Chewy is our featured pooch this week. He’s a tricolor hound that the shelter estimates to be about four years old. Chewy likes to talk and as a hound, he’s quite vocal. He is very fun, loving, curious, and playful. The shelter staff is getting to know him, and he truly enjoys being around people…… read more »
A guy in Virginia can finally move out of his parents’ basement after a lottery ticket from his dad won him $1,000 a week for life. He ended up taking the lump sum of $1 million. The guy and his wife had been living with his parents since their wedding in April. The dad joked…… read more »
This morning, to celebrate the start of the 2024-25 school year, the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled an officially licensed North Carolina Tar Heels Bobblehead featuring North Carolina’s live mascot Rameses XXII. The officially licensed bobbleheads are being produced by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, an official licensee of…… read more »
Random people in Corpus Christi, Texas helped animal control catch a loose pig on Monday. They’d been trying to catch it since Sunday morning, but it kept getting away. People driving by saw them chasing it and joined in. The pig eventually ran out of steam and gave up. They’re trying to track down the…… read more »
For such a “rare” thing, we sure have seen a lot of these lately: A supermarket in Southampton, New York got a batch of lobsters, including an orange one that looked pre-cooked. So they decided to release it back into the ocean. The chances of an orange lobster are supposedly 1 in 30 million………… A…… read more »
On August 25th, cops in Wisconsin used a thermal imaging drone to help find a three-year-old kid who got lost in a 100-acre cornfield. He told them he ran into the field while chasing a cat……………….If you haven’t seen it, check out the video of the Pittsburgh weatherman who recorded his daughter on every first…… read more »
This is Staples! He’s a 2.5 year old pit bull who is neutered, up to date on vaccines, and is housebroken. Staples came to the shelter as a stray on 9/20/23 after being hit by a car. The shelter medically cared for him and had him fixed up, with the help of a very generous public…… read more »
A 24-year-old guy in the U.K. lost over 230 pounds to help his sister get a new kidney. At 437 pounds, he was too heavy to donate, so he changed his diet, started exercising, and got down to 204. He’s not a match with his sister, so he can’t give her his kidney directly. But…… read more »
A wedding ring lost in 1963 just turned up 61 years later. Glenn Gregory, a Kentucky man, lost it on his farm, near a tree that he planted with his wife Barbara right after they got married. They looked and looked, but never found it. Sadly, Glenn passed away in December. Barbara had him buried…… read more »
America’s National Parks just got their biggest single donation ever . . . $100 MILLION from the Lilly Endowment, one of the world’s largest private charity foundations. The National Park Foundation plans to announce where the first round of money is going later this year, but called the donation “transformative.” All the money will be…… read more »