This Animal Shelter Closes, Emptied from Day After Day of Instant Adoptions: ‘It’s Been Nonstop’

This Animal Shelter Closes, Emptied from Day After Day of Instant Adoptions: ‘It’s Been Nonstop’

Two already-adopted cats at Bide Awhile – credit, Bide Awhile Animal Shelter, via Facebook It’s always a bit of a struggle to walk through an animal shelter, past all those pairs of eyes watching you from behind bars, knowing you can’t take more than a couple home with you. At Bide Awhile Animal Shelter in … Read more

A Surgeon Saved His Life as a Teenage Immigrant. Now They Operate Together for Charity in Ethiopia

A Surgeon Saved His Life as a Teenage Immigrant. Now They Operate Together for Charity in Ethiopia

Mesfin and Kauten reunite – credit Allen Dollar Each of these men had to walk a long hard road, paved with blood, sweat, and tears, to arrive at this moment, embracing each other as both patient-physician and colleague-colleague. From his birth in a powerless, waterless village in Ethiopia 41 years ago, Mesfin Yana has often … Read more

Polar Bear Adopts a Cub That Isn’t her Own – Extraordinary Behavior Caught on Camera

Polar Bear Adopts a Cub That Isn’t her Own – Extraordinary Behavior Caught on Camera

Polar bear with adopted cub – Credit: Dave Sandford / Discover Churchill / Polar Bears International A wild female polar bear was recently filmed with a cub that’s not her own: a notably rare behavior that’s been determined to be an adoption. It was filmed during the annual polar bear migration along Canada’s Western Hudson … Read more