Two lions have been shot dead after they attacked a man who had climbed into their enclosure at Santiago Zoo, Chile. The 20-year-old man had entered the enclosure in a bid to commit suicide. He remains in a grave...
Poor 16 year-old Hailey Ashmore has several debilitating medical conditions including: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, epilepsy, reactive hypoglycemia, many severe allergies, gastroparesis and pretty bad asthma.
For this Texan teenager, life can be tough. That's why her service dog...
Tansy Aspinall grew up in the British countryside like many other girls in her area. She went to school, had friends, and enjoyed a variety of hobbies. She really was just like any other little kid... Except she lived...
Juneau, Alaska. Wildlife photographer Nick Jans was out walking his Labrador one day when he saw something that made him stop dead in his tracks. It was a wolf. Out in the wild, Alaskan wolves can be quite savage....
If you've ever gone out hiking in the wilderness, there's a chance - depending on where you live, of course - that you might have come across a rattlesnake. Or at least heard one. The noise of their rattling...
Joao Pereira de Souza is a 71 year-old bricklayer from Brazil with a most unusual friend. A Patagonian penguin! That's right. The bird has been paying him annual visits, to his exact spot on the beach and staying with...
Punjab, India. A pair of sensational photographs have emerged which have taken the internet by storm. The snaps show a couple of puppies which have seemingly fallen down a well. But the well appears to double as a SNAKE...
Reese the Rottweiler is, despite his scary appearance and his breed's fearsome reputation, actually a pretty relaxed dog. In fact, most Rotties are unless you teach them to be scary. They're like any dog, in that respect. Pit Bull...
Dogs are pack animals, right? They hang around with other dogs - or humans - and exist as a constituent part of a wider entity. They like it that way. Don't they? Or do they secretly yearn to be...
Pets can be very communicative, can't they? Their facial expressions, noises and body language. Just the way they act speaks volumes. But what if they could actually speak volumes? In this video, Canadian video maker and musician Andrew Grantham imagines his...
Last summer, Jeff Longo was walking down the street in his hometown in Florida. It was a hot day (of course!). As he strolled, he noticed something on the sidewalk. It was a tiny little blob. He didn't know...
No one likes getting up and out of bed, do they? It's just so warm and nice and cosy in there. And getting up generally means you've got to be somewhere, with all the rushing about and things that...
Do you have pets? If so, no doubt you worry about them. It's only natural. They're like kids, aren't they? You just can't help but worry yourself sick sometimes. But it's not always them that might get into trouble....
It's a pleasure to get to spend time with any of God's creatures really, isn't it? Even our pet dogs and cats that we take for granted. But when it comes to slightly more unusual animals? If we get...
You love dogs, right? Right. Even if you're more of a cat person than a dog person, you'd never want to see a dog suffer. Only the most inhuman people in the world would. If you do love dogs...
