Two micropigs have been rescued after a motorist found them tied by their necks to a lamp post by the side of the road.
The distressed animals had been tied up using a baling twine in New Romney in Kent, England. Their rescuer, who was on his way home from work, noticed the animals needed saving and took them home.
The man brought the two pigs back to his house, where he kept them overnight, before handing them over to The Lord Whiskey Sanctuary in Stelling Minnis, near Canterbury, where staff believed the pair were micropigs. It is the first…
For the past several decades, Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, in New Hampshire, has hosted a frequent flier with no known credentials. It comes and goes as it pleases, always bypassing security; it carries no luggage, not even a government-issued ID.
But unlike the other passengers that regularly flock to Pease, the upland sandpiper—a spindly, brown-freckled bird native to North America’s grasslands—has no destination apart from the airport itself. The fields between Pease’s runways and taxiways are now the only place in the entire state where the species is known to reproduce regularly. Each year, about seven sandpiper couples nest…
Animal rights activists say they have taken three lambs from the King’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.
Imagery released by Animal Rising shows three women, in pink Animal Rising t-shirts, walking through a field of sheep and loading the lambs into the back of a vehicle.
Animal Rising said that the woman took the three lambs from Appleton Farm at around 8pm on Wednesday.
The group said that the lambs would have been sent for slaughter.
Animal rights group Animal Rising says three activists have taken three sheep from the King’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk (Animal Rising/PA)
Animal Rising said that…