Baby Elephant Tries to Keep Up with Family

I know this is not a dog video but I can't resist it's so cute. It is in Tarangire National Park in Tanzania a family of elephants is seen crossing the road. First, a grown elephant crosses the road, followed by a medium sized one. Then, scampering from behind in the bushes, a tiny, adorable baby elephant runs through the brush to catch up with mum. I wish I can have that baby elephant as a pet.

Two Cute Pugs Birthday

I had fun watching these two cute pugs eating their birthday cake. Adorable.

Hope, the dog found brutally tortured have a new home

Hope, the dog found brutally tortured in Texas last week, has a new home. According to the Parker County Sheriff's Office, the pug mix has been adopted by the family whose ranch she was first spotted wandering on.

Charlie and Kit Moncrief have agreed to adopt Hope, who continues to recover from what the Dallas Morning News described as "one of the worst cases of animal cruelty ever reported in the county." Hope was found dehydrated, her mouth sealed shut with electrical tape and her tongue protruding. She had five large cuts that took more than 100 stitches to close.

"I have known the Moncrief family for many, many years," Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said in an emailed statement to Yahoo News. "I can't think of a better family for Hope to belong to. She will think she is in heaven at her new home with her new family."

Veterinarians at Bowie Drive Animal Hospital say that Hope, who is estimated to be between 3 and 4 years old, will make a full recovery, though she may need part of her tongue removed.

Hope's story garnered worldwide media attention and more than $35,000 offered for information leading to an arrest in the case.

Fowler said they have investigated several leads but are still seeking the suspect or suspects involved.

"This is the bottom line," Fowler added. "If they will torture a defenseless creature, what else are they capable of? We need to find the person(s) responsible for this."

Only evil can do a thing like this to a defenseless creature. Some humans really don't deserve to live. 

source yahoo news

German Shepherd Confused by Talking Husky

This is too, funny. The German Shepherd looks confused while watching the talking Husky dog. The GS is named Noushka. Noushka is a rescue dog from Lebanon.

Pet Detectives Looking for Lost Beagle in L.A.

I found this interesting news about Pet detectives, I didn't know they really exist. I thought Pet detectives are real only in movies. You can read the news below.

Pet detectives are hunting in North Hollywood, Calif., for 45-pound brown and white Beagle named Gadget. The 4-year-old dog went missing last Thursday, and his owners are now offering a $2,500 reward for the return of their four-legged friend.

Ryan and Amanda Kelley said that four days ago they were in New York for a friend’s wedding when they received a call that Gadget had escaped their friend’s Los Angeles house.

“Our friend started chasing him, almost two blocks north, and then Gadget started heading east from there,” Ryan said.
Devastated by the news, the Kelley’s decided to skip the wedding and fly back to Los Angeles the next morning, then contacting pet detectives to search for Gadget.

Annalisa Berns, a pet detective for Southern California’s Pet Search and Rescue, immediately decided there was enough information to begin a search for Gadget.
“When a client contacts us, first and foremost we get as much information as we can to make sure it’s something we can help with,” said Berns. “So from there I started to call around to the pet detectives I work with, and found all three of us were available.”

Saturday morning, two of the pet detectives along with two search dogs began to look for Gadget.  The hound dogs rotated every four hours and were able to pick up on Gadget’s scent, but the trail was lost at big intersections. The Kelley’s have only received one phone call on a possible sighting of Gadget, but still lack major leads.

“The emotions are all over right now, it’s really hard to handle,” said Ryan Kelley. “Right now it’s literally one moment we’ll be feeling hopeful and one moment we’re dreading the worst. It’s exhausting.”

However, Berns said owners of lost dogs should never give up hope.
“The most important thing is to be persistent and thorough,” said Berns. “There is a very high success rate for lost pets especially up to two weeks they’ve gone missing, even up to months after they’ve gone missing.”

While pet detectives can cost up to thousands of dollars depending on how far they are traveling, Kelley says he’s received an overwhelming amount of free help from the community.

“We’ve had easily 30 to 40 volunteers just here physically looking and making posters and calling shelters,” said Kelley. “We’ve also had about 10 to 20 people other places in other states giving advice.”

Berns says to avoid the heartache an owner should buy a GPS locator for their pet.

Meanwhile, the search for Gadget, who was once used in lab tests in Spain, continues.

“Knowing that he has had the past he’s had and watching him develop from a sheltered, scared animal into a dog, something with emotions, it’s been great seeing him learn that,” said Ryan.

From ABC news

Dog Stayed beside his Dead Dog friend

Here is a picture of a male pit bull that looks sad. It refused to leave the female pit bull that lay dead on the side of a road. Truly a heartbreaking photo circulating Facebook.

The female pit bull appeared to have been hit by a car and the male pit bull stayed by her side.

"The male pit bull wouldn't leave her, so a nearby business set out food and water," Fox 10 reported. "He stayed with her nuzzling her and lying nearby until the city came to remove her Saturday morning."

The dogs did not have owner tags when they were found.

"We picked up this other dog and took him to our East Valley shelter," Rodrigo Silva, an animal control official, told the station. "Right now it doesn't look like he has any behavioral or health problems."

"a little withdrawn and appears to be very sad."

"If he continues to show these signs of withdrawal we will place him in a recovery home that can help him with his grieving,"

"I am so pissed about this," Karyn Aspan, who saw the photo on Facebook, wrote on her wall. "Animal control responded 14.5 hours later."

source, yahoo news.

Blind Dog Gets New Life with Canine Pal

Tanner suffered from seizures until Blair entered his life. Amazing story