Category: Rescue Animals

Earlier this month, the rescue of a stranded bald eagle from Lake Michigan in the United States became a hot topic. Due to the severe cold, the eagle had a large block of ice stuck to its tail feathers and was unable to remove it, leaving it lost on the frozen lake. Fortunately, the eagle…

Last week, a wild 6-month-old hedgehog, named Pumpkin, was found by a passerby in the most unusual of conditions. Far from the prickly appearance his species is known for, this pudgy little fellow was almost entirely absent of spikes, leaving him defenseless against predators. Fortunately, he was rescued in time and offered safe haven with…

Mother bear was far from being amused when she saw her three cubs sliding down a waterfall in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. The video begins with the anxious mother standing at the side of a low waterfall, watching one of her cubs going over the top. When the second shares the same fate, she takes…

This is the amazing moment a bald eagle attempts to steal a fisherman’s catch before the kind trawlerman decides to share. In the video, a colleague can be heard laughing as the bird of prey pesters Mathias with a second eagle standing nearby. The man asks: ‘What does he want, your fish, man?’ The man…

When people find them alone, they often make the mistake of believing they need to be rescued, when in fact, it’s more than likely the fawn’s mother will return for him or her. Since fawns are too weak to keep up with their mothers for the first few weeks of their lives, they typically wait…

This is the adorable moment a baby elephant and its family walk through an area cleared by lumberjacks. Phantom the elephant was filmed struggling to cross a fallen tree trunk in Chowkham village, in north east India, on Monday afternoon The elephant family are regulars in the village and a local tends to them and uses…

When Monika Melichar received a call about an abandoned baby deer, she hoped the mom would return. But several hours later, the people spotted the fawn and heard the little one crying for help again. The baby deer could barely walk, but she knew she could trust the family at the nearby cottage. “She knew…

Footage from Olare Motorogi Conservancy in south-west Kenya shows a calf being darted by a veterinary team with a tranquiliser after it was injured by a poacher’s snare on his hind leg. The distressed mother tries to protect her unconscious baby after the animal was caught in a poacher’s snare Heartbreaking footage shows the mother…

This lifeless fox cub was found lying near a factory in Oldham, England. The workers tried to stir her but she wouldn’t move, so they called Paul McDonald, a local fox specialist, for help. “Upon picking her up and seeing the condition she was in, I didn’t think she was going to survive,” McDonald told…