animal rescue: Last News

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle showed off a new member of their family in their 2024 holiday card.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex released the card on Monday, a little over a week before Christmas. In addition to featuring the first photo of their children Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3, that the couple have shared since 2022, the festive card also marked the first time the royals have been photographed with the newest addition to their family, their rescue dog Momma Mia.

Puppy Bowl XXI.Maxx was dumped at an animal shelter last year, probably by a breeder who deemed him “unsellable” due to a malformed front leg, which the shelter was forced to amputate, according to the Nevada SPCA.Now, the plucky pooch will join 142 other rescue dogs in Discovery’s annual showcase, in which rescue pups from around the country will “compete” on a miniature football field while their human counterparts make dog piles in New Orleans when the Kansas City Chiefs face off against the Philadelphia Eagles. A shelter staff member drove Maxx 2,500 miles to a New York TV studio to record the paw-stigious event, which aims to raise awareness for rescue animals.The spotted spectacle — which had more than 13 million viewers last year — features two squads of rescue dogs (“Team Fluff” and “Team Ruff”) chasing balls, toys and one another as human referee Dan Schachner calls “penalties” for infractions like fighting (“unnecessary ruffness”) and pooping on the turf (“excessive fertilization”).“We named him Maxx after Max Crosby from the Las Vegas Raiders,” Nevada SPCA director Lori Heeren told The Post.

Puppy Bowl’s tiniest puppy to ever participate.Sweetpea — a Cavapoo breed, or a mix between a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and a poodle — weighed just 1.7 pounds at the time of the Puppy Bowl 2024, which aired on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 11.But the Puppy Bowl was filmed in October 2023, and many fans who fell in love with Sweetpea didn’t know that she didn’t live to see her big debut air.Sweetpea — born on July 1, 2023, in Tennessee and raised at Bosley’s Place rescue in Georgia — died from a kidney illness on Nov.

video of the impromptu animal controller’s good deed is now going viral on Instagram, and city slickers praise her varmint-handling prowess.“I think it was just instinctual,” Sara Fulton — who goes by @Sarakalee on Instagram — told NBC New York of handling the scruffy customer. “I’m from Alaska, and I used to go camping with black bears hanging out at my campsite.”This now-viral rapscallion wandered into Temkin’s Bar in Greenpoint last Thursday night, sending patrons into a panic.

The Tiger King, he is not.