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the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday. “I started looking around and yelling out and (the otters) popped up right in front of me. Then they dove down and started going at me again.”Although Finn isn’t sure why she was assaulted, she thinks it may have been a mother protecting her offspring, as she spotted three of them just moments after being bitten.

@dobbyisafreedoodle on Instagram and TikTok, says she has taught her 3-year-old dog to respond to “Harry Potter” spells as commands.“I knew long before Dobby came along that I would train my future dog with ‘Harry Potter’ spells instead of regular commands,” she captioned a recent viral clip. “I love feeling like I have real-life magical powers every time I ask him to come, stay, or play dead.”The Toronto resident named her Labradoodle after Dobby, the house elf in the “Harry Potter” series.In a 51-second clip posted this month, Li reveals the 15 “Harry Potter” spells her pooch comprehends.

Blake exclaims as Emmanuel sticks his long neck into the frame.To Blake’s surprise, the emu seems to back down. “That brings me great joy in my soul that you listened.” Blake captioned the clip, “He knew I meant business when I whipped out his government name.”In another recent post with nearly 3 million views — captioned “Animals against education” — Blake can be seen talking to the camera as their free-range dwellers enter the scene and ruin the shot.“I can’t catch a break, guys — I’ve been trying to film this forever,” an exasperated Blake says the moment before Emmanuel’s sister Ellen enters the frame — head first as she stares down the lens of the camera before pecking it onto the muddy earth.“OK, guys, I’m just gonna be honest with you.

not winning the Westminster Dog Show anytime soon. A bald-bodied, 17-year-old Chinese crested-Chihuahua mix named Mr. Happy Face scored points for mutts who are ruff on the eyes after winning the 2022 World’s Ugliest Dog Contest Saturday in Petaluma, California.

Guinness World Records. The little guy celebrated his 21st birthday on Jan. 9 and was officially recognized as the world’s oldest dog on March 16.

on Twitter and Instagram, many of whom may be among the 1.3 million commuters in and around Istanbul, where Boji is known to roam. And it’s always a treat to meet the golden-furred, floppy-eared pooch while patronizing public transit — trains, buses and even ferries — throughout Europe’s largest metro area that’s gone viral for being the “City of Cats.”But Boji is ruling social media these days.

followers on both TikTok and Instagram, does every day. The 9-pound pooch has a larger-than-life personality on social media — and a sizable wardrobe to match.“I think now we’re up to almost 300 items in her closet,” dog dad Thomas Shapiro told The Post.

Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are back at it again this year. The finalists for 2021 have arrived and these pics are to die for!The photo contest is just a few years old and was started by Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom Sullam in 2015.

Hurricane Ida. A clip of the adorable inter-ruff-tion currently boasts nearly 300,000 views on YouTube and has gone viral around the globe.In the uproarious footage, Global News meteorologist Anthony Farnell can be seen updating viewers on the forecast for Hurricane Ida that coming weekend — when his goldendoodle casually wanders onto the green-screen set.“Yes, Storm is in the building,” quips the broadcaster, noting that his four-legged friend seemed to be “walking on thin air” as he appeared on-screen.

told the Cape Cod Times that Arnold would continually stumble and fall over, so the team gave him an exam.“Upon exam our veterinary team found that he had two open-fractures on his foot,” the wildlife center explained on Facebook. “This means that the tissue and skin has been pulled away leaving the bone exposed.

colt following. Phantom, a 7-year-old Shire breed who lives at a Maryland rescue center, is getting a lot of attention after a TikTok video showcasing his towering, nearly 7-foot height brought in more than 11 million views.Although Shires are generally a tall breed, Phantom’s soaring stature is still unusual, as the largest rarely clear 6 feet.“We can’t take Phantom anywhere without crowds coming over to stand next to him and get a picture of the giant horse,” Lauren Nation, director of development at Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue in Mount Airy, Maryland, told Newsflare.

told Today of the marker, which reads “my cat is a thief” alongside a picture of Esme clutching a glove in its mouth. Dangling from a clothesline next to it are gloves and other pilfered belongings, which Felmet encourages the rightful owners to take back.She had had previously returned the items during door-to-door “apology rounds,” Insider reported.Felmet, an ICU doctor, dreamt up the unusual method of giving re-purr-ations after noticing that the furry scavenger had been pilfering her neighbors’ stuff over the past few years.

Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show may not be open to live spectators, but the show — held outdoors at the Lyndhurst mansion in Tarrytown, New York, for the first time — will still go on, with live coverage Saturday and Sunday on Fox Sports as well as streamed through Westminster’s website. And it will still be packed with pampered pups who are better groomed than most humans.

over social media, they confirmed that the beloved television personality and zookeeper had officially resigned his post as director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in December, a role which he held for 42 years.

statement about the study, published in Frontiers in Psychology on Thursday.Each level cleared would prompt a reward mechanism, granting the pig a treat for their good work. And, with encouragement from research team members, the hogs continued to play the game and advance levels even after the reward dispenser stopped spitting out food.Granted, they’re far from pinball wizards: With moderate difficulty settings, Omelette and Hamlet, both Yorkshire pigs, delivered correct responses at rates of 70% and 78%, respectively — deemed “above chance” in terms of probability, indicating that their scores weren’t driven by complete guesses.

“foreshadowed” an extended winter for 2021. His Staten Island counterpart, Chuck, predicted an early spring.

meows for food not noisy enough? Try teaching it to play piano.Kate Nyx, from Philadelphia, has trained her cat Winslow to rap on the keys of a miniature piano when he’s hungry. Since then, the 7-year-old tabby has taken up tickling the ivories for various other needs and whims, such as litter cleaning or affection.“He used to run around screaming all the time and I was like, ‘this is no good’,” said Winslow’s owner Kate Nyx, from Philadelphia, who had hoped he would make music rather than meow.“He started showing interest in the piano when he was a baby,” said the 29-year-old musician, who purchased the tiny upright on Ebay more than a decade ago.

There might be plenty of photoshopped images out on the internet, but these animals really do exist. Hybrids can occur naturally in the wild, albeit very rarely (or unfortunately because of unscrupulous breeders).