Category: Dog Videos

Now this is an experiment that’s not for the faint hearted.

Who, out of you and your other half or you and your children/parents does the dog love more?

A group of willing, brave volunteers set themselves up for joy/heartache by putting their dog’s affections to the ultimate test. Dare you even watch?

Witness the amazing scenes when these 156 Beagles were freed from an animal testing facility. See their joy as they experience real sunlight and the freedom to run around for the first time in their lives.

The beagles, aged between two and five years old, were captured and caged for testing purposes for a Bangalore-based pharmaceutical laboratory. The directive to release the animals came from the Committee for the Purpose Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals, which is tasked to monitor any activity relating to animal lab testing and experiments.

If ever I were to be in the heavenly/hellish position of being stranded on a desert island, apart from a speedboat, the one luxury I’d like to have with me would be a dog. Probably a Labrador, to be specific about it.

Not only do you get the companionship which may, if you’re that way inclined, tempt you in to abandoning any effort to flee the island, but also their extraordinary ability to prove over and over again why they have earned the title of man’s best friend.

Labradors have a long and storied relationship with the water. The first St. John’s dog – an early forbearer of the breed we now recognise as the Labrador Retriever – was said to have been brought to England in or around 1820, but the breed’s reputation had already spread to these shores; there is a story that the 2nd Earl of Malmesbury saw a St. John’s dog on a fishing boat and immediately made arrangements with traders to have some of these dogs imported to England. These ancestors of the first Labradors so impressed the Earl with their skill and ability for retrieving anything within the water and on shore that he devoted his entire kennel to developing and stabilizing the breed.

Despite many centuries of selective breeding and a controlled evolution of the breed in to a dog perfectly crafted as a sporting companion, the Labrador can still fish. Here, watch….

Anyone’s who’s ever been apart from their dog for more than 30 minutes will attest to the fact that a canine welcome is something that makes us feel really, really special.

Now watch this video of a dog hunting for an owner after being apart for 7 months….

Source https://www.facebook.com/todaysAnimals/videos/752873221479469/

Following the sad death of their mother,Willow, five cheetah cubs are being given a helping hand by a canine surrogate mother.

The cubs were born via C-section at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s Cheetah Breeding Facility on March 8. Zoo vets were hopeful that their five-year-old mother would make a full recovery following surgery, but she remained lethargic and lost her appetite and sadly passed away.

“Cheetahs are a fragile species and this difficult birth proved to be too much for her to pull through” said Thane Maynard, Director of the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. “Willow was able to contribute to the survival of her species by producing five cheetah cubs. Without the C-section, we likely would have lost both the mom and the cubs.”

The cubs have been receiving critical care in the Zoo’s nursery since they were born. Nursery staff have been bottle-feeding the premature cubs every three hours and closely monitoring their weight. Australian shepherd “Blakely,” the Zoo’s resident nursery companion and former nanny to several Zoo babies, has been called into action to provide snuggling, comfort and a body to climb.

“They really turned a corner this weekend. They opened their eyes, had good appetites and, most importantly, they pooped!” said Head Nursery Keeper Dawn Strasser of the cubs. “It’s important to keep their digestive system moving. We’ve been massaging their bellies and giving them opportunities to exercise as much as possible.”

Blakely will have his paws full with this assignment. “His first job is to let the cubs climb on him, which they did as soon as they were put together. They need the exercise to build muscle tone and get their guts moving,” said Strasser, who supervises daily climbing sessions and other interactions with Blakely.

As the cubs grow, Blakely’s role in their development will shift from climbable companion and hairy warm body to teacher and role model. He taught his last student, a baby takin named Dale, to jump up on rocks and to keep his head butts in the gentle range. His first charge, a single cheetah cub named “Savanna,” learned the difference between a playful bite and the start of a fight from Blakely.

The cubs (3 boys and 2 girls) will remain in the nursery for at least 8-12 weeks. After that, they will be hand-raised and trained to be cheetah ambassadors. Visitors may be able to view the cubs through the nursery windows, but some feedings and exams will take place behind the scenes.

Since cheetah breeding is most successful in both the wild and in zoo settings when cheetahs have multiple mates to choose from, the cheetah SSP has set up several Regional Cheetah Breeding Facilities in zoos across the U.S. for the purpose of breeding genetically important animals. The Cincinnati Zoo is one of nine AZA-accredited institutions that participate in a cheetah Breeding Center Coalition (BCC). Working closely with the Cheetah Species Survival Plan (SSP), the BCC’s goal is to create a sustainable cheetah population that will prevent extinction of the world’s fastest land animal.

Cheetahs are endangered, and their population worldwide has shrunk from about 100,000 in 1900 to an estimated 9,000 to 12,000 cheetahs today.