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The animal kingdom is truly an incredible one. While we assume that animals are of lesser intelligence and are only focused on their own kind’s survival, this simply isn’t true. We often hear stories about interspecies friendships. A dog who befriends a cat. Or even a dog and a cow who’ve become friends. They usually tell the story of one of the animals who went out of their way to comfo

Recently, a Wildlife Hospital in the U.K. had an especially flamboyant-looking ‘patient’. Some good people saw the poor bright orange bird on the side of the road that was unable to fly. The kind people were worried about the orange, tropical-looking bird’s wellbeing so they took it to the Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital to make sure it was okay. Turns out, the bird was neither tropical nor e

Some basic skills of an office employee include the ability to organize office supplies, answer phones, and work a computer – office kittens Debit and Credit have all of those skills – almost. ‘Hired’ by the finance/IT department of a transportation company in Ohio, the rescue kittens were employed not for their natural ability to play with boxes but to boost office morale. The adorable

When Stephy Hirst of Melbourne, Australia, picked up her new kitten Omar, he was the same size as the rest of his siblings. Little did she know, however, that he would soon become a top contender for the Guinness World Record title of World’s Longest Cat. “We were expecting a 9 kilo [19 pound] cat,” Hirst told the Maroondah Leader (via Global News). “He got to that [length] befo

You may or may not know Azuki: the Insta-famous, Japanese pygmy hedgehog. If you don’t, allow us to introduce you. Azuki is a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. He likes apples, massages, and hot baths, and up until recently, led a cozy life indoors with his human. All of the naps on soft blankets, the daily photoshoots, or time spent with his sister Uni (@uni_desu) just weren’t the same any more. Ev

Unfortunately, dogs who are residing in shelters and struggling with disabilities do not always get chosen to live in a forever home. Many adopters are looking for younger dogs without medical issues. As a result, disabled dogs are usually passed over. Lunita the dog thought she had found a loving family that was willing to take care of her. One day, all of that changed. She was left on the s

We are all familiar with the challenges shelter animals face when finding a forever home. For some of them, the wait is unbearably long while others never get to share their life with a loving family. And even though it breaks our hearts, we can witness heroic and in many cases, very creative attempts to help abandoned animals get noticed and eventually adopted. Not all heroes wear capes, some

There’s been much speculation about how Jon Stewart will spend his retirement. So far he’s been using a lot of his free time to basically do what he did for 16 years as host of The Daily Show: spit truth. But over the course of the next year, he and his family will be taking on some new responsibilities: raising rescued farm animals on their 12-acre property in Middletown, New Jersey. That’s