Ever feeling blue and think, “God, I wish I could hug a llama right about now”? Well you can! Therapy llamas and alpacas are being used all across the country to buoy the spirits of the elderly and ill, bringing their fuzzy adorableness right to your door for some therapeuticContinue Reading
The Thai Elephant Orchestra is, remarkably, just what it sounds like – the biggest band in the world!. The players, all former work elephants with nowhere to go, have been trained to play enormous percussion instruments, holding mallets in their trunks and sometimes trumpeting along. Elephants seem to like toContinue Reading
Sergeant Ross Gundlach spent a whole year in Afghanistan with a yellow lab named “Casey”, a bomb sniffing dog. Together they went on over 150 successful bomb sniffing missions. The two became so close, Sergeant Gundlach put a tattoo of Cacy with angel wings and halo on his arm. WhenContinue Reading
What does every little girl want as a gift? A pony!! Two little girls got their wish when their father, Eric Reid, found a baby horse in desperate need for help. Eric is the manager of the Bureau of Land Management facility in Delta, Utah. The facility takes care ofContinue Reading
Damian Aspinall, a British conservationist, raised a young gorilla named Kwibi since he was an infant at Howletts Wild Animal Park in England. When Kwibi reached the age of 5, Damian released him into the wild in Gabon, West Africa. Damian’s “Aspinall Foundation” has been releasing captive gorillas back intoContinue Reading
Good News – The Baywatch supermodel, Pamela Anderson has made another rescue!! She has been an avid animal supporter since her youth. Now a vegan, Pamela was only in her early teens when she became vegetarian. The blonde beauty actively campaigns and poses for the animal protection organization People forContinue Reading
Standing at 7 ft 6 inches, Yao Ming, the former NBA star from China is a rarity with respect to height. Yao Ming is now protecting another increasingly rare population – rhinos and elephants. He is using his fame and big heart to convince his fellow Chinese citizens and theContinue Reading
DeeDee Murry loves her longhaired dachshund, Hallie. She found Hallie at an animal rescue in 2001. You can say it was love at first sight. DeeDee took her home and never looked back. DeeDee Murry, a Seattle native, is a professional painter who creates beautiful realistic animal portraits. Hallie always watchesContinue Reading
Lions are known as some of the most ferocious animals on the planet, so a tender moment between a father and his cub captured on camera in the wilds of Africa is generating a lot of buzz. “The lion photos have hit it quite big because it’s the cub meeting his dad for the first time ever,” saidContinue Reading
PORTAGE – The North American Wood Bison is still on the endangered species list, but its numbers are thriving at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. The Wood Bison Recovery Program started at AWCC almost ten years ago with 13 bison from Canada. Now there are 120 and dozens more onContinue Reading