Tennessee Gov. Vetoes Ag-Gag Bill
It’s a small victory, but a big precedent, for the animals at factory farms: Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has vetoed the ag-gag bill that would effectively…
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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
Chihuahua Plays Pool
You get one shot; the Chihuahua gets 16.
Household Product Testing – Useless?
Three months ago, we took note of a 10-year study finding that billions of dollars of research and billions of lives of mice have gone down…
How Humans Can Survive. (Should We?)
Newsweek leads off this week with an article about the future of humankind. It opens with how the bees are dying off and the enormous toll…
Rottweiler, Deer Play Together
Tucker races his new pal along the fence at a deer park in Winona, MN.(Thanks to Lisa.)
Hungary? Try the Cat Café
The Cat Café in Budapest Nice mewsic, purrfect coffee, and all that good stuff. It started in Tokyo with the Café Neko. Then the owners moved…
First ‘Ag-Gag’ Prosecution Collapses
Amy Meyer had heard about the horrible conditions at factory farms and slaughterhouses. So she drove to the Dale Smith Meatpacking Company in Draper City, Utah,…
Today Show Investigates Puppy Mills
The Today Show‘s investigative piece on commercial dog breeders doesn’t offer anything new about the puppy mills themselves. But it does highlight the relationship that these…
Elephants on Candid Camera
Elephants in Cambodia pass a camera trap make their way through the forest to a small lake, where some fun and games ensues. The videos come…
H7N9 Has Escaped from China
At a briefing in Beijing yesterday, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, an assistant director general at the World Health Organization, called H7N9 “definitely one of the most lethal influenza viruses we’ve seen.”
He added that “the potential development of human-to-human spread cannot be ruled out.”
Elephants on HBO with Lily Tomlin
If you’re already outraged by what Lily Tomlin calls “the bizarre practice of caging wild animals for public display,” the HBO documentary An Apology to Elephants…
Ferrets in a Peanut Pool, etc. …
Ferrets in a peanut pool … Kitty drinks from a vacuum cleaner(!) … Another cat tries out the rotating snake illusion … and an African Gray…
Why Zoos Won’t Save Lions
Fifty years ago, 450,000 lions ruled Africa as the proverbial king of beasts. Today there are fewer than 20,000 left. What will save them from extinction?…
‘He Kept Me Alive in Afghanistan.’
Pets aren’t allowed on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan. At least not officially. Staff Sgt. Jesse Knott first saw Koshka appear from behind one of the…
U.S. Army Stops Medical Training on Goats
At Fort Bragg, N.C., soldiers kill about 300 goats a month in practice situations to learn how to deal with wounds caused by bombs and bullets.…
U.K. to Ban Wild Animals in Traveling Circuses
Under a bill that’s expected to become law, traveling circuses in the U.K. will be banned from using exotic animals. They will have until December 2015…
Happy Birthday, Nessie
It sounded, at some points, more like a religious gathering. “I believe in a large, unidentified creature in the loch, possibly amphibious – that is, a…