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Sharp-Shooting Army Vet Saves Bald Eagle Stuck Upside Down in Tree
by Shifra on July 4, 2016Great shot! Via American Mirror. It an incident that is quintessentially American, an Army veteran saw a baby bald eagle trapped high in a tree and decided to do something about it. Jason Galvin says he saw the bird dangling upside down near the end of a tree branch about 75 feet in the air near his cabin in Rush City, Minnesota. Galvin could see the bird’s foot was somehow caught in a rope…. Galvin and his wife Jackie called multiple agencies but they say the government bureaucrats all declined to try to help our national bird. “I told them they were wrong and it was very much alive and somebody needed to help it immediately!” Jackie Galvin says…. “I...
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Cat Evicted from Texas Library Wins Reprieve
by Shifra on July 3, 2016Sorry for everyone with a cat allergy. But hurray for Browser! Via Dallas News. Two weeks after the White Settlement City Council voted to kick a beloved cat out of the public library, city leaders have reversed course and will let Browser remain a live-in mascot. The Fort Worth suburb’s governing body voted 3-0 on Friday to let Browser stay, following backlash from their 2-1 decision in June to give the tabby 30 days to find a new home. Browser, a former shelter cat, had been at the library nearly six years before council member Elzie Clements called for his removal. Mayor Ron White has said Browser got caught in the political crossfire after a city employee wasn’t allowed to...
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Iran Confiscates Dogs in Crackdown on ‘Vulgar Western Culture’ of Canine Ownership
by Shifra on June 26, 2016Outrageous. Via Times of Israel. Dog lovers in central Iran are in uproar after authorities began confiscating their pets in an apparent crackdown on the “vulgar Western culture” of canine ownership, Iranian media reported Saturday. One unnamed dog owner in Shahin Shahr in Isfahan province told Iran’s Shahrvand newspaper that officials had shown up suddenly at his house last week. “We were shown a piece of paper indicating they were from the municipal veterinary office. They came in and took away our dogs under the pretext of vaccination,” he said. The owner was told he could recover the dog after its vaccination, but when he went to the vet’s office they had no record of his case. Instead, the newspaper...
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(Video) Scary Moment When Bear Opens Car Door As Family Takes Pictures
by Shifra on June 19, 2016I’m not sure which one is more idiotic: The father forgetting to lock the car door before they drove into Yellowstone National Park, or the mother telling the kids to “stop screaming.” Via Yahoo News. Footage…captures the moment the wildlife encounter turned terrifying as the bear uses its paw to open the car door…. “Oh, the bear’s right next to us,” the boy shouts as his dad attempts to take some photos of the animal anyway…. “Oh my goodness”, the boy can be heard yelling as the curious bear frees the door, while his sister shrieks in horror. The mother…shouts to her children who are clearly freaking out: “hey, stop screaming”, as the car accelerates to get away. ****************************************************
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Bretagne, the Last Known 9/11 Search & Rescue Dog, Has Passed Away
by Tammy on June 7, 2016So sweet and good, and a hero to boot. Last year Bretagne (pronounced Brittany) was honored in New York. I have a feeling Bretagne will be the BFF for all the angels. They need dogs just like we do! Pray for her and may she Rest in Peace. Via Fox News. The last known living search dog who helped recover victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks died in a Houston suburb at age 16. A statement from the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service says Bretagne (pronounced like Brittany), a Golden Retriever, was euthanized at a veterinary clinic in Cypress. The Houston Chronicle reported that around two dozen firefighters lined the sidewalk as Bretagne was brought into the veterinarian’s...
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Obama-Backed Solar Plant Known For Incinerating Birds Has Incinerated Itself
by Shifra on May 22, 2016Karma! Via Daily Caller. The world’s largest solar energy plant known for incinerating birds just got a taste of its own medicine. A fire at the plant Thursday morning, which may have been caused by “misaligned” mirrors used to reflect sunlight at boiler towers, broke out in the facility’s interior — literally scorching parts of the plant. NRG Energy, the company operating the Ivanpah solar plant in southern California, was forced to shut down one of its generating towers and is investigating if mirrors, or heliostats, failed and torched a boiling tower. Now, the plant, which got $1.6 billion from the Obama administration, will only be able to generate electricity from one of its three towers….. This only adds to...
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Hero Dog Saves Girl From Rattlesnake
by Shifra on May 13, 2016Kudos and prayers for a speedy recovery to Haus! Via NY Post. When a venomous Eastern diamondback rattlesnake appeared in the backyard of a 7-year-old Florida girl, her German shepherd came to her rescue, refusing to back down despite multiple snakebites. And now, hundreds of donors are coming to her family’s rescue, quickly topping the goal of $15,000 Friday on a GoFundMe account to help pay for the antivenin needed to keep the dog alive. Molly DeLuca was playing with her 2-year-old shepherd, named Haus, when the snake showed up on Wednesday. Haus jumped between them and was bitten three times, suffering damage to his kidneys. Vets are now expecting a full recovery…. ****************************************************
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[Video] Cat Defies Firemen’s Awful Rescue Attempt
by Shifra on May 11, 2016Thankfully, this cat has very quick reflexes 🙂 HT Telegraph. Tightroping cat defies firemen's awful rescue… by telegraphvideo
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[Video] Paying It Forward: Man Saves Dog, Who Saves Hummingbird
by Shifra on May 9, 2016Kudos to Ed, Rex… and Hummer! HT CNS News.
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Happy Mother’s Day To Moms of These New Zoo Arrivals
by Shifra on May 8, 2016Sweet pics. Enjoy! Via Haaretz: Jerusalem Zoo welcomes three baby giraffes in one month Three giraffes have given birth in the last month in the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem. The calves are the second generation of a family that was brought to Israel from South Africa 10 years ago…. Newborn giraffe calves are usually 1.80 to 1.90 meters tall at birth, and they can grow as much as half meter in height in their first month…. Via Deutsche Welle: German zoo welcomes arrival of rare white lion cubs Germany’s Magdeburg Zoo has been showing off its latest new arrivals: a pair of white lion cubs. The twins came as something of a surprise to zoo staff, who hadn’t noticed the...
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[Video] In the Meantime… Meet the Amazing Collie Agility Master Neo!
by Tammy on May 6, 2016Thanks to Debra Burlingame for bringing this dog with amazing agility abilities to our attention!
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Great News! 33 Rescued Circus Lions Now Home in Africa, Safe in Sanctuary
by Tammy on May 4, 2016When human want to make things better, this is what we can do. Great work by Animal Defenders International! You can follow them on Twitter @AnimalDefenders. Here’s part of their story from The Dodo: The cargo plane that carried 33 lions from Lima, Peru, to Johannesburg, South Africa, over the weekend broke more than records. It broke chains. For good. The lions, all rescued from illegal circuses in Peru and Colombia, were part of the biggest exodus Animal Defenders International (ADI) has ever organized. Rescuers say it was the biggest lion transport ever. But more importantly, the passage to South Africa, dubbed Operation Spirit of Freedom, represents a new beginning for lions who had been languishing in circus cages for...
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Talking Cat Collar ‘Translates’ Meows Into Human Speech
by Tammy on April 30, 2016Maybe. Maybe not. Snoopy says, "That's impossible! Hey, pick up more sushi while you're out. Kthxbye!"
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$7 Billion Large Hadron Collider Shut Down by Weasel
by Tammy on April 29, 2016Not a human jerk, an actual weasel. The weasel didn’t make it (may he rest in peace, the little fella), but the LHC is down, too. Via NPR. A small mammal has sabotaged the world’s most powerful scientific instrument. The Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile superconducting machine designed to smash protons together at close to the speed of light, went offline overnight. Engineers investigating the mishap found the charred remains of a furry creature near a gnawed-through power cable. “We had electrical problems, and we are pretty sure this was caused by a small animal,” says Arnaud Marsollier, head of press for CERN, the organization that runs the $7 billion particle collider in Switzerland. Although they had not conducted a...