Author: Juba

An abandoned Pit Bull with a wobbly stance spent nearly a year at Pasado’s Safe Haven, an animal sanctuary northeast of Seattle. Now the pup, Finnegan, has finally found his forever home. Sanctuary Director Stephanie Perciful says Finnegan was abandoned after months of suspected neglect, and that he had ingested hard drugs. After being picked up as a stray a few times, Finnegan ultimately ended up in a shelter, where he was in danger of being…

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Rachael Lawrence of Essex, England, heard the meow of her lost cat Barnaby while on the phone with her vet, who had taken the feline in, thinking the pet was a stray CREDIT: SWNS Barnaby, a cat missing for eight months, reunited with his family after his owner recognized the feline’s distinct meow in the background of a phone call. On Jan. 11, the missing pet’s owner, Rachael Lawrence, was on the phone with her…

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CREDIT: GAYRENE MEADE When Juliet the golden retriever service dog moved in with her handler — 8-year-old Memphis Rose Hamman — the first thing the canine did was snuggle her young best friend. “Juliet was happy and sweet, and Memphis Rose was excited to see her pal,” her mother Gayrene Meade, 31, tells PEOPLE about the dog, who recently completed training to be Juliet’s service animal. “But Juliet has to transition from service dog training into…

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“All I could think about is ‘This animal needs help,’” said Christina Eyth, who found the unidentified animal alone in freezing temperatures on her Pennsylvania property CREDIT: WILDLIFE WORKS-MOUNT PLEASANT An animal rescued last week in Pennsylvania has experts stumped. Wildlife Works in Mount Pleasant began treating an unidentified creature on Jan. 17, after Christina Eyth of Fairfield Township found paw prints outside her home that led her to an emaciated, freezing animal, which she told NBC…

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A pet dog had to be rescued from a frozen river in Plainville, New York, after it chasing geese out onto the ice and getting stuck. Images taken at the scene of the rescue on Thursday (January 13) and posted by Plainville Fire Department to Facebook showed the small dog, reportedly a Shih Tzu, standing out in the middle of the Seneca River, which was partially frozen over with ice. Subsequent photos taken during the rescue effort…

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New York’s Suffolk County Police Department shared that officers found the distressed fawn floating “half-submerged in the icy water roughly 60 feet off-shore” CREDIT: SUFFOLK POLICE DEPARTMENT Police officers in New York rescued a baby deer stuck in dangerously cold waters. According to a news release from the Suffolk County Police Department, a park ranger first spotted the distressed fawn stuck in the chilly waters of Narrow Bay in Shirley, New York, on Sunday. News of the…

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CREDIT: ZOO ATLANTA The Zoo Atlanta family is mourning the death of its oldest male gorilla. Ozzie, a Western lowland gorilla, was found dead in his enclosure by his care team at the age of 61 on Tuesday. He was the third-oldest gorilla in the world and the oldest at the zoo, the zoo said in an announcement. “This is a devastating loss for Zoo Atlanta. While we knew this time would come someday, that inevitability…

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CREDIT: INGRAM BOROUGH POLICE/FACEBOOK A cat in Pennsylvania was rescued on Wednesday after getting trapped inside a car’s engine. Ingram Borough police (IBPD) shared on Facebook that an employee at a local automotive shop freed the feline after the cat wedged itself inside a silver Chevrolet, likely to escape the area’s cold weather. Temperatures in the Pittsburgh area had started to plummet Tuesday, with highs dropping from the low 30s to the mid-teens in 24 hours.…

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CREDIT: METIN AKTAS/ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES Since humans began nurturing cats as pets, the brains of felines have gotten significantly smaller, a new study has found. Research published in the Royal Society Open Science Journal on Wednesday notes that the skull sizes of domestic cats were much smaller than those of European wildcats and African wildcats. The study of brain sizes of domestic cats compared to their wild counterparts goes back several decades. However, to determine if the pattern…

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Cat’s out of the bag — the Bidens have a new pet! On Friday, a spokesman for First Lady Dr. Jill Biden confirmed to PEOPLE that the family has welcomed a two-year-old cat named Willow to the White House. The first lady, 70, named the cat after her hometown of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, and the short-haired tabby is grey and white. As Willow settles into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. with plenty of treats, toys, and room to roam, the spokesman…

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