RIO DE JANEIRO — Dozens of dogs dressed as alligators, fairies and superheroes gathered Saturday at a Rio de JaneiroCarnival street party as their owners protested cruelty against pets ... “Dogs are a part of our families ... Sign up ... AP/Silvia Izquierdo ... 22.
I asked my crew to contribute to our Facebook page video promoting Giving Hearts Day through our animal residents. They did a great job and made it look easy. In fact, much of what you see was self-videoed — something ... .
Some animals hung on, somehow, through one of the most brutal events in Earth’s history... Any animal out in the open would have been roasted almost instantly ... Perhaps some animals just got lucky.
But providing appropriate habitat, social and intellectual enrichment, and encouraging natural behavioural expression in captive animals has been a welfare principle at Melbourne Zoo for years now.