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A video-focused report from a questionable news source on an alleged “bear pit” incident has been making the rounds. Per the New York Post, citing the oft-sourced-in-tabloid-stories East2West News, the footage in question has been said to have originated from Tashkent Zoo in Uzbekistan. The clip, which has also been shared by China’s state-owned news outlet […]
Millie, a Jack Russell-Whippet mix, was rescued last week after being ushered to safety by a drone with a sausage attached to it, The Guardian reports. The incident in the town of Havant, Hampshire in England started when Millie slipped her lead and was later seen on the mudflats with a rapidly rising tide. When a coordinated effort […]
A cat that went missing eight months in Essex, England, was reunited with its family after the owner recognized its meow during a phone call with their veterinarian. People reports Rachael Lawrence, 40, was on the phone with her vet regarding her other cat when she recognized a cry in the background she believed belonged to […]
Betty White was someone to everyone. But apparently for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, she was an assiatant to a sea otter surgery. Beyond that, she’s now a namesake. The aquarium located in California is saluting the late Golden Girls star—who died last month at age 99—by naming its planned giving program after her. The location announced […]
Kanye West and the Game have landed themselves in hot water with PETA over the extremely graphic cover art for their upcoming collaboration. Both rappers took to Instagram Thursday night to promote their forthcoming song by posting identical images of a skinned monkey, originally photographed by Nick Knight, against a blood-red background. Ye and Game captioned the photo with the title […]
A Malayan tiger at a Florida zoo was shot and killed by a local deputy on Wednesday after a man who worked for a cleaning company entered an unauthorized section of the facility, at which point the tiger is said to have grabbed his arm. Initial reports, including from regional outlet CBS outlet WINK-TV, stated […]
Residents of a North Wales village can finally breathe easy, knowing a “bloodthirsty” critter is no longer on the loose. According to the Evening Standard, the small town of Buckley spent days living in fear of Stripe—a grey squirrel named after the main antagonist in the 1984 movie Gremlins. It’s reported that the animal terrorized the village during the […]
Kering and LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton released statements in response to PETA’s allegations of animal cruelty against the luxury conglomerates. Earlier this week, PETA released the findings of a recent investigation into an Indonesian slaughterhouse, which detailed the “violent, inarguably cruel manner” in which lizards are killed for Gucci accessories. “The lizards’ legs are tied, then they’re callously thrown around […]
Hope you’re feeling pork for dinner, because Canada may be facing a serious surplus of the other white meat. A type of wild pig originally brought over to a few farms from Europe in the ’80s and ’90s has been reproducing and wreaking havoc across the Canadian prairies after breaking through national park boundaries in […]
Police in Kansas spent last weekend in pursuit of an Arabian camel who managed to evade officers after breaking free of a nativity scene in Bonner Springs. Last Saturday night, the camel, dubbed “Forrest Hump” by its community, fled the National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame during a live, drive-thru nativity scene. Forrest Hump roamed the streets […]
