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Japan Opens The First Home For Elderly Dogs

by Laurie Kay Olson

Caring for an elderly pet can be a wonderful and heartwarming experience. However, it is not one that everyone can handle emotionally. It is hard watching your old friend get old, infirm, and struggle. Now there is an answer -- if you've got serious bucks and live in Japan. There one business has opened as a "nursing" home for dogs.

by Ron Callari

Must say. . . professional futbol players have an age-old tradition of conducting themselves in a very gentleman-like fashion. As evidenced at this year's World Cup in Brazil, if one player trips or elbows another and causes him to take a fall, you'll often see them helping their opponents back onto their feet, or rubbing their head, or apologizing by offering a handshake.

by M Dee Dubroff

If ever an animal symbolized the "bah, humbug" concept associated with the holidays, it is Grumpy Cat. Whoever would have thought that such a cat would get her own Lifetime movie deal? Read on or the latest on this up-and-coming holiday film project.

World Cup 2014 Winners Determined By Psychic Animals?

by Ron Callari

Animals seem to have leg up on the bookmakers when it comes to wagers made to determine winners in major sporting events. But you got to hand it to our furry and reptilian friends - after several different species were successful in picking the winner of the last Super Bowl in the States, it's not a stretch to think that animals outside of our borders could be just as accurate with their winning picks.

by Laurie Kay Olson

A pool man is being hailed as a hero after he rescued a small ground squirrel from a pool he was working on. He took the soggy, unresponsive rodent, laid it over a pipe, and began to gently give it cardio-pulmonary resucitation. He had to move carefully to find the little guy's rib cage, but he succeeded.

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Man In Gorilla Suit Accidentally Shot By Vet At The Zoo

by Laurie Kay Olson

Zoos around the world stage escaped animal drills, but few of the drills end in the drama that one did at the Loro Parque in Tenerife, the Canary Islands. Earlier this month the zoo held just such a drill, but somehow not everyone got the memo. This led to a somewhat comic episode that could have ended in tragedy.

Magazine Ad Campaign Envisions CEOs As Animals

by Ron Callari

Brazilian luxury magazine, TOP has launched a brand new advertising campaign with a highly questionable pitch. With an assist from their ad agency, ALMAPBBDO (now, say that one five times fast), this marketing approach has gone to great lengths to convince their readers and rich people in general. . .

Obese Clouded Leopard Redefines The Term “Fat Cat”

by Creature Features

An old and obviously overfed Clouded Leopard languishing alone at the Chengdu Zoo in southwestern China is direly in need of a diet, a workout and a purr-sonal trainer.

by Laurie Kay Olson

Of all of the ideas out there for helping wild animals this one may be the strangest one ever. The Phillip Island Penguin Foundation has been using sweaters to help penguins recover from being caught up in an oil spill. There is a little controversy over this plan as to whether or not it is really necessary.

by Laurie Kay Olson

We all know someone out there who is against keeping wild animals as pets. It is a controversial issue as more and more states are limiting or outlawing keeping wild animals. But what if that animal has chosen to stay with its human family of its own free will? The Renaud family of Ottawa, Canada, have found themselves in just such a position with Walter the Crow.