Gus is a six-year-old dog with plenty of his own problems. The goldendoodle has cancer, and doctors had to amputate one of his back legs to remove a tumor. But these challenges didn’t stop him from jumping into a frigid Minnesota river to rescue a baby river otter Easter Sunday. “First time swimming with three […]
By Elizabeth L. Bennett In recent years Asia’s otters have been subject to intense poaching, primarily for their pelts. Markets in East Asia greatly value their smooth, dense, water-adapted fur. At same time the poaching of live otters for sale in the pet trade has become an emerging crisis. Even in Japan’s famous cat cafés, […]
By Joe McCarthy It’s safe to say that lobsters aren’t a budding new demographic for soda companies. So why did a lobster recently caught in the waters off Grand Manan, New Brunswick, have part of a Pepsi logo tattooed on its claw? That’s a question that baffled Karissa Lindstrand, the fisherman who spotted the uncanny […]