animals

Tigers are interesting critters: Siegfried and Roy demonstrated that they can never truly be tamed. The other thing about them is that they can jump really, really high. Both points make the decision to have the Jiangxi Elite Children Arts Troupe stage a tightrope walk over a Siberian tiger...

There are those who like animals, and there are those who love animals.  And then there’s 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, who may in fact be the greatest admirer of animals in history. Either that or he’s just a blithering, drunken idiot. According to police, several people witnessed Mr. Wolfe kneeling...

Something tells me that what happened to Kashka, a much loved giraffe from the Albuquerque Zoo, isn’t exactly proper protocol for animal disposal. Seems Kashka suffered a devastating and debilitating leg injury last week and had to be put down.  As is routine protocol, Kashka’s body was dismembered. What...

Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom: A herbal remedy saved a bull with a slack libido from a trip to the abattoir. Three weeks ago, Boris the bull had an appointment with the slaughterhouse. Unable or unwilling to sire any calves, he served no useful purpose. However, owner David Joyce...

Berlin, Germany: The German chapter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has asked for celebrity polar bear Knut to be castrated because he and a female companion share the same grandfather. According to PETA’s zoo expert, Frank Albrecht, any offspring that Knut and his cousin Giovanna...

A Slovenian man was attacked and killed by three dogs that he had spared from being destroyed. A police spokeswoman put it simply: Three dogs bit their 52-year-old owner to death in Ljubljana yesterday. Four years earlier the three bull-mastiffs attacked a passer-by, resulting in serious injuries for the...

The Alaskan owner of a 1958 Piper Super Cub that looked a lot like the one shown above made a terrible mistake. Depending on which unqualified version of events you choose to believe, he either left the plane at a remote fishing spot with a container of bait inside,...

Unfortunately that headline doesn’t really do this story justice.  Killing an injured deer with a stick is only half the story here. Joel “Country” Borden, of Clarksville, Georgia, says he knew exactly what to do when a deer wandered onto his property, suffering from a gunshot wound to the...

A man was sentenced to 12 years in prison after a Chinese court found that he had killed and eaten an extremely rare tiger. Reuters reports that villager Kang Wannian, claimed that he encountered what was possible China’s last wild Indochinese tiger by while he was collecting freshwater clams...