South Korea’s slaughterhouse shut down
South Korea shuts down its largest dog meat slaughterhouse By: Alicia Graef From Care2 Animal advocates are celebrating a major milestone among efforts to end the dog meat trade in South Korea with the closure of the country’s largest slaughterhouse….
Absolute moo-nit: Look at this really big cow
BY CHLOE BRYAN From Mashable Friends, gather round. We’d like you to look at this really big cow (OK, steer) named Knickers, who is six feet, three inches tall and currently dwarfing his peers on a farm in Western Australia….
Cat tongue properties
An Observant Mechanical Engineer’s Discovery of Surprising Cat Tongue Properties BY RAIN NOE From Core77 Dr. Alexis Noel was watching her family’s cat clean itself, as you do when you go home for the holidays, when she noticed that his…
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Rare footage captured of the world’s most endangered rhino
By: Alicia Graef From Care2 A lucky team of conservationists has shared an encounter of a lifetime after capturing rare images and footage of an elusive, and critically endangered, Javan rhino. Javan rhinos were once widespread across India, Bhutan, Bangladesh,…
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Do pets really make people healthier?
By: Mary Daly From Care2 Who exactly are the people sharing their homes with animals? And how does it affect their lives? One large study aimed to explore just that. It’s been widely reported that pet scan improve our health…
Comfort Dogs provide hugs to help Thousand Oaks Heal
By: Laura Goldman From Care2 They provided furry consolation after the shooting massacres in Newtown, Orlando and Las Vegas, and now comfort dogs have flown in from around the country to Thousand Oaks, Calif., to hug people suffering from a…
Bridgeport, Connecticut, passes wild animal circus ban
From AD-International Animal Defenders International (ADI) applauds the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut, whose City Council last night unanimously voted to ban wild and exotic animal circus acts. The second city in the state, after Stamford, to pass such a ban,…
US: Joe Biden adopted a German shepherd and he’s precious
BY NICOLE GALLUCCI From Mashable Joe Biden just welcomed a majorly cute addition to his family — a German shepherd named Major. On Saturday, the former Vice President and his wife Jill officially adopted Major the rescue dog, who they’ve…
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Grand Cayman is overrun with green iguanas
From The Economist The government wants to bring back the blue variety The cayman islands, a British territory, does not tax companies. So Grand Cayman, its largest part, has more companies (106,000) than people (61,000). Its population of green iguanas…
Nearly 170 dogs rescued from horrific Iowa Puppy Mill
By: Laura Goldman From Care2 Months ago, animal rescue groups in northern Iowa notified the Worth County Sheriff’s Office about a commercial breeder who was keeping dogs in terrible conditions without proper care. “We have tried to work with the…
