#animal-sanctuary

#animal-sanctuary

It might not have been at the same level as pardoning Thanksgiving turkeys, or January 6 US capitol attack participants but the mayor of Miami-Dade had her own Donald Trump moment Tuesday in ritually sparing the life of a pig named Six Seven. Daniella Levine Cava performed the seasonal stunt in the Cuban-themed Latin Cafe 2000 in the heart of Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, where the immigrant population has also been affected by Trump's aggressive new policies targeting them.

A Ventura County animal sanctuary has been ordered to pay more than $50,000 in penalties and other fees for housing exotic animals without permits. The sanctuary, Born to Be Free in Frazier Park, was found to be in possession of African lions, leopards, warthogs, a European brown bear, a serval, a fishing cat, a leopard-tiger hybrid, a lion-tiger hybrid and a wolf-dog hybrid, the Ventura County district attorney's office said in a news release.

The great horned owl was found at the Black Desert Resort in the south-western part of the state and arrived at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, earlier this month with its face, chest and right wing covered in dried concrete. After making sure the bird could breathe, sanctuary workers spent days cracking apart the concrete using forceps and cleaning its feathers using toothbrushes, dish soap and their fingers. Two weeks later, it was able to fly again and is continuing its recovery in an aviary.

"Paws Around the World is our global photography project where we offer free, spontaneous portraits of dogs we meet on the streets while travelling," Rohner told PinkNews.

A five-foot long lizard that escaped from Webster was found, Webster Animal Control announced Saturday. Goose, a water monitor lizard, had been lost for two weeks from the area of Blueberry Lane.