A 3-week-old stray kitten was found wandering the streets, looking for his mom but she was nowhere to be found. Chatons Orphelins Montréal He was brought to a shelter in Montréal, Canada but they didn’t have the resources to care for the young kitten. They reached out to Chatons Orphelins Montréal and asked if they
Month: October 2018
Charles Kellogg was a conservationist who became famous for his uncanny bird calls. Photo: Humboldt Redwoods Interpretive Association Charles Kellogg could sing like a bird. Like a chorus of birds, like a maple filled with warblers, like a dawn chorus on the prairie, like a one-man bird band who could emit an inexplicable simultaneity of
Become an Audubon Member Membership benefits include one year of Audubon magazine and the latest on birds and their habitats. Your support helps secure a future for birds at risk. The refrain of a Common Raven drove a man to madness in Edgar Allen Poe’s storied poem. Though the call, “Nevermore,” was Poe’s invention, birds’ real cries can often
Make the most of the First Few Weeks with a New Bird It’s so exciting to have a new parrot, isn’t it? When you bring a bird home, you have a wonderful opportunity to establish a positive relationship from the start, set realistic expectations, and get ahead of problem behaviors. When working with a new bird,
Photo Credit: Project FeederWatchhttp://feederwatch.org As years draw to a close, it’s a feeling of reflections on the past and thoughts for the upcoming future, that begin to take hold of us. October/November usually provide a cushion of time before the realities of the New Year come to fruition. But once that happens, we’re on a
A kitten was found abandoned by his cat mother and brought to a local shelter for a second chance at life. Right away, they noticed his silvery grey. @sosuke_kitty The tiny kitten was born with a Fever Coat, a condition that occurs when the pregnant cat is stressed or has a fever during pregnancy, causing
Five months after I bought my first pair of binoculars, I attended my first birding event: a swift-watching party, hosted by the Atlanta Audubon Society. These kinds of gatherings take place every fall across the country to bring awareness to the issues plaguing Chimney Swifts, a North American species that’s plummeted by as much as 53
Once a year right before Halloween, the neighborhood of Kagurazaka in Tokyo, Japan is host to the Bakeneko Festival. It’s a cat lover’s weirdest dream come true with cat fans lining the streets and putting on costumes and face paint, wearing masks, and celebrating cat life. Check Out The Bakeneko Festival! “Bakeneko” means “changed cat”. In Japanese folklore, they are cats
We all know the feeling of adding a new furry member to the family — the initial thought that happens when you decide that it’s time, the warm fuzzy feeling you have as you scour the internet for the purrfect match and the excitement you feel when you’re on the way to pick him or
A kitten was taken to the shelter along with his two siblings, needing rescue. He was much smaller than his age but had an amazing will to live. Michelle Martello Michelle Martello, a volunteer from Feline Hope (in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina), learned about the kittens’ plight and rushed to save them. “When she got
For a decade, a team of ornithologists with Operation Wallacea, an international conservation research organization, summered in a cloud forest in northwestern Honduras, some 7,000 feet above sea level. These weren’t luxury vacations, though: they spent much time hiking through elfin forest, also known as dwarf forest. Monte Neate-Clegg, a PhD student at the University of Utah and the leader
(Photo Credit: Shutterstock) Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday, November 4th, 2018 at 2:00am. For humans, the extra hour when Daylight Saving Time comes to an end is a great way to catch up on sleep. But for dogs, the effects can be very different. Animals don’t set their routines by the clock that we
(Photo Credit: Shutterstock) Halloween is approaching, and you may be thinking of an adorable costume for your cat. But before you dress kitty up as a pirate, step back and think about your cat’s personality. Cats tend to be a lot more sensitive and emotional than most dogs, which is why you see far fewer
This is so cute and adorable! When both of them cobine together, we get fun and cuteness overload! It might not be us funny as some our compilations, but it is defeniely cute as helL! Check it out and laugh with us! From funny kid fails, ridiculous animals, funny sport mistakes, silly accidents,…What is your
It’s that spooky time of the year! Some parrot species seem to especially mesh with a Halloween theme. Here is a lighthearted look at parrot species that bring “trick or treat” up a notch. African grey If there was one parrot that could put together their own “haunted house,” it would be an African grey
Best of funny animal videos. Animals are the best, they never fail to make us laugh! This animal compilation is an extremely hard try not to laugh challenge! Just look how all these dogs, puppies, cats, kittens, pig, fox, toad, parrot,… behave, play, fail, make funny sounds, react to different things and more! So ridiculous,
Black Friday, the popular shopping festival is hailed by one and all as one of the finest events ever introduced in the history of merchandising. Consumers have indicated a ready willingness to breach all boundaries for the sheer pleasure of laying their hands on their prized possessions at any cost. This zest has also gone
Sometimes I think about the kinds of choices adults make. We choose where we work, who we marry, what and where to eat. We choose practical things like our homes and vehicles and fun things, like which books to read, what hobbies to pursue. We choose our vacations. We browse the internet for hours, or
Jenny Drummey has volunteered with the Phoenix Landing Foundation since 2003, serves on the Board of Directors, and has been an Adoption Coordinator for the last 11 years. Her books, Project Parrot: A Behavior Guidebook for You and Your Bird and Biting Matters: Living Bite-free With Your Parrot, have helped hundreds of readers live successfully
Jennifer Cunha is an attorney who formerly taught inner-city children how to read. With that experience, she began teaching her cockatoos phonics and reading skills through a modified approach to systematic phonics instruction. She uses strong conditioning techniques to build vocabulary, and has taught her parrots to correlate phonics to vocabulary development for purposes of
I bet that if you watch this compilation 100 times you will still laugh! Only the best and the very funniest animal videos! This animal compilation is ultra hard try not to laugh challenge! Just look how all these dogs, puppies, cats, kittens, ferret, pigs, sheep, monkeys… behave, play, fail, make funny sounds, react to
Cat lovers rejoice because October 29th is officially National Cat Day! It is the day to celebrate all the things we love about cats. Whether it is their adorable purrs, their cute eye blinks, their hilarious antics, or their cuddly personalities, cats make our lives better every single day. Use this day to spoil your
(Picture Credit: Getty Images) When it comes to leash training your dog, there’s more to it than meets the eye. Puppies aren’t born knowing how to walk on a leash, and new owners need to work with their puppies–or even full-grown, adopted dogs–to make sure they are safe and obedient on their walks. Does your
(Photo Credit: Shutterstock) Many adult rescue dogs come with imperfect housetraining skills–or none at all–and even dogs who were potty trained in their previous homes will need a refresher course if they didn’t get regular walks at the shelter. The good news is it’s fairly easy to teach an old dog this new trick. In
Super hilarious animal videos, you will die laughing for sure! Animals are the best entertainment, they never fail to make us laugh super hard! IMPOSSIBLE try not to laugh challenge! Just look how all these dogs, puppies, cats, kittens, pigs, tortoise, goat, ferret,… behave, play, fail, make funny sounds, react to different things and more!
(Picture Credit: Getty Images) According to the National Sleep Foundation, our dogs spend roughly 12-14 hours per 24-hour period snoozing. Often, dog owners think that little leg twitch or tiny “yip” that comes out while sleeping has to do with something their dog is dreaming about. But do dogs dream? Or are those little twitches completely
Can you imagine a world without the Internet? How about a world without cats on the Internet? These days, we’re all connected online every day of the year, whether at our computers or on our smart phones, and cats play a huge role in the content we consume. So in celebration of a little something
This month marks the 46th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s first small step on the surface of the moon, leaving the first human footprints on some place other than our home planet. But that big glowing rock in the sky is just as perplexing as ever for our canine friends. Do dogs really howl more at
Parasites find our furry pals the most attractive host and suck their blood to continue the lifecycle. For them its a party, however, for the animal and the host, it is just a nuisance. Parasites bring a gamut of diseases along with them which can severely deteriorate the health of our pets. Thus, it is
Grey parrots may sometimes be impulsive—think about how often you may have had to give your bird multiple timeouts for the same behavior (like chewing on your sunglasses) in a very short time period. However, my students and I have shown that our parrot, Griffin, can actually exhibit quite a bit of self-control. We found