Employees at San Diego’s oceanfront Marine Room restaurant got a surprise guest when they discovered a malnourished sea lion curled up on one of their booths. Staff aren’t exactly sure how the 8-month-old California sea lion got in, but the fancy fish restaurant’s executive chef, Bernard Guillas, said the starving sea lion might have snuck…
The friendly penguin just wanted to say “hello” when he hopped across the street to greet a man on the sidewalk. The Tawaki, or Fiordland Crested Penguin, waddles over the road to stand snext to a man named Rodney. He seems interested in striking up a conversation and listens intently. The couple who recorded the…
For Raju the bear, every day was filled with sadness. With a rope strung through his nose controlling his every move, Raju was forced by his owner to “dance” on the streets of India to earn tips. To passersby, it looked like he was dancing — but Raju was really just squirming in pain as…
Officer Roger Pereira has had his share of odd days on the job, but on Tuesday morning a call came through that left him stunned. The tiniest offender was holding up traffic on the busy US-101, just south of San Francisco. He was sure it had to be some sort of prank or mistake. “I…
Last November, a kitten named June turned up as a stray in Hout Bay, a town in Cape Town, South Africa. “She was brought in … by a member of the community who had found her, and I think her mum had been killed,” Holly Gilbert-Jones, a volunteer at Domestic Animal Rescue Group (DARG), told…
On Saturday morning, JP Brammer was relaxing at home when he heard an odd scuffling noise outside his apartment door. Brammer, a journalist based in New York, cautiously went to investigate and found something entirely unexpected. “When I took a peek through the eyehole, I saw the two dogs and a cat,” Brammer told The…
Folks at this Philadelphia animal shelter are hoping to find someone with room in their heart for a sweet cat named BeeJay — but it’s important to note that he’ll take up a bit more space than most. “OMG, big boi Mr. B is a CHONK,” the Morris Animal Refuge wrote online. “He’s a chonk…
It’s now been months since Zeus the cat said a final farewell to his friend, a dog named Sam who passed away. But the saddened cat’s love for his old canine companion still burns strong in his heart. And recently, that couldn’t have been made more clear. On the surface, Zeus and Sam’s relationship may…
Brittney Benincasa came home to find a fawn lying by her pool soaking wet and thought the deer had accidentally fallen in to the water of her New Jersey home’s pool. But it turns out the young deer was actually beating the heat. Brittney called animal control and kept an eye on the deer but…
Fenton Police responded to a bizarre breaking and entering on Wednesday, September 25th. Police believe a deer may have been hit by a car and then crashed through the window of a home. Once inside the home, police say the deer went into the bathtub and would not leave. Sgt. Dave Reinfelder said officers called…