Rare Footage! Farm Welcomes the Birth of Alpaca Twins Named Maisie and Rosie
Alpaca twins are rare! Twins occur at approximately one in every 50,000 births! Alpacas are relatives of the camels, llamas, vicuñas, and guanacos under the family Camelidae. Like the llamas, they are a fully domesticated member of this family, believed to have been bred by the ancient people of the Andes from South America’s wild camelids centuries before the rise of the Incas. Photo: Tiktok/lanehousealpacas From ancient times until today, alpacas are valued for their fleece and meat which is high in protein and low in fat....
Stop, Bullies! Loving and Protective Mom Gives Joy to the Life of a Calf with Dwarfism
Getting bullied is painful. It can break someone’s heart when he cannot find friends, much less get avoided by everyone for being different. The experience makes you cringe deeper and deeper inside, even though you’re not to blame for the imperfection that makes others shun you — even sneer at you and say words intended to demean your character. Photo: Tiktok/knucklebumpfarms Getting bullied is painful even for animals like Watson. He’s the oldest but smallest calf in the Knuckle Bump Farms. No, we humans have no idea...
Pollinator Loss Lowers Healthy Crop Production, May Lead to Hundreds of Thousands of Excess Deaths
Pollinator numbers are dwindling, with research showing beekeepers in the United States alone lost 45.5% of their managed honey bee colonies between April 2020 and April 2021. The average year-to-year loss since 2006, meanwhile, is also high: estimated at 39.4%. This issue has an impact on our food supply, with nearly 100 of the U.S.’s specialty crops requiring pollination. Now, a new study has found that the interruption to pollination is impacting global health. Researchers from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health...
Golden Retriever Alerts Pregnant Owner To Dangerous Infection
A pregnant mama in Missouri is crediting her beloved dog with possibly saving the life of her unborn child. 30-year-old Brittany Welsh was 8 months pregnant when her golden retriever, Charlie, began acting strangely. Photo: TikTok/@mamabwelsh As she shared in a now-viral TikTok video, the dog wouldn’t stop nudging her belly and bopping her legs with his nose. It reportedly was because of his insistent nuzzling that she ended up going to the doctor to get checked out and that’s when the they discovered she was suffering from a...
Overworked Cats Making Biscuits Are Taking TikTok By Storm
If there’s one thing we can agree on about the internet, it’s the fact that cats are a huge part of it. Ever since the beginning days of the world wide web and social media, cats have played a key role in pop culture and viral trends. Photo: Pexels/Artem Makarov One of the most recent viral trends to take TikTok by storm is from cat owners showing off their “overworked cats making biscuits.” The cat owners pretend their cats are in a biscuit factory and are intensely kneading bread. It’s a joke people who...
Woman Uses Pop-Tart to Lure Stray Dog to Safety
This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! In March of 2013, I was driving down a highway, approaching a small country town in South Carolina, when I saw a small brown dog lying on the side of the road chewing on something. As an avid animal rescuer, my heart always goes out to the animals I see on the side of the road, but this dog had such a magnetic pull on me, I had to turn around. DOG. PHOTO: PIXABAY / MATHIAS LECHNER As soon...
Geriatric Orca Strands Self on Flagler County Beach, Succumbs to Illness Before Rescuers Could Intervene
An elderly female orca stranded on a beach in Florida has died from an unknown illness, reports NOAA. This is the first-ever incidence of a killer whale beaching itself along the Sunshine State’s coastlines to be reported. At this point, illness seems to be the cause of death vs. human ignorance. Killer Whales Whales and other sea creatures will strand or beach themselves from time to time, much to the torment of experts in the field. Marine biologists don’t fully understand the phenomenon, but it almost always follows some sort...
Handsome Boy Not Cut Out for Shelter Life Struggles with Hectic, Overcrowded Environment
Stress studies undertaken in the last few years confirm that rescue and shelter environments cause stress in animals. Some of them are so freaked out by everything going on around them that they fail to thrive and start losing their hair. Some are withdrawn and hide where no one can see them. They are, in essence, falling apart and need to get into foster programs or forever homes stat! Photo: Pima Animal Care Center Meet Kogi Kogi is a neutered sable-and-white American Pit Bull Terrier and Chinese Shar-pei mix believed to be under 3 years...
“Walrus from Space” Detectives Needed for British Antarctic Survey
Back in 2021, the call went out for internet sleuths to comb satellite images for walruses. Why? Because the British Antarctic Survey — in connection with the WWF — is trying to get an accurate estimate or count of walrus populations. According to the U.K. program, this is how it breaks down: Photo: Pixabay/PublicDomainImages What is Walrus from Space? “Walrus are facing the reality of the climate crisis, and we need to know more about how they are affected. WWF and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are asking the public to...
Depressed Shelter Dog Won’t Leave Her Bed, Even For Treats
Sadly, many working dog breeds end up in shelters because people don’t have the time, energy, or desire to exercise these dogs both mentally and physically. Life in a shelter is stressful and especially hard on dogs that are constantly overlooked. For the past 42 days, a husky named Pink has watched as people pass by her and adopt other dogs. She just wants someone to love. Julie Saraceno, a volunteer dog walker for Tri-Cities Animal Shelter, posted a video on TikTok showing just how depressed Pink is at the shelter. She wrote,...
New Year, New Opportunity to Use These 10 Tools and Resources!
Happy New Year! (Can we still say that, heading toward mid-month?) We’re taking this moment to re-introduce some of the multitude of tools and resources that we’ve got for you here at HASS. Here are ten you can put into action right now! Please browse and search the HASS website for even more, more, more. Because seriously, we’ve got a huge amount of pro resources, blogs, and webinars that can help you in your mission to keep families together and save animals’ lives. Pet Eviction Calculator Use our easy...
What Should You Know About Glucosamine for Dogs
When looking to support your pup’s optimal health, supplements will always come out as a hot topic. With many dog supplements on the market, all varying in price and health claims, it can be difficult for a new or even seasoned pet parent to choose the best ones. One thing is for sure: Recommendations for glucosamine for dogs have always remained a top choice among veterinarians, breeders and pet enthusiasts alike. Let’s jump right into discussing all things “glucosamine”! What is glucosamine for dogs? Glucosamine is a...
Camera Caught a Gorilla Deep in His Thoughts, and Twitter Users Had Fun Interpreting the Video
The internet is indeed a cornucopia of entertaining and informative animal content. Most of those contents are shared on social media, which goes viral a few minutes after being uploaded. A person’s curiosity about a particular species is gratified through social media posts. Understanding animal behaviors becomes even more interesting — such information can amuse or surprise you. The internet allows people to learn more about the world, even outside school. Perspectives are changed, and misconceptions are explained more clearly....
How to be open to new ideas at your animal organization
Want to be more open and inclusive at your animal well-being organization, but not sure where to begin? Looking at your current policies is a great starting point. This is what Allison Cardona of the County of Los Angeles Animal Care and Control and Alex Tonner, Paws for Life K9s, talk about in a huddle recording for the last Open Arms Challenge. The huddle was all about how letting go of old ideas can open new opportunities to processes that are equitable and inclusive. “We’re an incredibly diverse county, and the one...
A Horse Trio Finally Had Their Most Anticipated Reunion After Four Years Thanks to Their Human Mom
When animals grow up in groups or share the same home, they create bonds that last for a lifetime. They gain best friends they play with daily and do things together. Animals have an excellent sense of loyalty, creating a strong foundation for their friendships. That’s why it’s saddening to see an animal getting separated from their friends. Separation is inevitable significantly when they grow up in a farm, rescue center, or foster home. Animals may appear unbothered when they part ways, but signs of sadness will appear a few...
Greedy Pup in Texas Almost Burns Down House Scrounging for Cookies on Christmas Day
We’re usually worried about our cats jumping on the stove and accidentally turning the gas burners on only to start a fire. Well, this Christmas a family in Frisco, Texas, found it wasn’t a feline that almost burned their house down but actually their gluttonous pup in search of cookies! Photo: Pixabay/ArtisticOperations Pet-Related Accidents It wasn’t such a merry Christmas when Megan Black’s home started to burn on December 25. She was celebrating the holiday with her family in Celina when she got an alert on her...
Couple Rescues Filthy Underweight Puppy, Their Toddler Thinks She’s a Rat
This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! In the summer of 1975, my husband and I went for a ride in the Ramapo Mountains with our 2-year-old son. Something ran across the road in front of us. We looked at each other and said, “What was that?” I started yelling to stop the car, but my husband was reluctant because we didn’t know what it was. Needless to say, he stopped. DOG. PHOTO: PIXABAY / CHAOSCHOR I got out...
Vet Says a Large Part of Behavioral Issues in Dogs is Due to their Owners
Anyone who’s ever watched dog behaviorist Cesar Millan knows that more often than not, it isn’t the dogs that are the problem but their humans. So it should come as no surprise when Rory Cowlam, aka Rory the Vet, told Country Living, “It’s lovely that people care so much about their animals, however, it leads to a large part of the behavioral issues that we see in pets these days. We are seeing an absolute behavior pandemic in our dogs, and the issue is the owners.” Photo: Pixabay/825545 Happy Dogs Most pet...
This Little Package of Dynamite Needs Someone to Keep Up with Her
It’s all well and good being called sweet, dazzling, adorable, pure fun, and other compliments that border on platitudes, but they ring hollow when nobody wants to be your best bud or a part of their family. If she could talk, that’s probably what Luna would confide to you, but she can’t, so she won’t, but we will. Luna is a gorgeous German Shepherd and Pit Bull Terrier mix that has been at the Pima Animal Care Center shelter in Tucson since March 20, 2022, through absolutely no fault of her own. She’s spayed,...
The Story of Swoop and Mowgli: How a Magpie and a Cat Became Fast Friends
This unlikely story of friendship between a rescued magpie and a family cat will definitely warm your heart. It seems one day a volunteer firefighter in New Zealand by the name of Matt Owens saw an injured magpie chick on the side of the road. Too young to fly, he named the bird Swoop and brought it home to care for it there. There was only one hitch: Matt had a cat. Photo: YouTube/@swoopandmowgli5226 Unusual Friendships While you’re probably assuming the story ended badly after Swoop’s arrival or that, at the very least, it took...
