Nothin' But Mutts

09/08/2023

LOL

28/03/2023

That's a good mama!

An adorable Great Dane has become a supermom after birthing 21 pups over the course of 27 hours.

10/12/2022

Yesterday our boy found this beautiful rock, was hidden in big oak tree in El Lago, we are still so excited 🤩🤩🤩 Unfortunately I do not ha...

10/12/2022

👍❤️

10/12/2022

Family is forever!
~ lis

24/09/2022

So so sweet. 💛

Dogs are family ❤

20/09/2022

Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love, they depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

04/08/2022

The owner dumped him when it got too big. 😡
Fortunately the police helped this sweet dog Henry.

Henry the Golden Retriever was walking alone in obvious distress. Police officers discovered him and were stunned—not only was Henry homeless and in need of immediate care, but he also had a tumor that nearly doubled his weight. For a tumor to gain 46 pounds indicated that Henry had been neglected...

14/06/2022

Puppehs saving da world

My workday has been cut short, so let’s cut right to the best moment I could possibly give you.

Today’s Moment of Science… Cheetahs and their emotional support doggos.

Cheetahs are swift spotted big cats that can reliably run at about 60mph, making them the fastest land animals on Earth. They’re lightweight with small heads, long legs, and a flexible spine, putting almost anything that they want for dinner within their price range.

But like any animal, it doesn’t start off that way. The cubs are adorable, floofy, and most importantly, er, unfortunately? Snack sized.

Cheetah cubs don’t have a great track record of living, you see.

They’re born entirely helpless, blind and typically weighing less than a pound. Though they gain their strength with the haste you’d expect for a tiny critter trying to outrun a goddamn hyena, only 5% of cubs are expected to make it to adulthood. An outsized percentage die in the first three months. Contributing factors include habitat loss, poaching, and predation from other animals.

Cheetahs are classified as vulnerable now which is just a step less ‘yikes’ for their survival than endangered. Breeding programs and rescues have been set up for decades. Naturally nervous critters, possibly from millions of years of thinking death is always around the corner, cubs learn social skills and the art of chilling the f**k out from their litter-mates in the wild. Cubs raised in zoos or rescues don’t always have a companion for a variety of reasons. This doesn’t help these anxiety riddled kitties learn to make friends- and hopefully new big cats- when they grow up.

Dr. Laurie Marker figured “dunno, maybe give them a puppy?”
Punchline: it goddamn worked.

Marker has worked largely with rehabilitating cheetahs to reintroduce them to the wild. In 1976 in Winston, Oregon, she was working on the cheetah breeding program at Wildlife Safari. When she found herself working with one lonesome, anxious cub named Khayam, she decided to give the cub a lab-mix friend named Shesho. It worked; the two bonded, Khayam relaxed as though cheetah siblings were present, and Dr. Marker wondered if she was onto something.

So she tried it again. And again.

Now the go-to prescription for an anxious cheetah cub is an emotional support dog.

This has been your Moment of Science, planning to wear cheetah print next time I fly with my dog.

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20/05/2022

Brave Eva.

SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. (KRCR) — Erin Wilson's dog, Eva, saved her life from a mountain lion near White Bar, Calif. She said Eva dog could be coming home from the veterinary hospital on Thursday. "Her punctures are all healing well; all of them missed the brain," said Erin. "We are so fortunate....

05/05/2022

Sometimes we want to get angry, but that's not going to help the problem.

30/04/2022

That's his dog in the pic, not the dachshund he comforted.

The Perth crew member named Chad was praised around the world after footage of him speaking to one-year-old dachshund Cooper before he flew to Melbourne went viral.

22/04/2022

Good boy, Patron.

VLADIMIR PUTIN's plot to capture key cities in Ukraine is being hampered by fierce military resistance - including bomb-sniffing dogs.