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Critter Crimes

California man convicted of animal cruelty after capturing hawk and feeding it alcohol

Critter Love

Confused and disoriented raccoon covered in ice found wandering in field

Celebrity Critters

Stanley the cat makes appearance in official portrait of former prime minister Stephen Harper

Critters vs Humans vs Critters

Speeder blames zippy elk for going 160 km/h on B.C. highway

Uncategorized

Sheep on the lam in supermarket break-in

Bear #122 is quickly becoming Banff’s most famous bear

November 26, 2013

Bear #122 is treating the crown jewel in Canada’s national park system as a personal buffet. The dominant male grizzly in Banff National Park…

#18 is my fave: 20 reasons you absolutely need a dog

November 26, 2013

Distractify has an amazing post up on the 20 reasons why you absolutely need a dog in your life. So many reasons. So many…

Red List endangered list adds the Okapi

November 25, 2013

The Okapi’s decline has exceeded 50 per cent over three generations, which for the blue-tongued forest giraffe, is a mere 24 years. The Okap…

Bear beaten to death with rock

November 25, 2013

A 41-year-old man who he hit a bear with his car and then beat the animal to death with a rock is now facing…

Puppy looks like Hitler

November 25, 2013

Remember the house in Wales that looked like Hitler? And there’s even a whole site devoted to cats who look like the evil man….

Pitbull stabbed by pug owner

November 24, 2013

This was a pretty horrific story: two dogs, two owners, and a deadly encounter at Vancouver’s Kits Beach. The pug was off-leash and came…

A pug for all the wrong reasons

November 24, 2013

Mr. Darcy, as he is called by owner Julia Ashton, has a designer wardrobe and at Christmas will get his own hand-knitted sweater. Not…

Hey humans: quit hugging shark

November 24, 2013

In another reason to note that humans sometimes–often–do silly (ok, stupid) things with critters, here is the latest trend according to Slate: shark hugs….

Moose-eating shark: a very Canadian critters story

November 23, 2013

You take a moose, a partially blind shark and some heroic actions from Newfoundlanders and what you end up is the kind of critter…

Venomous spider destroys woman’s ear

November 18, 2013

Can’t look. Can’t look. But can’t look away. A spider bite actually liquefied part of a woman’s ear. The 22-year-old woman from the Netherlands…