Category: Rescue Animals

Staff members at Animal Rescue Team have learned to expect a surprise or two from the coyote they rescued just six weeks ago. After all, she was the same animal who survived a 30-foot drop into a dried-out riverbed, dehydration, exposure to poison and, yes, a gunshot to the head. But they didn’t expect to…

An orphaned baby African elephant named Eliot, who ℓo𝕤ᴛ his family to a ℓι̇𝔤Һᴛпι̇п𝔤 𝕤ᴛ𝚛ι̇ҡe, has found solace and companionship with two older elephants at a sanctuary in Zimbabwe. Kadiki, aged three, and Beatrix, aged one, have their own harrowing stories of survival. Kadiki 𝕤υ𝚛ⱱι̇ⱱeɗ a lion αᴛᴛαᴄҡ when she was just a day old,…

The distressed bird was in such a state it was initially mistaken for a chicken A barn owl has been rescued after it got trapped in a ‘sticky’ bucket near Totnes. The animal, which was believed to have hatched this year, was discovered after it fell into a molasses bucket, a sugary mixture used to…

In Israel, donkeys are treated with sickening cruelty by people who have never been taught that animal cruelty is wrong. Donkeys are starved, brutally beaten, and worked to the bone, often collapsing from extreme exhaustion or succumbing to their horrific injuries. When the animals get sick or old, they are abandoned by their owners and…

With a thick rope looped around his lengthy neck, this giraffe appears to be unprepared for the аɩmіɡһtу tuck required to ɡet him oᴜt of tгoᴜЬɩe after he inadvertently became ѕtᴜсk in a waterhole. Safari rangers in South Africa’s Greater Kruger National Park were foгсed to step in, calling in additional staff to help free…

The goat had been intended as the tiger’s lunch, but now the pair have become some of the animal kingdom’s most unlikely friends. Staff at a Russian safari park are ‘stunned’ at the goat’s bravery and the Siberian tiger’s readiness to make friends with his meal. Extraordinary images show Amur, the obedient big cat, reduced…

It was the sound of someone crying out for help. Following the cries, Rachel came to find this — a young seal pup trapped between the rocks of a seawall and buried up to his neck in sand. It’s unclear how the seal came to be in such a desperate predicament, but Rachel could see…

According to a traditional carol, it’s partridges in pear trees we should be on the lookout for at this time of year, but one man found a very different kind of holiday surprise this Monday—a teeny owl hiding in the Rockefeller Center When a worker helping set up the iconic New York tree discovered a…

An old abandoned mineshaft in Victoria, Australia, ended up swallowing a very scared wild animal who probably would have died without the determined help of some kind people. Despite the dangers, Zabinskas knew he would have to go down there. Someone had alerted him to a trapped animal who had taken a wrong step —…

Three-kilo tongue believed to be a mutation and was so big it dragged on the ground and prevented the bear from eating A bear had emergency surgery to remove its tongue after it became so heavy that it lolled out of his mouth and dragged along the floor. Vets believe that the bizarre swelling, which…