Pets & Animals

Toco wanted to be a dog since early childhood, and now his dream has come true A man who spent £11,000 to ‘become a dog’ has now opened his own ‘zoo’ where you can pay to see people dressed as animals. In a world where almost anything is possible, sometimes people’s dreams are a little more extreme […]

Clementine was just two days from being put to sleep when Chelsea Elizabeth Cossairt saw her photo online. The skinny dog had been found weeks earlier by animal control roaming the streets in Southern California. Due to her numerous health issues, she was put on “death row” at the shelter, but something in the tiny photo

On a suburban street outside Pittsburgh, a tiny black and white cat used the last of her strength to drag herself up an icy driveway. Weakened by hunger and an infection, the 4-pound cat lay down in the snow and started to freeze to the ground. Carly Toth, cat coordinator at the animal rescue Pet Friends,

While walking a client’s dog through Ely Country Park last week, professional dog walker Kayley Drewitt stumbled upon an unexpected treasure nestled in the grass: a weathered cardboard box with a handwritten note that would soon warm the hearts of thousands. Drewitt, the owner of The Animal Ark Pet Services, spends her days exploring parks and

When Goran Marinkovic walks the streets of Kraljevo, Serbia, he always brings food with him. Every day he feeds over 100 stray dogs and cats who have no one to care for them, but in March of last year, he stumbled across a tiny puppy he couldn’t bear to leave behind. “Passing a narrow pathway, I heard

In 2007, rangers from Virunga National Park rescued a 2-month-old gorilla named Ndakasi in the Congolese wilderness. She’d been found clutching the body of her mother, whose life had been cut short by poachers. But despite her tragic beginnings, Ndakasi’s story is one of kindness and love. Not long after Ndakasi had been saved from the forest,

Feeling tired of your weekly grind? Well, here’s a video beamed straight out of Mother Nature, which will soon set you right. Most adult humans spend their days worrying about things like council tax and not forgetting to leave the hob on before going out, which means that we’re all out of touch with what

Meet Chevy — the dog with a thousand-watt smile. The 9-year-old Pomeranian lives with his mom and dad in Kettering, Ohio. And he’s become a bit of a local celebrity thanks to his nonstop grinning. “We’ve never seen him have a bad day. It just cracks us up,” ​​Tina Marcum Denlinger, Chevy’s mom, told The Dodo.

The Sad Story of Mufasa: A Circus Lion’s Path to Freedom For more than twenty years, a magnificent lion called Mufasa endured a life filled with unimaginable suffering. While part of a traveling circus in Peru, he found himself stuck in the back of an old, rusty pickup truck, chained up in a way that

Last month, Valerie Hicks was driving down a road in Mississippi when she noticed an open crate on the side of the pavement with a fuzzy figure huddled inside. Hicks quickly turned her car around. Hicks happened to be on her way to Community Animal Rescue & Adoption (CARA), a nonprofit animal shelter and rescue group where she serves as

I bought shawarma for a homeless man and his dog on a bitter winter evening. It seemed like a simple act of kindness at the time. But when he slipped me a note hinting at a past I’d completely forgotten, I knew this was no ordinary encounter. I worked at a sporting goods store in

But at the Care For Wild Rhino Sanctuary, the baby rhino and young zebra have become unlikely friends and are helping each other heal. In early December, rangers found Daisy alone and struggling in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Daisy was just a few hours old and incredibly weak, so her rescuers transported her by helicopter to