A group of urial spotted in the hilly terrain of Salt Range. As local poachers are killing rare urials with most getting away with impunity, foreign hunters are enjoying trophy hunting by paying a hefty fee to the Punjab government.… Read More »Foreigners Turn Towards the Salt Range
ISTANBUL: The Vetbus, a mobile clinic service for animals. Concerned for the health of a black cat roaming around the university campus where she works, Mevlude dropped off the feline at the veterinary clinic for street animals run by the… Read More »Istanbul Vets Make Stray Animals Feel at Home
The number of migratory birds coming in from Siberia has declined drastically over the past three decades. Around 150,000 birds, including local and migratory waterfowl, were estimated to have landed at 12 aquatic ‘stopovers’, which is 70% less than in… Read More »Even the Birds Have Stopped Visiting Pakistan
The Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad’s (MCI) wildlife directorate has confiscated two dozen jackets and other items made with animal fur. The directorate raided a store in a luxury hotel in Feb 2019 and confiscated 24 leopard fur jackets, as well as… Read More »Animal Fur Jackets Confiscated in Islamabad
The Karachi Zoo has reported a single birth in fallow deer, four in white fallow deer, three in black bucks, two in nilgai, one in rhesus monkeys, one in spotted deer, three in blue peacocks, 10 in crocodiles and three… Read More »Birth Spree at the Karachi Zoo
Canine can sniff out the socks worn by children carrying the mosquito-borne parasites, a study finds. By Donald G. McNeil Jr. Nov. 5, 2018/ NYT Dogs have such exquisitely sensitive noses that they can detect bombs, drugs, citrus and other contraband in luggage… Read More »Dogs Can Detect Malaria. How Useful Is That?
A Bangladeshi security guard was handed a jail sentence on May 10, 2018 in Dhaka for burying alive two dogs and their 14 puppies, in what activists hailed as the country’s first ever animal cruelty conviction. Mohammad Siddique, who buried… Read More »Burying Alive Two Dogs & Their 14 Puppies
By Maeve Higgins When I got a puppy, I didn’t put her photo on social media for weeks because I was afraid she’d die or I’d have to give her back. I told hardly anybody I got a dog. I… Read More »Get Yourself a Giant Dog
Certain people in my household — and I’m not naming names — have been waging a stealth and coordinated campaign to get a dog. One of them might drop subtle hints when we pass a particularly cute poodle in the… Read More »The Dog is in Charge
Rich New Yorkers who feel bad about keeping their dogs inside all day are paying dog hikers to let them run free in the country. Two years ago, Dane and Brooke Carillo brought home Mackey, an English cream golden retriever, to… Read More »Can’t Take Your Fancy Dog Hiking in the Country? Hire a Pro
