We must stop cutting down trees! This is getting very serious……

Photo by Linda R Drage

Caboodle Ranch is a 30 acre non-profit cat rescue society,  founded by a single individual who cared enough to make a difference.

Caboodle Ranch

Rough play — the deer can box!

J. Clyde Hooker Jr. 
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Breakdance by © Jernej Lasic

A cat named Oscar that had its back feet severed by a combine harvester, has been given two prosthetics in a pioneering operation.

The new feet are custom-made implants that “peg” the ankle to the foot.

They are bioengineered to mimic the way deer antler bone grows through the skin.

The operation – a world first – was carried out by Noel Fitzpatrick, a veterinary surgeon based in Surrey, UK.

His work is explored in a BBC documentary called The Bionic Vet.

Note the color of the cat’s tail matches the dog’s coat.

Photographer unknown.

I was walking around the neighborhood on Halloween looking at all of the decorations, when I heard a kitten crying. I followed the meowing and there was this terrified, beautiful yellow-white kitten hiding on the wheel well of a car! I chased it to the back yard of a neighbor but couldn’t catch it. The neighbor was nice enough to trap the kitten and called me when he had her in a cage. She had been abandoned so we took her home & named her Bianca. After a couple of months I noticed that “she” may be a “he”. After a visit to the vet, we confirmed that “she” was a boy! We re-named her Benito. He is such a blessing. He has taken over the house and gives all of my other 3 rescue cats a run for their money. Life wouldn’t be the same without Beni!

Link: The Animal Rescue Site

A giant farm dog and a tiny piglet cuddle up as if they were family after the baby runt was dismissed by its own mother. Surrogate mum Katjinga, an eight-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback, took on motherly duties for grunter Paulinchen – a tiny pot-bellied pig – and seems to be taking the adoption in her stride. Lonely Paulinchen was luckily discovered moments from death and placed in the care of the dog who gladly accepted it as one of her own. Thankfully for the two-week old mini porker, Katjinga fell in love with her at first sight and adopted her.

The weak and struggling piglet was rescued after she was abandoned by the rest of her family one evening after she was born. He said: “The pigs run wild on our land and the sow had given birth to a litter of five in our forest. I found Paulinchen all alone and when I lifted her up she was really cold

I felt sure some local foxes would have taken the little pig that very night so I took it into my house and gave her to Katjinga. “She had just finished with a litter of her own, who are now 10 months, so I thought there was a chance she might take on the duties of looking after her. “Katjinga is the best mother you can imagine. She immediately fell in love with the piggy. Straight away she started to clean it like it was one of her own puppies. Days later she started lactating again and giving milk for the piggy. She obviously regards it now as her own baby.”

via David Wilson

Strange!

via James Abrams

Star and Petunia, sleeping bulldogs that snore.

I wouldn’t get any sleep with this snoring nearby.

via Brenda Sexton

via Gael Marshall Chaney

via Brenda Sexton

via Bobbie Hanby

via Mary Rives Brown