animals

Circulating message warns that grapes and raisins are toxic to dogs and cats.

Photographs circulating via email and social media show a large alligator with a full-grown deer in its mouth.

Circulating message that features a photograph depicting a lion, a tiger and a bear together claims that the animals were rescued from a drug dealer’s property early in their lives and have lived together in an animal sanctuary ever since.

I discuss the old myth that elephants are terrified of tiny mice. Is there any substance to the story?

Image: Martin Le-May A rather compelling image, which depicts a weasel perched on the back of a flying woodpecker, has the interwebs…

Circulating social media message claims that mysterious white lumps of palm oil being washed up on southern UK beaches can be deadly to dogs.

According to various messages that circulate almost continually on Facebook, the network is now deleting pet profiles and animal rescue groups.

Circulating message that features a photograph depicting pigs confined to very small cages claims that the photograph was taken on an American factory farm and that the pigs are kept in the tight cages so that they will fatten up more quickly because their movement is restricted.

Message claims that attached images depict Bighorn Sheep climbing on a very steep dam wall.