Dog grabs microphone during reporter’s live hit on Russian television April 4, 2021 So many things can happen on live television and in Moscow this week, reporter Nadezda Serezhkina got interrupted by a very good dog. The… Continue Reading
Want to live longer? Get a dog, two new studies link dog ownership to longer life October 10, 2019 Dog ownership may be associated with longer life and better cardiovascular outcomes, especially for heart attack and stroke survivors who live alone. Dog ownership… Continue Reading
Meatless Monday: Viewers left stunned as baby turtle snatched and eaten by seagull on Blue Planet Live April 1, 2019 It was the day innocence died for thousands of viewers of Blue Planet. As host Liz Bonnin was talking about baby turtles and their… Continue Reading
Thursday Turtles: 1,500 exotic turtles and tortoises found duct-taped inside luggage in Manila March 7, 2019 Customs officials in Manila have seized 1,529 live exotic turtles found inside the luggage of a passenger arriving in the Phillippines from Hong Kong. … Continue Reading
Meatless Monday: Korean dish of squirming octopus raises ire of activists, defended by others January 8, 2018 In February, when PETA sent an observer into Toronto restaurants, it wasn’t to get them to dine out but to investigate how live animal… Continue Reading
Meatless Monday: Guggenheim exhibit criticized for using fighting dogs as art September 25, 2017 New York’s Guggenheim Museum will pit dogs against each other in an art exhibit that critics are calling unmistakable cruelty against animals. The three… Continue Reading
Thursday Throw Down: Real animals vs CGI ones for movie making August 3, 2017 Actor Andy Serkis who is famous for acting opposite computer animation in movies like The Hobbit and The Jungle Book says there’s no need… Continue Reading
Beauty and the Beast a reminder of why so many fairy tales are about humans and animals March 21, 2017 Jane Henderson, the books editor at the St. Louis Dispatch, had a literary critter-y take on the lasting success of why so many fairy… Continue Reading
Live Feed: April the giraffe’s calf is poking out March 20, 2017 UPDATE April 15: April has her baby! See it all here. *** UPDATE: April 9 “Our big girl seems to be moving around quite… Continue Reading
Men who fed live cat to starved dogs ordered to clean Dubai zoo by Sheikh ruler March 18, 2017 We here at Critterfiles have seen some pretty gruesome things humans do to critters. There was the recent story of the dog who had… Continue Reading
