Yellowstone National Park is home to an amazing array of wildlife, including wolves. To better understand these creatures, and observe their behavior without human interference, researchers have placed wildlife cameras throughout the park. Recently, one of these cameras captured one wolf mother’s adorable behavior.
PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) is an unfortunate reality for many veterans returning home from war. Many veterans do not get treatment for what they’ve endured and eventually succumb to its debilitating effects. The Lockwood Animal Rescue Center (LARC) is on a mission to change all that. They offer an alternative treatment for PTSD that gets these…
Dreamcatchers for Abused Children is a non-profit organization devoted to reform of abused children. According to their website, their main goal is to “educate the public on all aspects of child abuse such as symptoms, intervention, prevention, statistics, reporting, and helping victims locate the proper resources necessary to achieve a full recovery.” Recently, the organization shared…
Daily walks with your dogs are good for your health, for the dog’s health, and for your relationship as a human-canine duo. Those walks are primarily meant for something else though — letting your dogs empty their bladder. But biologically speaking, there is more to dog urination than just relieving a full digestive system. What’s…
Here am I, ever wondering when humans will end their cruelty. I mean, how doesn’t one even start imagining hurting an innocent creature? A poor dog?! If you think I’m overreacting, it’s probably because you haven’t seen what such heartless people are capable of. Just see what someone did to this poor dog. From what…
With a brown satchel slung over his shoulder and eyes scanning the ground, Joe Butera walked down a logging road in a remote section of the northern Adirondacks. He was looking for canid tracks and scat, like he’d seen this past winter and spring. “This is where I found three individual scats that were huge,”…
By combining two pre-taxidermied wolves into one, artist Nicholas Galanin has created a startling piece. Called Inert Wolf, it was made for a traveling group exhibition that deals with humanity’s impact on the environment. “The inability to progress or move forward was the basic concept,” he tells us. It was created so that we could focus…