Aug. 8 (UPI) — A Colorado couple’s wedding started with monsoon rains and ended with an uninvited guest — a bear — raiding the dessert table. Cailyn McRossie-Martinez and Brandon Martinez shared photos from their Boulder County wedding, which took an unplanned turn when monsoon rains began to fall right before they exchanged vows. “So by the time […]
A 19-foot Burmese python — the longest ever recorded — was caught by local hunters in South Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve this week. To put the catch into perspective, the snake is as long as an adult giraffe is tall. It was caught on Monday by 22-year-old Jake Waleri, who brought the python to the Conservancy […]
Janna Clinton was sitting on her back porch watching her son Charlie, 11, fish in a pond behind their house in Oklahoma this past weekend when he suddenly started yelling for her. “He was screaming, ‘Oh my God, mom! Oh my God!’ ” Clinton told NPR. “I thought he was just being dramatic, to be […]
A community in South Florida has an adorable problem on its hands. Dozens of domesticated bunnies have overrun parts of Wilton Manors, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. Two years after a resident let loose lionhead rabbits from their backyard, according to local lore, the number of rabbits now outnumber the 81 homes in the Jenada […]
Aug. 9 (UPI) — Authorities in North Carolina are searching for a 900-pound longhorn bull that escaped from its owner and gave police the slip. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Animal Care & Control said officers were dispatched Monday to assist Charlotte-Mecklenburg police on a report of a loose bull in the Moores Chapel Road area. Officers learned the longhorn bull’s […]
Aug. 9 (UPI) — Animal rescuers in Britain said a pigeon is recovering after being struck by a car and surviving an 80-mile drive while trapped behind the front grille. The East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service said the Cotterell family was traveling from their Hassocks, Sussex, home to spend the day in Bentworth, Hampshire, when they […]
Aug. 9 (UPI) — A Connecticut family’s home security camera captured the moment a black bear approaching the area where a 4-year-old boy was playing ended up chased off by the family’s dog. Gregory Grant of Sherman shared video showing his young son, Gavin, spotting a black bear in the yard and fleeing. The footage shows the family’s […]
Aug. 10 (UPI) — Reptile wranglers were called to an Arizona home when a resident returned from vacation and found a snake lurking in her toilet. Michelle Lespron said she had just returned to her Tucson home after a trip to Nashville when she lifted the lid of her toilet and came face to face with […]
Aug. 10 (UPI) — An Arizona sheriff’s office shared video of an unusual chase involving deputies, animal sanctuary personnel and a high-jumping wallaby. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a neighborhood in Waddell where a wallaby named Wally was seen wandering loose after a windstorm damaged a gate in his enclosure. “I’ve got […]
