Cat survives long fall by being netted in an American flag!
Ceiling Cat bless America! This is a lucky cat who was saved by some nice people. The moggie was hanging precariously from a cable at Miami’s Hard Rock stadium the other day during a football game. The...
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Baby elephant and mom get stuck in the mud, but are rescued by “first...
If this video doesn’t make you tear up, you have a heart of stone! This was a really dicey situation: a female African elephant gets badly stuck in the mud, and her baby, refusing to leave her side,...
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King Penguin in the Edinburgh Zoo gets promoted to brigadier general in the...
What can I say? Here are the YouTube notes for this wonderful video showing the inspection of a penguin who has his own Wikipedia page, Nils Olav. On Monday morning, 22 August, His Majesty the King of...
View ArticleAnimals being rescued
As does NBC News each evening, I’ll end today with another feel-good story: in this case a video of people helping animals in trouble. It’s this kind of stuff that I really go to Twitter and Facebook...
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Rescued kangaroo becomes family member, couch potato (plus lagniappe)
This post from Aubtu, which looks like a clickbait, feel-good site, is what I need at the end of another long day (I have a sore throat and am feeling grotty, but a Covid test shows that I’m negative)....
View ArticleMan rescues Indian cobra trapped in a fishing net, gives it a big drink of water
The Indian or spectacled cobra (Naja naja) is widespread in South Asia, and is the “classical” cobra that Westerners are familiar with from wildlife shows, movies, Kipling stories, etc. The one shown...
View Article61-year old cockatoo, living in dire conditions, gets rescued, adopted, and...
This is the feel-good post to end the pre-Thanksgiving website. Posting will be light tomorrow as I want to have a holiday, too. Here’s the video story of an elderly (60 year old) cockatoo who had...
View ArticleFantastic video: Eastern black rhino born at Chester zoo
I couldn’t resist putting up this video of an Eastern Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli being born at the Chester Zoo in England. It’s a subspecies of the black rhino, and is critically...
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