Waking up while camping is usually a peaceful and serene experience. It’s just you and your friends surrounded by the natural sounds of nature as the critters in the forest start to stir awake. It can really be a life changing experience. One thing you would probably never expected to be woken up by while camping is Lions though. Unless you’re camping in a game reserve in Africa that is. Two tourists got the surprise of…
Cemeteries are not somewhere I go willingly. It’s not that I’m scared of them, it’s just…well they’re depressing. So much death in once place really throws me out of whack. When I am forced to enter them though, I like to try to be as respectful as possible. There is no telling what kind of supernatural things could be going on inside a place with so much death. So hearing noises coming from a tomb…
Growing up in the country, I had my fair share of interaction with wild animals. Living in the country meant that you had to deal with creatures such as coyotes. Coyotes are typically thought of as a nuisance animal, especially in areas with farms that have livestock. Coyotes are notorious for eating pigs, dogs and cats. Farmers tend to kill them when they have the opportunity because they can cause real financial loss to a…
UPS is one of everyone’s favorite companies this time of year because they are hard at working making sure all of our holiday packages make it to their destinations safely and on time! If you’ve ever met a UPS driver, you know they have vibrant, exuberant personalities and are some of the hardest workers I’ve ever come across. I look forward to meeting our UPS guy every week but he is in and out within…
Every single day for two weeks straight, this man’s son would go for a walk. The father and son live in a very rural part of the Philippines, and since the father was curious as to what his son was doing on his walks, one day he decided to tag along and follow him. What he found was both heart melting and heartbreaking. It turns out his son was taking care of poor stray dogs every…
Usually when someone is two-faced, we hold it against them. There’s even a super-villain named two-face who has been fighting Batman for years. Well there is nothing evil or villainous about this two-faced ball of fur. Meet Narnia, he is a two-toned cat who was born in 2017. Professional animal photographer Jean-Michel Labat shared photographs of Narnia and the pictures made headlines all over the internet. Well almost two years later we were wondering what…
Anytime I hear stories of humans risking their lives to save helpless animals, my heart melts just a little bit. We often think of ourselves as the only things that matter on this earth, but when we see stories like the one you’re about to read, we remember just how big this world is and just how many animals are living on it with us. When a young boy saw a baby deer drowning, he…
This majestic gorilla, Anaka, was born with a lack of pigmentation in her fingers. Her hand looks almost human-like, reminding us how close these distant ancestors actually are to us humans. Anaka is a Western Lowland Gorilla and lives at the Atlanta Zoo. She has a rare birthmark on her fingers resulting in light pigmentation causing it to appear like the hand of a person. This condition of Anaka’s wasn’t brought to the world’s attention…
Meet ‘Lady in a Fur Coat’, the sweet kitty known for her love of cuddles and head bumps. Lady found herself at the Dane County Humane Society with recurring hematoma and chronic infections in her ears. To alleviate her suffering, veterinarians at the shelter decided to remove her ears which left her looking a little funny. Ash Collins, an employee at the shelter was worried that the kitty would have a difficult time being adopted…
Sometimes animals are just so cute you want to kiss them! This is especially the case when it comes to cute and cuddly dogs and cats. But what would you do if you had the opportunity to pick up an alligator snapping turtle? Would you pick it up? Get a picture? How about giving it a kiss? Well, if you think you would do the first two, but the third one doesn’t sound like a…