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My daughter discovered Buddy yesterday unable to move and in apparent pain. An emergency trip to the vet this morning resulted in a diagnoses of saddle thrombus. Here is what Perplexity says about saddle thrombus... What this diagnosis means A clot in the vessels to the back legs (often called a saddle thrombus or aortic thromboembolism) suddenly cuts off blood flow, causing paralysis and very severe pain. Prognosis is generally described as guarded to poor, and many cats either do not survive or are euthanized because of pain, cost, and risk of recurrence. Options to discuss with the vet Hospital...

Public domain map showing area of the two bear attacks. On February 15, 2026, a Slovenian father and son used a handgun or handguns to defend against an attacking European brown bear, ursus arctos. From bernama.com:Environment state secretary Filip Kuffa said the father and son had been inspecting timber in a mountain forest with a hunting dog when the bear attacked unexpectedly.According to Mr Kuffa, the father fired several shots from his pistol in self-defence, but the bear knocked him to the ground and bit him repeatedly.His son then shot and killed the animal with a handgun.The incident has been...

Man’s best friend has once again proven its ability to detect someone in trouble and lead its human companion to the scene to summon life-saving help. Dan DiCandilo in Richmond, Virginia suburb of Ashland told WWBT how a dreary, bitterly cold morning just after sunrise turned into a life-saving rescue during his daily walk around the neighborhood with his dog, Gozier. “We walk five miles a day, every day, and we’ve been doing that for nine years,” said DiCandilo. “Gozier is the child we’ve never had.” He continued, “We were about halfway up Henry Clay, heading towards the tracks as...

Tomorrow night in Times Square in New York, Muslims will gather to pray the Ramadan tarawih prayer, and New Yorkers will do this.

VIDEOThe Florida Freeze this winter almost completely wiped out the iguanas in South Florida. The first week of the Big Freeze the nighttime temperatures fell below 40 degrees on most nights and dropped below freezing on at least a couple of nights. After that first week, temperatures rose again only to drop for a few more days killing many/most of the hardy iguanas that barely survived the first week. Although the temperature has risen into the 80s for over a week, I still have seen NO iguanas until today probably due to the fact that Lake PJ is well stocked...

Does anyone have a recollection of Tom Smith, the bear researcher, telling of a time when he and another were doing bear research and the companion shot a handgun but missed all the shots at the bear? I have a vague recollection, but cannot find a source. I thought it was in an interview by Tom Smith, maybe in a hunting or outdoor publication. If anyone remembers such a thing, please reply.

A female skier was mauled by a snow leopard after getting too close to try to take a photo, with a chilling video capturing her being led away with blood pouring from her face.The footage shows the victim lying prone in the snow wearing a purple ski suit after the animal mauled her on Friday evening in Fuyun County at the northern Chinese border with Mongolia.She is then seen being taken away from the scene with blood pouring from her face.

LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. (CBS12) — Eighty-eight German Shepherds are finally safe after federal agents raided a Texas breeding operation where dogs were reportedly killed. Big Dog Ranch Rescue said the January 9 rescue followed a tip on December 29 about extreme cruelty at Giant German Shepherd Ranch in Hopkins County, owned by Kristine Hicks. What authorities found was shocking: more than 100 dogs living in squalor, many in critical condition.

" . .In 1948, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game conducted a unique wildlife relocation project known as Operation Beaver Drop (also called "Operation High-Dive"). The goal was to humanely relocate 76 beavers from overpopulated areas near McCall and Payette Lake in northern Idaho to the remote Chamberlain Basin in central Idaho, where their dam-building could benefit the ecosystem. Traditional relocation methods—using trucks and mules—were stressful for the animals and resulted in high mortality. To solve this, Elmo W. Heter, a conservation officer, devised a plan to parachute beavers from airplanes using specially designed wooden boxes with parachutes made...

When the dog usually goes for a walk with the husband and stops at the pub for a beer, then one day the missus takes him for a walk 😭

This bizarre resident of the deep sea is certainly one of the most unique creatures we've ever seen. Imagine traveling through the darkest depths of the ocean around 2,000ft down where everything around you is pitch black. You shine your torch into the gloom and something catches your eye. As it gets closer, you realize that this is no ordinary fish - you can see straight through its head! Meet the barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma) - a creature so bizarre that if there weren't pictures and videos of it you could almost believe that it was something completely made up....

Orange County, CA – A heroic pup named Rambo finds himself in need of a new home after he was brutally stabbed while defending his family from a violent intruder. The 11-month-old shepherd/husky mix sustained wounds to his chest, neck, shoulders, and a paw while protecting his family from the criminal. Sadly, Rambo was rushed to a veterinarian for emergency care, but his family opted to NOT take him back home after he was treated, even though staff at Nuevo Road Animal Hospital offered to do his surgery free of charge. Today, the courageous pup is healing from his wounds...

My friend, the late Anna Rumaderun, was a young Indonesian woman totally dedicated to friendship with The West based on the bonds of history forged in World War Two. Like me she had huge respect for General Douglas MacArthur. She trusted traditional medicine and died from breast cancer. She was terrified of modern medicine because two of her friends died post mastectomy. She leaves behind a husband with movie star good looks and a six year old little boy named after me. Rest In Peace, Anna. We miss you deeply. We know you ARE WITH GOD.

A stray dog survived a 45-minute coyote attack earlier this month in Orange County, fending off at least five coyotes that circled it in a residential neighborhood. An incredible video posted on Nextdoor and shared with KTLA showed the dog fighting off the coyotes in the driveway of a home in Brea on May 6. The homeowner said it happened around 5:40 a.m. on Huntley Circle near the 57 freeway. The video shows several coyotes surrounding and attacking a young Labrador/German shepherd mix that was roaming the neighborhood without a collar. The homeowners were unaware of the battle unfolding on...

Breitbart News @BreitbartNews Female officer pursues a bird wandering near a highway -- and fails to capture it after a half-hour chase. 3:16 PM · May 22, 2025 ·

Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer President @realDonaldTrump ’s own Department of Defense just RENEWED a $10 million contract to shove marbles into cats’ rectums and electroshock them for constipation research. How are experiments like these STILL happening under the Trump administration and why are they being funded with US tax dollars? @elonmusk

Thanks to some thoughtful collaboration between researchers and traditional Inupiat whalers (who are still allowed to hunt for survival), scientists have used amino acids in the eyes of whales and harpoon fragments lodged in their carcasses to determine the age of these enormous animals—and they found at least three bowhead whales who were living prior to 1850. Granted those are bowheads, not sperm whales like the fictional Moby Dick, (and none of them are albino, I think), but still. Pretty amazing, huh? Bowhead whales reach an average length of 35 to 45 feet, and they are believed to live over...

Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer ATTN DOGE: NIH Renews Massive Funding for Fauci’s Infamously Cruel Monkey Island ⁦ @DrJBhattacharya really isn’t proving that he’s all he was hyped up to be as the new @NIH Director Why is NIH under the new Trump admin abusing monkeys, dogs & cats? From thegatewaypundit.com 5:50 PM · Apr 30, 2025

Rep. Shri Thanedar, who no one had heard of until now, filed seven articles of impeachment against President Trump. He claimed that the President had violated the Supreme Court’s order to return the Maryland dad, Abrego Garcia. We previously reported that Yale scholar Jed Rubenfeld explained that President Trump didn’t violate the Supreme Court order. Shri’s background seems too bizarre to be true. Laura Loomer is researching him and believes he filed the articles of impeachment to get himself out of his $800.000 campaign debt. EXCLUSIVE VIDEO:INDIAN SCAMMER DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN WHO FILED ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP GETS CONFRONTED...

An endangered Great White Heron has fully recovered from an emergency surgery after a fisherman pelted it with a rock at Bill Baggs State Park in Key Biscayne, Florida, in January. The rock broke the bird’s wing and reportedly caused the bird to bleed heavily. The man who threw the rock, Edgar Estuardo Valenzuela, was arrested after he admitted to the act of animal cruelty, which under Florida law typically carries a punishment of prison time or a hefty fine. However, when he was discovered to be an illegal alien from Guatemala, police were able to kill two birds with...