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Blind Dog Gets Helped Out By His Own Seeing Eye Dog Pal One day Tanner & Blair started exercising in a play yard together. Blair all of a sudden seemed to realize that Tanner was blind and just started to help him around. After Tanner and Blair established their friendship, Tanner’s seizures decreased considerably. Likewise, Tanner has had a calming influence on Blair, who is now much less anxious and timid.“We’ve worked with a lot of different service dogs to provide these services for people. But it’s the first time I’ve seen anything like this.” Click photo for full article. UPDATE: Watch the video here! :) www.anthropomorphia.com

Blind Dog Gets Helped Out By His Own Seeing Eye Dog Pal

One day Tanner & Blair started exercising in a play yard together. Blair all of a sudden seemed to realize that Tanner was blind and just started to help him around. After Tanner and Blair established their friendship, Tanner’s seizures decreased considerably. Likewise, Tanner has had a calming influence on Blair, who is now much less anxious and timid.

“We’ve worked with a lot of different service dogs to provide these services for people. But it’s the first time I’ve seen anything like this.” Click photo for full article.

UPDATE: Watch the video here! :)

www.anthropomorphia.com

Ethiopian girl guarded from gang rape & assault by three lions. “The girl had been taken by seven men who wanted to force her to marry one of them. She was beaten repeatedly. Then the lions chased off her captors. The three lions guarded her for about half a day. They stood guard until we found her and then they just left her like a gift and went back into the forest.” Then, Stuart Williams (the local wildlife ‘expert’) suggests that perhaps the lions mistook the 12 year old girl’s cries for a lion cub. Which seems awfully silly, considering that lions are perfectly capable of telling the apart the gazelles they eat from their own cubs, aren’t they? For more amazing stories like this, please follow: www.anthropomorphia.tumblr.com !

Ethiopian girl guarded from gang rape & assault by three lions.

“The girl had been taken by seven men who wanted to force her to marry one of them. She was beaten repeatedly. Then the lions chased off her captors. The three lions guarded her for about half a day. They stood guard until we found her and then they just left her like a gift and went back into the forest.”

Then, Stuart Williams (the local wildlife ‘expert’) suggests that perhaps the lions mistook the 12 year old girl’s cries for a lion cub. Which seems awfully silly, considering that lions are perfectly capable of telling the apart the gazelles they eat from their own cubs, aren’t they?

For more amazing stories like this, please follow: www.anthropomorphia.tumblr.com !

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Elk saves drowning marmot from his drinking trough! Keepers at Pocatello Zoo, Idaho, were worried when they noticed Shooter, a four-year-old elk, acting strangely at his water trough. They watched as he tried to dip his hooves in, before attempting to dunk his whole head in the water. Then they were amazed as 10ft tall Shooter lifted his head from the trough clutching a tiny marmot - a kind of large squirrel - between his jaws! He spent quite a bit of time planning how to grab it. Way to go Shooter! Please click photo for full article (just ignore the part where they suggest Shooter’s actions might be just because he didn’t like having something in his way, ok? Obviously we all know that Shooter’s a hero - that’s clearly why he did it!)

Elk saves drowning marmot from his drinking trough!

Keepers at Pocatello Zoo, Idaho, were worried when they noticed Shooter, a four-year-old elk, acting strangely at his water trough. They watched as he tried to dip his hooves in, before attempting to dunk his whole head in the water. Then they were amazed as 10ft tall Shooter lifted his head from the trough clutching a tiny marmot - a kind of large squirrel - between his jaws! He spent quite a bit of time planning how to grab it. Way to go Shooter!

Please click photo for full article (just ignore the part where they suggest Shooter’s actions might be just because he didn’t like having something in his way, ok? Obviously we all know that Shooter’s a hero - that’s clearly why he did it!)

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Housefly surgery!We recently saw our cat paying an unusual amount of attention to the underside of our radiator. We investigated, and discovered a fly that had become entangled in cobwebs and was about to be killed by a spider! It was buzzing & spinning frantically in tight circles. We managed to get it away from the spider before it got envenomated (Which is stealing the spider’s dinner, we know, we know! The cycle of life sucks, and we know everyone’s got to eat, but we just couldn’t sit there and listen to the terrified death throes of the fly.)So now we’ve got a fly that’s half cocooned in webbing - it’s wing is stuck to it’s back and it’s back legs are all bundled together. Awful. We can’t leave it like that, but how to get it free without doing even more damage?So we pulled out the tweezers and got to work. It took three stressful procedures to get it all done, but when the last bit got dislodged the fly’s wings popped into their proper positions in a very glorious ‘I’m all better now’ sort of way, it was finally free of that darned piece of cobwebbing that we’d been holding it in place with, it flew around quite vigorously, and then settled down for a big bath and some of the sugar water we kept it supplied with. Then we set the fly off into a warm, sunny, autumn afternoon!!!What’s interesting is that the fly became much calmer the instant we got it away from the spider, and throughout the whole ordeal it figured out that we were helping it, because it would progressively let us get closer and closer without trying to evade us - despite our scary tweezers! Many times when it had the opportunity to get away it simply wouldn’t - but rather would take part in helping us help it, like yanking the leg we would be working on to help pry it loose. It was pretty much a symphony of housefly human cooperation - and we’re quite thrilled that it all worked out!This is not the first time we’ve saved flies from certain doom, and you’d be amazed at the differing personalities they’ve each got - as evidenced by their different reactions to being offered a dish with bit of sugar water-soaked paper towel! Though at first, of course, they worry that you’re a threat, but if you move slowly and calmly they start to get used to the idea that you’re not so much a threat as a source of sweet sweet sugar. Here’s a bit of a history that we’ve enjoyed with a variety of flies that have had the good fortune to get stuck in our our flyswatter-free household:-Buzzy #1: Learned to land on our outstretched finger because there was honey to be found there!-Buzzy #2: Wouldn’t land on us, but would visit dish held out.-Buzzy #3: Wouldn’t come to the dish, but if we brought the dish to him, he’d climb on and have some.-Buzzy #4 & #5: Both flew away and wanted nothing doing with us or our sugar.-Buzzy #6: Didn’t run or fly away, but avoided the water/sugar paper towel - unless nudged with a corner of paper towel at which point he’d realize it was wet and sugary and climbed right on. This happened multiple times - he didn’t seem afraid of us, but couldn’t seem to learn that the dish was a source of food and water unless directly shown.So flies are all different, just like people. :)

Housefly surgery!

We recently saw our cat paying an unusual amount of attention to the underside of our radiator. We investigated, and discovered a fly that had become entangled in cobwebs and was about to be killed by a spider! It was buzzing & spinning frantically in tight circles. We managed to get it away from the spider before it got envenomated (Which is stealing the spider’s dinner, we know, we know! The cycle of life sucks, and we know everyone’s got to eat, but we just couldn’t sit there and listen to the terrified death throes of the fly.)

So now we’ve got a fly that’s half cocooned in webbing - it’s wing is stuck to it’s back and it’s back legs are all bundled together. Awful. We can’t leave it like that, but how to get it free without doing even more damage?

So we pulled out the tweezers and got to work. It took three stressful procedures to get it all done, but when the last bit got dislodged the fly’s wings popped into their proper positions in a very glorious ‘I’m all better now’ sort of way, it was finally free of that darned piece of cobwebbing that we’d been holding it in place with, it flew around quite vigorously, and then settled down for a big bath and some of the sugar water we kept it supplied with. Then we set the fly off into a warm, sunny, autumn afternoon!!!

What’s interesting is that the fly became much calmer the instant we got it away from the spider, and throughout the whole ordeal it figured out that we were helping it, because it would progressively let us get closer and closer without trying to evade us - despite our scary tweezers! Many times when it had the opportunity to get away it simply wouldn’t - but rather would take part in helping us help it, like yanking the leg we would be working on to help pry it loose. It was pretty much a symphony of housefly human cooperation - and we’re quite thrilled that it all worked out!

This is not the first time we’ve saved flies from certain doom, and you’d be amazed at the differing personalities they’ve each got - as evidenced by their different reactions to being offered a dish with bit of sugar water-soaked paper towel! Though at first, of course, they worry that you’re a threat, but if you move slowly and calmly they start to get used to the idea that you’re not so much a threat as a source of sweet sweet sugar. Here’s a bit of a history that we’ve enjoyed with a variety of flies that have had the good fortune to get stuck in our our flyswatter-free household:

-Buzzy #1: Learned to land on our outstretched finger because there was honey to be found there!
-Buzzy #2: Wouldn’t land on us, but would visit dish held out.
-Buzzy #3: Wouldn’t come to the dish, but if we brought the dish to him, he’d climb on and have some.
-Buzzy #4 & #5: Both flew away and wanted nothing doing with us or our sugar.
-Buzzy #6: Didn’t run or fly away, but avoided the water/sugar paper towel - unless nudged with a corner of paper towel at which point he’d realize it was wet and sugary and climbed right on. This happened multiple times - he didn’t seem afraid of us, but couldn’t seem to learn that the dish was a source of food and water unless directly shown.

So flies are all different, just like people.

:)

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Sissy, a blind quarter horse, is helped & guided by her friends - five goats and five sheep who understand her condition and never leave her side. “They round her up at feeding time and then move aside to make sure she gets to the hay, they show her where the water is and stand between her and the fence to let her know the fence is there.” (Michelle Feldstein via Reuters)

Sissy, a blind quarter horse, is helped & guided by her friends - five goats and five sheep who understand her condition and never leave her side.

“They round her up at feeding time and then move aside to make sure she gets to the hay, they show her where the water is and stand between her and the fence to let her know the fence is there.” (Michelle Feldstein via Reuters)

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