Category: Rescue Animals

“When you ask what you should do with [an orphaned raccoon], they say, ‘Leave it alone and let nature take its course,’ or ‘You can take it to a vet and they will have to euthanize it,’” Nikki Robinson, who works in wildlife rehabilitation, told The Dodo. “That broke my heart. I couldn’t let that…

A bald eagle was freed from a tree by a patriotic Army veteran, who spent 90 minutes firing 150 shots into three branches ahead of the Fourth of July holiday. A bald eagle (pictured) was freed from a tree by a patriotic Army veteran, who spent 90 minutes firing 150 shots into three tree branches…

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The blind elephant had been rescued from a trekking camp, where she’d been forced to work, and all she wanted to do was relax and make new friends. As soon as she met Malai Ngun, her wish came true. Malai Ngun was also rescued from a trekking camp, so she knew all too well what…

New photos have been released of the touching moment a Brazilian fisherman hugs his penguin friend who swims 5,000 miles to see him every year after he saved his life in 2011. The penguin, called Dindim, was ѕпаррed in the village of Proveta on September 5 on Ilha Grande island, Brazil. гetігed bricklayer and part-time fisherman…

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Dozens of villagers battled for more than six hours to pull the stranded animal, named Ayyappan after a Hindu deity, from a quagmire on the banks of the Vembanad Lake, near the southern city of Kochi. Desperation: A mahout prepares to tie a rope around the elephant named Ayyappan as it sinks deeper into the…

The most recent remarkable snippet of animal behaviour comes to us from Minnesota. It shows a wolf mother carefully relocating her seven pups one by one from a den that was beginning to flood. The camera trap was put in place by the Voyageurs Wolf Project, a collaboration between the University of Minnesota and Voyageurs…

Loss is inevitable when you’re raising livestock, but this farmer still wanted to comfort his beloved sheep while she grieved her lamb. A sheep breeder on TikTok shared the most wholesome video of their father looking after one of these animals after she lost her baby. He sat with her, petted her, and even talked…