Yorkie Torn From Home By Tornado After Warning Family – Returns Home Hours Later Unharmed
Yorkshire terrier named Penny saved her family by warning them a deadly tornado was about to hit. On Monday evening, just before midnight, an EF-3 Tornado leveled homes as it tore through Brunswick County, North Carolina. Three people were killed and another ten injured as the tornado left a path of destruction in Sunset Beach and Ocean Isle Beach. Brittany Memory’s home in Ocean Isle Beach was in the direct path of the deadly tornado. She said Penny sensed trouble and sat up in bed. The power had just gone out and Brittany thought it...
Today is a great day to enter your data on Shelter Animals Count
With January behind us, what better time to enter your January 2021 Shelter Animals Count (SAC) data? If you haven’t completed your 2020 data, it’s not too late to add that either! After you have entered all your organization’s data, be sure to explore the data on the Data Dashboards. There, you can study data from different parts of the country, view the national 2020 timeline and more. Data plays an important role in the animal welfare sector. It has enabled our industry to compile a more realistic picture of the animals...
After Adoption, Rescued Cat Saves New Family By Smelling A Dangerous Gas Leak In Their Home
When Sandi and Mike Martin adopted Lilly, the Oregon couple was eager to help save an animal’s life. Little did they know that this rescued cat was about to save their lives in return. Lilly has feline leukemia and 3 extra toes, which decreased her general odds of adoption in the shelter. But after fostering Lilly, the Martins — who had experience caring for special needs cats — decided to officially welcome the special needs cat into their family, thus giving this rescued cat a second chance at life. It wouldn’t be...
Student Finds A Giant Huntsman Spider And Hundreds Of Babies Swarming Her Oven
Australia is notorious for being the home to all sorts of interesting creatures. From glowing marsupials to dinner-plate-sized spiders, it’s enough to get you either really excited or keep you far from the place. Recently though, one student experienced a moment that’ll make you glad you don’t live in Australia (or terrified if you do?). Imogen Moore walked into her kitchen like any other day, but what she stumbled upon was far from ordinary. It was a scene straight from a nightmare. A giant mother huntsman spider and...
Rescuers Work To Save Thousands Of ‘Cold-Stunned’ Sea Turtles In Texas
Texas is experiencing a historical snowstorm, unlike anything they’ve seen in the past century. Millions of people are without power, water, or electricity. However, it’s not just people that are suffering due to the storm. Thousands of sea turtles are in critical condition due to the extreme temperature changes. Rescuers at Sea Turtle, Inc., a conservation group dedicated to sea turtles, have been gathering up the cold-stunned sea turtles around South Padre Island in Texas. Without interference, thousands of the endangered...
After Years Of Brave Service, Former Military K-9 Flown 4,000 Miles To Reunite With Her Handler
Like most military K-9s, 5-year-old detection dog Bogi played a key role in fighting crime by helping her trainer and handler, Marine Sgt. Angela Cardone, sniff out drugs. But their working partnership was cut short when Cardone was reposted to Hawaii. Then Bogi suffered another setback when she broke a bone in her neck, leaving the Belgian Malinois unable to work, wear a collar, and essentially ending the brave dog’s military career. Photo: Facebook/Angela Cee However, the upside of early retirement was that Bogi was now free to...
Community Rushes To Save Thousands Of Stunned Sea Turtles In Texas After Winter Storm
Residents of South Padre Island, Texas, are coming together to help save stunned sea turtles after a brutal winter storm hit the area. The deadly storm brought below-freezing temperatures, snow, ice, and power outages. As the water temperature dropped below 50 degrees, the endangered sea turtles started to float to the surface unable to move or swim. This phenomenon is known as cold-stunning. If the turtles are not rescued or returned to warm water, they will become sick and die. Photo: Facebook/Sea Turtle, Inc “Cold stunning may lead...
Cat Dies After Saving Family Members From Deadly Snake Bite
Family pets are just that — part of the family. The love shared, and bonds made, between them and their family members are treasured, valued, and irreplaceable. The variety of birds, cats, dogs, hamsters, hermit crabs, and more that I visited when I saw family definitely converted me into an animal lover at an early age! That closeness that many of us feel with the animal kingdom does, however, come at a cost. Sadly, it is often in the most tragic circumstances that we see just how much our pets mean to us, and how much we mean to them....
Koala Rescued After A 5-Car Pileup On Australian Freeway
Australia, for those that have never visited, can seem like an almost mythical place – Christmas in the summer, the fictional “drop bear” invented to scare tourists, and the many real-life, strange animals that call it home can all lead outsiders to never know exactly what news reports to believe about the land down under. It’s no surprise, then, that many social media users jumped to conclusions after reports of a five car pileup on a busy Adelaide freeway. The crash, some believed, was caused not by a runaway...
Mom Finds A Giant Spider Guarding An Egg Sac Inside Her Son’s Toy Truck
If you happen to be somebody who is afraid of spiders, then this story is going to give you the willies. On the other hand, if you have arachnophobia, it may just make you run screaming in the other direction. This story is out of Western Australia, where we are accustomed to hearing about strange creatures that roam about in the countryside. As it turns out, there are also some spiders that are rather large in the area and Brooke Thorpe managed to find one. The spider was in her son’s toy truck and was guarding an egg sac with hundreds...
