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What’s with all these football-loving felines? During the third quarter of Saturday’s game between Memphis and South Florida, a gray cat dashed onto the field right before a Tigers kickoff. The four-legged furball was seen running about 40 yards down the sideline before darting under a cart at Raymond James Stadium. Several staffers attempted to locate and capture the […]
A pack of wild hogs destroyed someone’s stash of cocaine. According to the Italian edition of The Local, a pack of feral hogs sniffed out cocaine that was buried in a forest in eastern Tuscany. The hogs then dug up the drugs and destroyed the whole package. Authorities found out about the incident while investigating a group of suspected […]
As the Easy Fire swept through Simi Valley, California on Wednesday, neighbors, volunteers, and basically anyone else who could lend a helping hand were being used to help evacuate the panicking horses, and move them away from the fast-moving wildfire. CBS Los Angeles reports that all made it out of the area safely except for […]
Thomas Alexander, 66, was pronounced dead on Tuesday after being attacked by a deer that he shot while hunting in the woods near his home in Yellville, Arkansas, Buzzfeed News reports. At approximately 6:30 p.m., Alexander approached the buck that he had just shot, possibly under the assumption that the male deer was dead. Trey Reid, assistant chief of communications for Arkansas’ game and fish commission, says […]
A California woman collected more than 300 rats as her pets and with them in her van. A woman—identified by the San Diego Union-Tribune as Carla—says she started off with just two rats before the rodents quickly began to multiply inside her vehicle. Eventually, she got up to 320 rats that clawed into the van’s upholstery, seats, and sometimes ventured […]
On early Saturday afternoon, customers at Long Island’s Be.you.tiful Hair Salon were thoroughly scared shitless when a hopped up and confused deer dead sprinted through their front window, clopped around the shop for a minute, and then ran out the front door instead of going back through the giant hole it just made. Footage of the […]
Kyler Bourgeous was attacked by a bison at Utah’s Antelope Island State Park in June. Bourgeous was thrown in the air, gored on the right side of his torso, and trampled by the bison. He sustained some broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and head injuries. Despite the rarity of such an attack—five reported bison incidents within the last decade at the park which has […]
Bothering animals is an objectively stupid way to spend one’s time, particularly when the stupidity occurs at a zoo with a lion. A spokesperson for the Bronx Zoo has issued a statement condemning an example of this behavior seen in viral footage of a woman waving her hands and dancing inside the facility’s African lion exhibit. […]
Never underestimate the power of maternal love. CBS News reports that a Russian navy landing boat sunk last week when a female walrus attacked amid concerns that her cubs were possibly in danger. As researchers from the Russian Geographical Society made their way to the shore of Cape Geller in the Arctic Ocean in a small inflatable rubber landing craft, a walrus tapped […]
An optical illusion of an animal—which looks like a rabbit and a bird—has mystified the internet. A scientist at the University of Oslo in Norway, Daniel Quintana discovered the video on Sunday and tweeted it, writing, “Rabbits love getting stroked on their nose.” The video has since gone viral because Quintana played off a legendary […]
