Bored and lonely dogs, cats and goldfish. What’s the ethics of keeping pets?

May 10, 2016

https://jessicapierce.net/ A new book by ethicist Jessica Pierce, released over the weekend, explores the morally ambiguous problem of keeping pets. In a Sunday op-ed…

Evacuees fleeing Fort McMurray fires allowed to bring their pets on Air Canada, WestJet, Canadian North flights

May 9, 2016

Kudos to the airlines who service Fort McMurray which has been under siege after wildfires forced tens of thousands of people to flee their…

Quebec Aquarium walrus has first Canadian baby born in captivity

May 9, 2016

It’s a walrus! The Aquarium of Quebec announced Sunday via Facebook that it’s walrus Araliaq has given birth. It’s a rare event as this…

Duck takes ducklings on stroll through Michigan school

May 3, 2016

For 13 years, Vanessa has been attending Village Elementary School in Hartland, Michigan. A retired teacher, Ruth Darrah, has taken it upon herself to…

Vaila's cubs. Metro Richmond Zoo/Facebook

Cute alert: Virginia zoo boasts births of 13 cheetah cubs

May 2, 2016

Talk about a baby boom. The Metro Richmond Zoo is watching over 13 cheetah cubs born to three cheetah mothers within a few weeks of…

Hummingbird and Rex the dog become BFFs

May 1, 2016

Rex the dog rescued a bird from the bottom of a tree near Whittier, California. Rex’s owner Ed Gernon nursed the bird back to…

Kenya burns world’s largest haul of ivory sending graphic message to poachers

April 30, 2016

The numbers are stark. So are the images. Some 8,000 elephants killed by poachers to create this, a stockpile of 105 tonnes of ivory,…

Adorable future canine cops now have jazzy new names

April 30, 2016

Meet the J-crew. Thirteen puppies born at the RCMP Police Dog Service Training Centre in Innisfail, Alberta now have handles – and all start with…

Trio of dogs protect 9-year-old girl lost overnight in northern Alberta

April 29, 2016

For more than 12 hours, and as temperatures dipped to freezing, a 9-year-old girl had only her three pet dogs to protect her as…

Call the police! It’s a car stuffed full of dogs

April 29, 2016

Turns out it’s a happy story. When police in Independence, Kansas got a call from Animal Control over a suspicious scene, they didn’t expect…