Day: October 15, 2024

A truly special baby seal rescue: instead of biting his rescuers and running away like most other rescued seals, this baby seal was very relaxed and comfortable when Antoine and Naude from Ocean Conservation Namibia (OCN) managed to catch and release him.

They spotted him at Pelican Point, close to Walvis Bay and Swakopmund, during their usual morning patrol to look for entangled seals. This one was caught in a big ball of commercial fishing line, which was probably thrown overboard a fishing vessel.

Human impact on our wild life is immense. Ghost fishing nets are a huge portion or our ocean rubbish and plastic pollution, sustainability is not regarded as important. This injured baby seal was lucky, he was found soon before it would have taken his life due to starvation or suffocation.
Our animals deserve better.
After this rescue, Naude and Tony quickly caught and released two more seals – it was good day for OCN and our seals

I was given a couple of rats as a gift once. I’d never considered them as pets, but they won me over with their charm and intelligence. Mine even took great care of each other. One of them got a bit sick, and the other one brought her food and kept her clean and comfortable until she got better.

1 year ago (edited)
To those not in the know, Edgar recently passed away. He went in his sleep, and was found by his family in the morning. Rats, unfortunately, do not live very long lives. Most typically only live for about 2 years, 3 if you’re really lucky. Edgar made it to a good 2 or so, despite some heart problems. Rest well squish man.

EDIT: for clarity, I am not Edgar’s owner, just a follower of his family’s Instagram account.

There’s really no better feeling in the world than when someone or something runs to you unafraid to embrace you. Something about gaining the trust of an animal or child to where they love you and know you’d never do them harm and seeing you is the happiest part of their day is just everything.

This king cobra was found trapped in a fishing net on New Year’s Day near a rice paddy in East India. When the local villagers found the trapped snake, they called in snake rescuer Mirza Arif.

Arif uses scissors to cut the fishing net off, but not before giving the cobra sips of water from a Sprite bottle to quench his thirst. After being freed from the net, the snake was later released near where he was found.

That’s very kind and thoughtful of you to give the cobra some water especially when there’s drought. There’s nothing more important than water.

What a respectful and compassionate community for calling him to rescue the snake, when they could’ve easily killed it.