Animals

Brian May of Queen participated in a debate about fox hunting this week on BBC2 television's "Newsnight." He expressed his disgust at the underhanded attempt by the British government to bring back fox hunting.

Many cats and kittens are available for adoption at Lapeer County Animal Control. The adoption fees have been waived for any cats that are over a year old. If they are not altered, the $50 refundable spay/neuter deposit is required for adoption.

Here’s a heartwarming random act of kindness from the animal world. Watch a tortoise come to the rescue of another tortoise when he finds him upside down on his back, hopelessly unable to right himself. It took many tries but he persevered in getting his buddy turned over.

One ton of confiscated illegal elephant ivory was crushed last Friday in New York ’s Times Square by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. “Behind every piece of ivory is a dead elephant” explains Leigh Henry of the World Wildlife Fund. Ninety six elephants are killed for their tusks every day in Africa . #Ivory Crush won’t stop poaching or put a dent in the global ivory market but was designed rather

This is the most heartwarming video you’ll see today. Watch Samson, a trained service dog, alerting to his owner’s self-harming and depressive episode. Danielle Jacobs posted the video on YouTube saying “this is what having aspergers is like."

Only six inches high, six inches long and weighing less than a pound at birth, this tiny deer will brighten your hump day. The southern pudu fawn, the world’s smallest deer species, was born a month ago at the Queens Zoo in New York. His white spots will fade as he grows up although growing up won’t be much of a vertical process.

A video of kids having a pajama party has gone viral. Nigerian Dwarf goat kids, that is. When freezing rain hit the Sunflower Farm Creamery in Cumberland, Maine, owner Hope Hall told the Portland Press Herald “I thought oh my gosh they’re the perfect size and it’s really chilly out and I bet they would appreciate some warmth.”

Watch the antics of five warthog piglets born at the Detroit Zoo last month. Daenerys, Sansa, Cerseit, Tyrion and Hodor were given names from ‘Game of Thrones.’ Hodor, the smallest of the quintuplets, is being cared for separately until he gains enough weight to join his siblings.

Here's a dramatic scene from South Africa that'll brighten your hump day. An elephant calf either collapsed or laid down in a busy roadway and her family surrounds her, coaxes her to her feet and leads her to safety.

The Preakness Stakes, a race that sometimes claims the lives of the animals who compete in it, will bring eight horses to Pimlico Race Course today. Barbaro won the 2006 Kentucky Derby but shattered his leg two weeks later in the Preakness Stakes which ended his racing career and eventually lead to his death.

What is it like to look at the very last of something? In observance of Endangered Species Day today, watch this video of Sudan, the last male Northern White Rhinoceros on the planet. Even though a unique wonder will soon vanish off the face of the earth, poachers would kill Sudan if they could and hack off his horn to sell it on the Asian medicine market.

After a filing deadline error led to no candidates appearing on the primary ballot, defense attorney Michael Ewing has entered his pig, Giggles, in the race. “It started because one of the city council members, who was convicted of murder, announced he was running for mayor. I am pretty forgiving, but it I am really strongly opposed to murder—and think electing a mayor who was convicted of murder