A couple who were preparing to retire has revealed they felt compelled to adopt seven children after seeing an advert on social media. Pam, 50, and Gary Willis, 53, from Menifee, California, who have five children and had been fostering kids for many years, explained that they were anticipating retirement and their last child leaving their six … Read more
Orphaned five-month-old baby koala gets an adorable arm cast after falling from a tree and breaking its limb A tiny koala joey is recovering after a fall from a tree at a logging plantation Staff at Werribee Open Range Zoo provided round the clock care for the joey The joey was fitted with a tiny … Read more
Thirsty work: Adorable moment orphaned baby elephant gets to grips with holding its own feeding bottle Bondeni tries to hold onto the bottle of warm formula milk with tip of his trunk Baby elephant loses his grip on the bottle and allows keeper to offer him a hand The footage was captured at the Sheldrick … Read more
Mrs Ainsworth was a plumpish, pleasant-faced woman in her 40s and the kind of client veterinary surgeons dream of: well-off, generous, and the owner of three cosseted Basset Hounds. It only needed the habitually mournful expressions of one of the dogs to deepen a little and I was round there post-haste. One autumn morning, one … Read more
Orphaned puppies are found clinging to the body of their frozen mother in -20C weather – and now their Russian rescuers are looking for new homes for the pups The whining animals were found sheltering next to their mother’s dead body Rescuers found them lying in the snow in the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia The … Read more
Otterly heartmelting: Orphaned sea otter Joey chomps on ice cubes at Canadian rescue centre where he has become a livestream sensation Joey was taken in as a newborn by Ocean Wise Marine Mammal Rescue Centre In absence of a mother, he’s learning how to be an otter at Vancouver Aquarium The species came close to … Read more
Orphaned chimpanzees are found to face lifelong setbacks, as mothers teach foraging and social skills, study reveals Orphaned male chimps have fewer offspring and are less competitive as adults Chimps stay with mothers until they’re teens but feed themselves by age 4 or 5 Researchers think mothers continue to teach juveniles foraging and social skills … Read more
Two British girls who witnessed their parents being shot dead by a mystery killer in the French Alps are to be reinterviewed – eight years after the horrific murders. Zainab and Zeena Al-Hilli were just seven and four when their father Saad, 50, and mother Iqbal, 47, were gunned down in front of them close … Read more
Tragedy as two girls, aged 10 and 18 months, are orphaned after losing both their ‘utterly devoted’ parents in head-on crash with ‘drug’ driver Robert Bateman, 36, and his wife Paula, 35, died following a head-on collision Their daughters Lexi, 10, and Elizabeth, 18 months, were also in the car The Ford Focus was in … Read more
Cat’s best friend! Abandoned German Shepherd-mix cares for orphaned litter of kittens like they are her own after being left ‘frantic’ when her puppies died German Shepherd-mix Georgia was found in July by volunteers in Arizona She was pregnant when she was taken in by Sunshine Dog Rescue of Phoenix But on August 13 her puppies … Read more