Pet Care & Animal Stories

Simon the ship's cat with HMS Amethyst sailors, Plymouth 1949

Simon of HMS Amethyst: The Cat Who Earned the D...

He was not supposed to be on the ship. He was seventeen months old, severely underweight, and small enough to be hidden inside a sailor's peaked cap. The ship was...

Simon of HMS Amethyst: The Cat Who Earned the D...

He was not supposed to be on the ship. He was seventeen months old, severely underweight, and small enough to be hidden inside a sailor's peaked cap. The ship was...

Unsinkable Sam, the cat who survived three WWII shipwrecks

Unsinkable Sam: The Cat Who Survived Three WWII...

The legend says three ships sank under him in six months. Each time, he was found floating. The Royal Navy eventually stopped putting him on ships. The Bismarck — May...

Unsinkable Sam: The Cat Who Survived Three WWII...

The legend says three ships sank under him in six months. Each time, he was found floating. The Royal Navy eventually stopped putting him on ships. The Bismarck — May...

Leonhard Seppala with his sled dogs including Togo

Togo vs. Balto: The Sled Dog Who Did the Work a...

One dog ran 261 miles. The other ran 55. History remembered the wrong one. Nome, January 1925 A diphtheria outbreak hit Nome, Alaska in January 1925. The town doctor, Curtis...

Togo vs. Balto: The Sled Dog Who Did the Work a...

One dog ran 261 miles. The other ran 55. History remembered the wrong one. Nome, January 1925 A diphtheria outbreak hit Nome, Alaska in January 1925. The town doctor, Curtis...

Judy the English Pointer, WWII prisoner of war

Judy the Pointer: The Only Dog Officially Regis...

When HMS Grasshopper sank on February 14, 1942, a man named George White went back into the wreckage to find the ship's dog. He found her. She survived. Then things...

Judy the Pointer: The Only Dog Officially Regis...

When HMS Grasshopper sank on February 14, 1942, a man named George White went back into the wreckage to find the ship's dog. He found her. She survived. Then things...

Huberta the hippo on display at the Amathole Museum

Huberta the Hippo: 1,600 Kilometres Across Sout...

She walked 1,600 kilometres across South Africa over three years, crossing 122 rivers, sleeping on railway tracks, and walking through a country club garden party without stopping. Everybody loved her....

Huberta the Hippo: 1,600 Kilometres Across Sout...

She walked 1,600 kilometres across South Africa over three years, crossing 122 rivers, sleeping on railway tracks, and walking through a country club garden party without stopping. Everybody loved her....

Cher Ami the WWI carrier pigeon at the Smithsonian

Cher Ami: The Pigeon Who Flew Through a Battlef...

On October 3, 1918, 554 American soldiers were trapped in a ravine in the Argonne Forest in France. German forces had them surrounded. Their own artillery, not knowing where they...

Cher Ami: The Pigeon Who Flew Through a Battlef...

On October 3, 1918, 554 American soldiers were trapped in a ravine in the Argonne Forest in France. German forces had them surrounded. Their own artillery, not knowing where they...