Ford Creates a Noise-Cancelling Kennel Prototype to Protect Dogs from Fireworks Noise
It’s always very sad to see how upset and nervous dogs get while fireworks are blasting away on the Fourth of July and New Year’s Eve (and sometimes on other occasions depending on where you live). The loud bangs can scare dogs badly and sometimes it seems like nothing will calm them back down. Well,...
People Are Talking About How Weird Toucans Really Are, Sharing Facts About Them On Tumblr
I think I’ve been pretty clear and consistent in all of my writings that birds totally freak me out. They’re a little too smart, their beaks a tad too sharp…they’re just too much like dinosaurs for my liking. That said, I have no trouble admitting that they’re interesting, and fun facts are business, so…here are...
New Study Shows That Cats Are Less Stressed When They Have Access to Cardboard Boxes
If you are a cat owner, you’ve probably suspected this for a long time, but now we know that it’s official: cardboard boxes help alleviate cats’ stress. Researchers from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands conducted the study on shelter cats to see if access to cardboard boxes genuinely helped lower their stress levels...
Gorilla That Was Born With A Lack Of Pigmentation On Her Fingers Is Surprising People
Intellectually, we know how closely related we are to the great apes, at least genetically. It’s another thing for the evidence to be clearly presented to us by nature, though. A gorilla named Anaka has strange pigmentation on one hand that is a truly eye-opening genetic glitch. Anaka is 6 years old and lives at...
Fisherman Catches a Battle Between an Octopus and a Bald Eagle on Camera
Sometimes it’s annoying that people are walking around all the time with cameras at the ready. It means you could get caught with no makeup and dirty hair in the back of someone’s Instagram pic at Starbucks, and it means you’ve got to accept that what you say could pretty much always be recorded. But,...
Meet the Mexican Spider with Flesh-Eating Venom
Despite the fact that the perform a very necessary and friendly service, spiders aren’t exactly beloved by the masses. They eat bugs we don’t like – especially mosquitoes, things that sting, and destructive little turds that eat up our gardens – but for some people, even knowing this can’t negate their screeching reaction to anything...
A Dog Owner Died of Sepsis After His Dog Licked Him
I don’t know about you, but I routinely let most dogs I encounter lick me as much as they want. Now, after learning about this story, I can say that maybe I need to back off a little bit… A 63-year-old man in Germany began to feel ill and ultimately died – and the culprit...
Police Horse Refuses to Get up for Work Unless He Gets His Morning Tea
I guess you could say that we’re all a little finicky, especially when it comes to mornings. Some of us just aren’t morning people. Well, neither is Jake. No, Jake is not a grumpy middle-aged man; he’s a police horse, and he’s very particular about how he needs his morning to go in order to...