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Mama Dog Nurses Kittens Back to Health

Linda Smith of Battle Ground, Wash. was planning to bottle feed a litter of abandoned kittens someone had brought to her. That is, until her dog Pooka stepped in and began caring for them.

Smith was amazed that her 9-year-old Chihuahua-Dachshund mix was so insistent on mothering the newborn kittens. “She wanted them. I mean she just went crazy,” Smith told news station, KPTV. “I was trying to feed one of them with the milk and she had a hold of its back end, trying to pull it out of my hand. So that’s when I knew I had to give them to her because she wasn’t going to leave them alone.”

While Pooka hasn’t had a litter of her own babies in four years, her mama’s instinct took over and she knew just what to do with the little orphaned kittens. Amazingly, once she had the kittens close to her and trying to nurse, her milk came in and the kittens were able to eat.

Now, the kittens are thriving with their new mother.

(from freekibblekat.com - just answer a daily trivia question and you’re helping to feed cats!  Dogs, too!)
ryking: WWF Helps Industry More than Environment [C]an the WWF truly protect nature against human beings? Or do the organization’s attractive posters merely offer the illusion of help? Fifty years after the organization was founded, there are growing doubts as to the independence of the WWF and its business model, which involves partnering with industry to protect nature. The WWF, whose international headquarters are located in Gland, Switzerland, is seen as the world’s most powerful conservation organization. It is active in more than 100 countries, where it enjoys close connections to the rich and the powerful. Its trademark panda emblem appears on Danone yoghurt cups and the clothing of jetsetters like Princess Charlene of Monaco. Companies pay seven-figure fees for the privilege of using the logo. The WWF counts 430,000 members in Germany alone, and millions of people give their savings to the organization. The question is how sustainably this money is actually being invested. SPIEGEL traveled around South America and the Indonesian island of Sumatra to address this question. View high resolution

ryking:

WWF Helps Industry More than Environment

[C]an the WWF truly protect nature against human beings? Or do the organization’s attractive posters merely offer the illusion of help? Fifty years after the organization was founded, there are growing doubts as to the independence of the WWF and its business model, which involves partnering with industry to protect nature.

The WWF, whose international headquarters are located in Gland, Switzerland, is seen as the world’s most powerful conservation organization. It is active in more than 100 countries, where it enjoys close connections to the rich and the powerful. Its trademark panda emblem appears on Danone yoghurt cups and the clothing of jetsetters like Princess Charlene of Monaco. Companies pay seven-figure fees for the privilege of using the logo. The WWF counts 430,000 members in Germany alone, and millions of people give their savings to the organization. The question is how sustainably this money is actually being invested.

SPIEGEL traveled around South America and the Indonesian island of Sumatra to address this question.

(Reblogged from diadoumenos)

Pit Bull Saves Owner From Certain Death on Train Tracks

“Maryland has recently deemed that pit bulls are inherently dangerous dogs. Yet, for those who own them, these dogs are far from dangerous; rather, they are intensely loyal and loving creatures. Proof of this can be found in the form of a Massachusetts woman who is alive today solely because of her pit bull.

According to a report by KSDK, a woman was rescued from certain death after falling unconscious on a set of railroad tracks thanks to her pit bull, who sacrificed her body to save her owner. With a freight train bearing down on her owner, the pit bull, an eight-year-old named Lilly, either tried to push or pull her out of the train’s path. With time running out, the dog then moved between the train and her owner to spare her owner the brunt of the train hit. She wound up bearing the entirety of the hit from the oncoming train, and suffered severe trauma, including a sliced foot and a fractured pelvis along with other injuries.

Maryland Rules Pit Bulls “Inherently Dangerous” Dogs

Lilly’s story is a touching one. A pit bull rescued from an animal shelter, Lilly was chosen by Boston police officer David Lanteigne to serve as his mother’s companion dog. Lanteigne’s mother, Christine Spain, is a recovering alcoholic. Lanteigne thought the constant companionship of Lilly would be good for his mother. 

Lilly the pit bull paid Lanteigne’s good deed forward. After having her life saved through her rescue from the shelter, she saved Lanteigne’s mother’s life with her act of heroism, sacrificing her body to save Spain’s life.

We ask again: are pit bulls inherently dangerous? Lilly’s story might make Maryland lawmakers rethink their stance on the matter.”

(Source: freekibble.com)

ryking: Rhino Wars: Rivaling the price of gold on the black market, rhino horn is at the center of a bloody poaching battle. View high resolution

ryking:

Rhino Wars: Rivaling the price of gold on the black market, rhino horn is at the center of a bloody poaching battle.

(Reblogged from diadoumenos)
ryking: Dying Man’s Final Wish to be Reunited With Dog A community came together to grant a homeless man his last wish. That dying wish was to see his dog one more time. It was a simple request, but one that meant the world to him in his final days. People involved with the man’s last wish describe it as something they’ll never forget. Now that he’s gone, they’ll always cherish the memories of the man and his best friend. View high resolution

ryking:

Dying Man’s Final Wish to be Reunited With Dog

A community came together to grant a homeless man his last wish. That dying wish was to see his dog one more time. It was a simple request, but one that meant the world to him in his final days.

People involved with the man’s last wish describe it as something they’ll never forget. Now that he’s gone, they’ll always cherish the memories of the man and his best friend.

(Reblogged from diadoumenos)

900 pets still homeless after Missouri tornado

(Reblogged from diadoumenos)
agentmlovestacos: Sloths! I look at this and think of two things: 1. This is a photo from the set of “Sloth Talk,” a sloth chat show. 2. This is a photo from a sloth hardcore show and the sloth on the right is singing along with the singer sloth on the left. Sooooo…that’s my brain.

agentmlovestacos:

Sloths!

I look at this and think of two things:

1. This is a photo from the set of “Sloth Talk,” a sloth chat show.

2. This is a photo from a sloth hardcore show and the sloth on the right is singing along with the singer sloth on the left.

Sooooo…that’s my brain.

(Source: death-and-allofhisfriends)

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thebigcatblog: Photo by: San Diego Shooter Incredible shutter capture…this is perhaps the most forlorn expression I’ve seen on a non-human animal in a photo. View high resolution

thebigcatblog:

Photo by: San Diego Shooter

Incredible shutter capture…this is perhaps the most forlorn expression I’ve seen on a non-human animal in a photo.

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thebigcatblog: A Sumatran tiger named “Malea” cleans one of her cubs in their enclosure at the zoo in the central German city of Frankfurt am Main on May 25, 2011. Photo: BORIS ROESSLER/AFP/Getty Images View high resolution

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A Sumatran tiger named “Malea” cleans one of her cubs in their enclosure at the zoo in the central German city of Frankfurt am Main on May 25, 2011.

Photo: BORIS ROESSLER/AFP/Getty Images

(Reblogged from thebigcatblog)
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(Reblogged from areyoumyghost)

When someone tells you you’re too old for cuddly toys.

rainbow-child:

thinkingzandshit:

 TELL THAT TO SHELDON.

HIM AND HIS BLUE TURTLENESS LOVES MY CUDDLES. <3

(Reblogged from mlesblog-deactivated20120325)

Amateur video of Knut's death surfaces

ryking:

“Footage shows famed polar bear walking in circles, collapsing into pool prior to sudden death at Berlin zoo.”

It looks like he had some kind of seizure before falling into his pool. No word yet on what, if anything, today’s autopsy might have turned up, when certain tests will be completed, or when the results will be published.

(Reblogged from diadoumenos)

Videos: The best of Knut the polar bear

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