<p>A dog in a parked Nebraska truck triggered a loaded shotgun, shooting a woman at a nearby stoplight. Here’s exactly what happened.</p>
<p>You close the last tab of a video call, open a new document, and start typing. Thirty seconds later, there’s a weight on your wrists. A chin on the keyboard. A tail draped across the trackpad with what can only be described as deliberate calm. Your cat, who has been asleep in another room for…</p>
<p>Cats don’t tend to announce when something is wrong. You go to fill the bowl and realize you haven’t seen them since yesterday morning. You check the usual spots, the sunny patch on the sofa, the top of the wardrobe, behind the washing machine. Nothing. Most of the time they do come back. But some…</p>
<p>Ask any parent who finally caved to years of “please, please, please can we get a dog” begging, and they’ll tell you the same thing: the moment that dog walked through the front door, something shifted. The noise level went up. The chaos multiplied. And somehow, impossibly, the house felt more alive than it ever…</p>
<p>Raccoons have been sharing our neighborhoods for long enough that most people have settled into a vague truce with them. You see one on the fence, it stares at you for a moment, you stare back, and eventually one of you moves on. They knock over the bins, they eat the cat food left on…</p>
<p>Most dog owners can tell you the exact moment they first noticed something was off. Maybe their dog didn’t run to the door like usual. Maybe they left half their bowl untouched, or just lay in the corner staring at nothing. It’s one of those quiet, stomach-dropping realizations – the kind where you’re not sure…</p>
<p>Every spring, the same scene plays out across backyards in North America. You fill the feeder, pull up a lawn chair, and wait for the cardinals and chickadees. Then something else arrives first. Maybe a hundred of them. Maybe they’ve already stripped the feeder bare and are standing on your lawn looking entirely too comfortable….</p>
Rescuers in Indonesia also found 115 drinking cups and 25 plastic bags. A dead sperm whale that washed up in a national park in Indonesia had about 13 pounds of plastic waste in its stomach. According to the Associated Press, rescuers from Wakatobi National Park discovered a large lump of plastic waste inside the 31-foot...
The maker of Cadbury chocolate bars, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers is accused of destroying tens of thousands of hectares of orangutan habitat in just two years for palm oil. Suppliers to food giant Mondelez have destroyed 70,000 hectares since 2016, analysis by Greenpeace International claims, pushing the primate further towards extinction. The areas razed to the ground include 25,000 hectares of...
An animal rescue organization is offering a reward for information after finding a dolphin shot to death in Manhattan Beach, California. Marine Animal Rescue, of El Segundo, posted a $5,000 reward to their Facebook page on Friday after a necropsy revealed a dolphin died from a gunshot wound. Peter Wallerstein, founder and president of the...
Spider babies may be more like our infants than we thought. Mother spiders can produce nutritious milk-like fluids to feed their offspring. Juvenile spiders eat all kinds of food: in some spider species they feed on small insects, and in others they catch pollen. Previous research has also found some spiders simply don’t eat anything...
A rare polar bear that was spotted outside a cottage in a remote village in Iceland was shot by police after being considered a threat, authorities said Friday. The bear was killed Thursday afternoon in the northwest of Iceland after police consulted the Environment Agency, which declined to have the animal relocated, Westfjords Police Chief Helgi Jensson...
