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For nearly 50 years, an eastern box turtle named Rockalina lived alone on a linoleum kitchen floor. When she was rescued last year by New Jersey turtle sanctuary Garden State Tortoise, she was wan, her eyes covered in dead skin, her claws unnaturally bent upward.
With Diane Keaton’s passing last week we remember her film career – Annie Hall, the Godfather movies, Reds – but let’s tip our caps to her other passion, “a lifetime of dedication to the cause of animal welfare,” as the Helen Woodward Animal Center writes in a tribute.
It took three and a half months of intense medical care and rehab, but a young fox rescued in northeast London in May has been set free at last. The fox had fallen into a container of bitumen – called “asphalt” on this side of the pond – in an ordeal the South Essex Wildlife Hospital said was “one of the most horrific cases we've seen in 35+ years of wildlife rescue.”
Flooding in central Texas this week has killed at least 80 people with many still missing, and the rain has not yet let up. The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch alert through at least Monday evening.
After months of rehabilitation, 17 sea turtles were released this week into the waters off Cape Cod. The loggerhead, green, and Kemp’s ridley sea turtles – all victims of hypothermia and its attendant ailments – had been convalescing at the New England Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital in Quincy, MA.
A pair of brown bears – brothers previously stuck in a cage outside an Azerbaijan restaurant for years – have been rescued and shipped to an animal sanctuary on the Isle of Wight.
Recently the San Diego Humane Society took in the youngest black bear cub the group had ever rescued, an approximately 2-month-old cub that had arrived in April – weak, underweight, and alone.
In November 2023, a couple took their pet mini dachshund Valerie on holiday to Kangaroo Island, about eight miles off the coast of Adelaide, Australia. While the dog’s owners, Georgia Gardner and Josh Fishlock, went fishing, Valerie escaped from her pen and disappeared into the bush.
A family in Omaha, Nebraska made the mistake of leaving an entire tuxedo chocolate mousse cake on their back porch. An opossum found it and that was the end of the cake, and almost the end of the opossum.
It’s that time of year again. This weekend animal shelters and zoos around the world are fundraising by encouraging people to perform symbolic acts of vengeance against their exes. The “anti-love” campaigns can take many forms.
As fires rage in southern California, hundreds of animals – dogs, cats, horses, pigs, parrots, the works – are in desperate need of food and shelter. Local shelters are stretched thin to take in animals as the wildfires have forced human residents to flee to safety.
The miniature donkey called Perry – short for Pericles – died last week in Palo Alto at the age of 30. Perry’s claim to fame was as the model for the gabby character “Donkey” in the movie Shrek.
When Hurricane Helene blew through Burnsville, North Carolina last month, flooding forced evacuations as the Cane River swelled to 20 feet above normal. One family watched in horror as their beloved cat, Ricardo Blanco, was swept away in the waters.
Do three emus constitute a mob? That’s how many were rescued on a busy roadway in Selden, New York a few weeks ago. The Strong Island Animal Rescue said in a Facebook post that they were alerted to a baby emu loose on Middle County Road, but when arrived on the scene they found not one but three juvenile emus, running around and “in danger of getting hit by cars.”
Animal-rescue organizations, big and small, are working overtime in the Southeast as hurricanes disrupt the lives of both humans and their pets. The damage wrought by Hurricane Helene, which tore through inland areas not usually susceptible to big-storm paths, is still being assessed while stranded animals await rescue.
Flash floods in northern Thailand forced more than 100 elephants to evacuate to higher ground, while at least two animals were swept away presumed lost. Dramatic videos and photos released by Elephant Nature Park near Chiang Mai showed panic-stricken elephants wading through flood waters as their human handlers struggled to lead them to safety.
A beaver in Massachusetts has been granted a stay – at a comfy animal shelter – by Governor Maura Healy, who intervened when a court was about to decide whether to exile the little mammal to the wild. The 2-year-old “Nibi” has been in the care of the Newhouse Wildlife Rescue in Chelmsford since it was just a few days old, when it was found alone by a roadside.
This week a pair of beluga whales were rescued from an aquarium, the NEMO Dolphinarium, in war-ravaged Kharkiv, Ukraine. Marine mammal specialists from Oceanogràfic de Valencia, Georgia Aquarium, and SeaWorld pulled off the rescue that took weeks to plan.
This week PBS aired a new documentary on heroes of Ukraine, human and animal. “Saving the Animals of Ukraine” documents wartime life and death for animals – in war-torn households, in zoos, in the wild – and the people who save them.
Torrential rains and intense floods soaked southern Brazil last week, killing over 140 people and forcing more than 100,000 to evacuate. Amid the disaster in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, hundreds of volunteers are busy rescuing animals stranded by the rising water.
