Last August, Blossom the goose lost her mate, Bud. They’d lived on a pond at Riverside Cemetery in Marshalltown, Iowa. Blossom’s grief was evident to the cemetery’s staff, and so general manager Dorie Tammen decided to post a personal ad for Blossom. Correspondent Steve Hartman reports on the results of an avian blind date.
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—Falling for these grifters is easy. The editor himself, an experienced a/r activist, has been fooled on several occasions. The matter is complicated because—thankfully—there are also many legitimate groups rescuing animals in distress all over the world. This problem is typical of a world in disorder, where many urgent social priorities (ecoanimal tasks, eradication of poverty and economic insecurity, eradication of animal exploitation and cruelty, universalisation of healthcare for all sentient creatures, human and non-human, etc.) are still very much impossible since our species remains in the grip of human-made plagues: endless wars for profit, mass ignorance, lowering or negation of compassionate standards due to extensive social hardships, and so on.
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In the Carpathian mountains, two abandoned bear cubs get adopted by an unusual mother. The orphaned bear cubs would’ve been destined to starve if a man had not adopted them. This heartwarming documentary shows the twin’s life with their new “mother”, from their first steps to becoming cheeky teenagers.
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The camera captures a mother bear as she struggles to get her four cubs across a busy road. This simple but highly inspiring event occurred on March 27, 2021, in Winsted, Connecticut, USA. It is notable that the usually impatient drivers sat quietly in a long line, without creating a possibly disruptive tumult that could have distracted the mother bear.
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I have always had dogs and cats and love them equally, so I went to the local Animal Shelter and told the receptionist I wanted to meet the oldest cat they had, or the one hardest to adopt out.. They took me to meet a slender long-legged tuxedo cat who had been surrendered several months before.. her card said she was 15, declawed, spayed, her name was Spooky, and they didn’t want her anymore. I changed her name to Schatzi (German for Treasure or Darling) because she is a Diva!
