Critters vs Humans vs Critters

Here’s why owls are dying around illegal marijuana farms in California

January 17, 2018

The anticoagulant rodenticide, a poison aimed at, you guessed it, rats, has long been documented to have negative effects on other wildlife which get…

What do poor people need? According to Pope Francis, it’s a trip to the circus

January 16, 2018

Animal rights activists say Pope Francis’ way of giving to the poor, by taking them to a day at the circus, is the wrong…

In Switzerland, no more boiling live lobsters and no shipping them in ice

January 12, 2018

Animal welfare advocates have been pushing for decades to get the Swiss government to ban the culinary practice of throwing live lobsters into boiling….

Man arrested over spate of cat killings in Northampton, UK

January 10, 2018

Last week, we wrote about the so-called Croydon cat killer, also dubbed the MI-5 killer who is believed to have been responsible for as many…

Do animals commit suicide? Disturbing anecdotes and now empirical evidence support it as real thing

January 9, 2018

Psychology Today has just published a piece about evidence which could answer a disturbing question: do animals have the ability to rationalize their situation…

Meatless Monday: Korean dish of squirming octopus raises ire of activists, defended by others

January 8, 2018

In February, when PETA sent an observer into Toronto restaurants, it wasn’t to get them to dine out but to investigate how live animal…

A very Canadian rescue: Snowmobile riders dig out moose buried neck-deep in snow

January 4, 2018

It’s been a snowy season so far in Deer Lake, Newfoundland and for a group of riders the powdery terrain was the perfect spot…

Declassified documents show Margaret Thatcher refused to share her plane with a panda

January 2, 2018

The Iron Lady of Britain had a thing about pandas, apparently. She didn’t like them. She didn’t trust the ursines either. Newly-released government documents…

Squirrel caught on body cam video as it lunges at police during B&E in New York

January 1, 2018

Body cameras capture all kinds of bad guys in action. At the Brockport Police Department in New York, a particularly harried perpetrator was caught…

Bitten by a shark, but now watch a baby sea otter getting ready to return to the ocean

December 31, 2017

Sea Otter 808 has been through a lot. The pup was attacked by a shark. Then, he was found alone and injured on a…