Keep your dog active and engaged for a long and contented life

Keep your dog active and engaged for a long and contented life

That couch-potato pooch of yours needs to get outside and move. Any dog that spends all day zonked on the couch is not only doing little to stay engaged with the outside world, but might also be developing more than a few health problems right under your nose, according to celebrity dog trainer Chrissy Joy. … Read more

Iguana lays dozens of eggs in Miami resort pool after being trapped in a waterslide

Iguana lays dozens of eggs in Miami resort pool after being trapped in a waterslide

Laying eggs if you’re an iguana in South Florida isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. One female iguana was recently removed from a Miami resort swimming pool after laying more than two dozen eggs on its water slide. Michael Ronquillo of Humane Iguana Control, in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, said, “A … Read more

Animal idioms we can’t resist: Why do we say ‘cat got your tongue’ and other popular phrases?

Animal idioms we can’t resist: Why do we say ‘cat got your tongue’ and other popular phrases?

Why do we say “elephant in the room”? Why do we say “dog and pony show”? And why do we say “sly as a fox”? These and many other popular expressions are part of everyday life in the English language — yet most of us don’t really know their interesting origin stories. Here’s a fun … Read more

Here are the uniquely urban hazards that endanger NYC dogs

Here are the uniquely urban hazards that endanger NYC dogs

Life can be ruff for the cosmopolitan canines of New Yorkie.  Limbs caught in revolving doors and lethal rat poison on the sidewalk are just a couple of the quintessentially urban hazards that Big Apple pooches face, according to a city-based veterinarian with nearly 40 years on the job.  Recently, Dr. Ann Hohenhaus was reading … Read more

Spanish hospital enlists therapy dogs to boost ICU patients’ morale

Spanish hospital enlists therapy dogs to boost ICU patients’ morale

Joel Bueno shed tears of joy as his four-legged guests entered the intensive care unit where he had been admitted due to a blood clot. Bueno, 34, said being showered with affection by therapy dogs Vida and Lu reminded him of his own dog back home. “It’s great to have someone that loves you more … Read more

Monkey see, monkey do! Stunned tourists photobombed by selfie-taking macaque in Bali

Monkey see, monkey do! Stunned tourists photobombed by selfie-taking macaque in Bali

It was like a snapshot of evolution. A cheeky monkey perhaps proved that we’re more closely related than we think after it seemingly took a selfie with two British tourists in Bali, Indonesia. “It definitely was a trip of a lifetime!” Chloe Dennis told Caters News Agency of the primatological photo-op, which occurred while she … Read more

Meet the man who has worked at Bronx Zoo for 50 years — and recused tigers and leopards — as the animal refuge turns 125

Meet the man who has worked at Bronx Zoo for 50 years — and recused tigers and leopards — as the animal refuge turns 125

It’s a Bronx tail. For 125 years, the Bronx Zoo has dazzled and inspired visitors with exotic and beautiful creatures like gorillas and tigers and lemurs — oh, my! “Guests love to see the care, the dedication and the passion that our staff have for making sure that these animals were well cared for,” Jim … Read more

Drunk vultures found ‘actively dying’ until wildlife refuge helped ‘detox’ them

Drunk vultures found ‘actively dying’ until wildlife refuge helped ‘detox’ them

WATERTOWN, Conn. – Treating drunk vultures can be challenging, as evidenced by an intoxicating discovery from a Connecticut wildlife refuge. A pair of energetic black vultures celebrated a day early for the solar eclipse on April 8 in Watertown by dumpster diving. They eventually stumbled upon something sufficiently fermented to cause serious inebriation.  “They were literally drunk. Unable to balance, stand, kept passing out or … Read more

Aussie diver’s magical interaction with enormous octopus that led her to a secret underwater shrine

Aussie diver’s magical interaction with enormous octopus that led her to a secret underwater shrine

Seasoned diver Jules Casey assumed the enormous octopus was merely curious about her when he stretched out a long tentacle and wrapped it around her hand. But when he began swimming away, leading her alongside him, she was the one who was intrigued. Where were they going? “He would swim a little way, then stop … Read more

Horse looking to stirrup trouble while found around train station

Horse looking to stirrup trouble while found around train station

Have you heard the one about a horse that walked into a train station? It might seem like a tall tale, but it actually happened in Sydney’s southwest on Friday night. Just before midnight, CCTV footage captured a horse casually trotting onto the platform at Warwick Farm Station in a “spur of the moment trip” … Read more

Tragic stingray misunderstanding 18 years after Steve Irwin’s death remains

Tragic stingray misunderstanding 18 years after Steve Irwin’s death remains

September 4, 2006 is a date that will live in infamy in the hearts of many Australians – the day Aussie icon and conservationist Steve Irwin died, killed by a stingray while filming on the Great Barrier Reef. It’s a death that sent shockwaves around the world as The Crocodile Hunter was a global brand … Read more

Mooing cows prompt hundreds of noise complaints — new law tells residents to shut up

Mooing cows prompt hundreds of noise complaints — new law tells residents to shut up

There’s some real beef between the cows and humans of France. Amid noise complaints from residents in the countryside, the French parliament has upheld a law that grants cows the right to moo. Police receive hundreds of noise complaints about mooing cows every year from grumpy neighbors, mostly urbanites who moved to the rural countryside … Read more

Woman makes gross discovery in her underwear drawer after her dogs went ‘berserk’

Woman makes gross discovery in her underwear drawer after her dogs went ‘berserk’

An Australian woman was rifling through her underwear drawer when she came across an unsettling and “confronting” sight. Heading off to bed recently, Vicki, a mum from Brisbane, noticed her dogs going “berserk” in the direction of her drawers. She thought nothing of it and headed off to bed. “The next morning she woke up … Read more

Italian island overrun by goats is begging people to catch and take them away

Italian island overrun by goats is begging people to catch and take them away

This Italian island is overrun by so many goats that locals are begging people to sail away with as many as they can catch. Alicudi is the least inhabited — when you’re counting people, that is — of the seven Aeolian islands floating off the northern coast of Sicily. It is home to about 100 residents … Read more

Glass Animals announce 2024 ‘Tour Of Earth.’ Get tickets today

Glass Animals announce 2024 ‘Tour Of Earth.’ Get tickets today

Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Glass Animals are traveling far and wide in 2024. The English indie rockers just announced their ‘Tour Of Earth’ that will send them all North America and Europe … Read more

Angie Harmon accuses Instacart delivery driver of shooting and killing her dog

Angie Harmon accuses Instacart delivery driver of shooting and killing her dog

Angie Harmon accused an Instacart delivery driver of shooting and killing her family’s dog in a social media post shared Monday. The fatal shooting of Harmon’s dog named Oliver occurred over Easter weekend shortly after a man delivered an order to the “Rizzoli & Isles” star’s home. “He got out of his car, delivered the food & THEN … Read more

Good Samaritan rescues 5-legged lamb, seeks life-saving surgery funds

Good Samaritan rescues 5-legged lamb, seeks life-saving surgery funds

A “sweet” five-legged lamb rescued in Mississippi has a lot to celebrate this Easter. The little one, appropriately named Spider Lamb, was taken in by Good Samaritan Natalie Renot on Monday, after she got a call from Speirs Farm in Perkinston, Mississippi, from which she’s rescued nine other animals. “Usually when they’re born like that, … Read more

Beach-goers horrified after finding real-life ‘Dune worm’ vampire creature

Beach-goers horrified after finding real-life ‘Dune worm’ vampire creature

Beach-goers were aghast after a bloodsucking sea beast the size of a child washed ashore in the UK, sparking comparisons to the supersized sandworms from “Dune.” A photo of the parasitic critter made waves on Facebook as viewers attempted to guess its identity. “It was like a hugely oversized leech with a sucker full of … Read more

Washington sheriff receives bizarre Sasquatch call from curious hunter

Washington sheriff receives bizarre Sasquatch call from curious hunter

A sheriff’s office in Washington state revealed last week that it received a strange call from an aspiring Bigfoot hunter. The Stevens County Sheriff’s Office kept the caller’s identity concealed when it posted to Facebook about the incident on March 19. While the exact transcript of the call was not shared, the office publicized a staff member’s … Read more