epilepsy?
A group of Brazilian researchers wondered if the presence of a pet in the home of a child with epilepsy might reduce their risk of dying from SUDEP. They found that of the 1,092…
The Right Music for Cats
Greyhound Shock Angers Australians
Holiday Gift for Elephant Music Lovers
The Yeti Bear
Now Pelicans Washing Up in Peru. What’s Happening?
It’s bad enough that thousands of dolphins have been washing up on the shores of Northern Peru – 3,000 so far this year. Now we’re hearing…
Octopus with His Mobile Home!
Octopuses are well known for their smarts. They’re the most intelligent of the cephalopods, and are renowned for their Houdini-like ability to escape from humans. (One story is told of the octopus who escaped from a tank in the hull of a boat where he was being held captive … made his way up the stairs … and over the edge of the boat back into the ocean.)
Stray Dog Heals Homeless Dog’s Seizures
Blair the Labrador leads Tanner along on his walk When Tanner’s person died, the golden retriever’s health problems got much worse. Tanner was already blind; now…
The Geese at JFK Airport
“No one was hurt,” according to an AP report after a second collision in one week between a plane and a goose near Kennedy Airport. Well,…
Whale Wars Takes On the Not-So-Great Danes
If you think the dolphin massacre at Taiji is a uniquely Japanese horror, welcome to the Faroe Islands of northern Europe. These picturesque Danish islands, inhabited…
Dogs Play Fetch Underwater
Photographer Seth Casteel specializes in lifestyle pet photography. So he got in the pool with a series of pets diving for balls, and the results are…
How to Brush a Crocodile’s Teeth
Best not to try this at home! But these baby crocs get their teeth brushed every morning at Nepal’s Chitwan National Park. It’s all part…
Barbie Doll Is SeaWorld Trainer
How grotesque is this? Mattel’s latest Barbie doll is a SeaWorld trainer: With this Barbie I Can Be SeaWorld Trainer Nikki Doll and Playset Nikki doll…
Elephants Practice for Move to Sanctuary
At the Toronto Zoo, Toka, Thika and Iringa are, so to speak, packing their trunks. In their case, that means trying out the crates they’ll be…
Welcome Home from War!
In Homer’s Odyssey, Argos the dog waits for 20 years for Odysseus, to come home from the Trojan War. Unable even to stand up any longer, he refuses to take his last breath until he’s been reunited. Here’s a more joyful compendium of Welcome Home videos.
Where’s Oscar?
Adorable Oscar, the star of the Disneynature movie Chimpanzee, has gone AWOL. In fact, according to the movie’s director, Mark Linfield, Oscar hasn’t been seen since…
Highway Robbery – Baboon Style
It used to be that the humans were bothering the baboons. Now it’s the other way round. People visiting Yankari Game Reserve in Nigeria are having…
Woman Vivisected in London Store Window
They dragged her along with a rope around her neck and pushed her down on a bench. It was feeding time for Jacqueline Traide and you…
California Dairy Cow Had Mad Cow Disease
The first case in six years of a cow with mad cow disease (properly called bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE) has been found in California. The…
The 10-Million-Ton Scoop on Poop
There are 78 million dogs living in the United States and they’re dropping 10 million tons of doggy-doo every year. That’s roughly 274 pounds per dog. What happens to all this? Much of it ends up creating a huge pollution problem.
Zoo Association Tries to Punish Toronto for Humane Decision
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) is miffed about the Toronto Zoo and the Toronto City Council making the wise and humane decision to send…
Mickey Rourke to Set Up Sanctuary in Romania
Actor Mickey Rourke is well known for his love of dogs. He was reportedly heartbroken over the loss of Loki, his Chihuahua, three years ago. Three…
Hamster “Resurrected” after Burial
When Dave Eyley, of Oxfordshire, England, found his hamster, Rhino, lying lifeless in his box, he dug a two-foot hole in the backyard to give his…
The One Way to Celebrate Earth Day
This Sunday, you can celebrate Earth Day by recycling something, joining a group that’s picking up old cans and bottles, taking a reusable shopping bag to the supermarket …Or you can do the one thing that will really make a difference.