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Animal Friends Helping Each Other Out

Mr.Dog — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 01:23:49 +0000

Everyone needs a little bit of help now and then. These animal “teams” know all about cooperation, and the many joys it can bring!

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Dogs Befriend Chinchillas

Mr.Dog — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:31:39 +0000

We’ve known dogs that have roosters, goats, ducks, horses, even lions and elephants as best friends, but the dogs in this video have discovered a small, cute and fuzzy pet they just had to befriend.

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Dog Helps Baby Elephant Find Will to Live

Mr.Dog — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 23:12:53 +0000

Ellie, a baby elephant rejected by his own herd had little desire to live, but this all changed when he met his new best friend Duma, a former service and sniffer dog.

Ellie had no family and to make matters worse, he was also fighting an umbilical chord infection. Rescuers from South Africa’s Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage tried nursing the elephant back to health, and even though they succeeded in meeting the elephant’s nutritional needs, his emotional state deteriorated with each passing day.

The orphaned elephant longed for a herd, a friend, someone he could make a strong connection with, and that someone was Duma.

As soon as Ellie met Duma, the baby elephant’s life change. Now Ellie is happy, plays, runs and shows that he has something to look forward too each day – his best friend Duma, the dog.

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Rescue Dogs Get New Rescue Sibling, a Raccoon

Mr.Dog — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 00:20:17 +0000

It is not unusual to see dogs bonding with wildlife, we know of some dogs that have befriended lions, deer, dolphins, turtles and such. What’s unusual is when the wild animals start acting and believing they are dogs too. Meet Pumpkin, a rescued raccoon who has two rescue dogs, Toffee and Oreo, as siblings.

Rose Kemp lives in Nassau, Bahamas, with her rescue dogs. One day, a baby raccoon fell out of a tree in her garden and broke a leg and Kemp didn’t hesitate to help. The rescue woman wanted to look after the little mammal until the baby’s mom returned to the nest, however, the mother raccoon never got back and Pumpkin the raccoon became an orphan. Knowing the injured raccoon couldn’t fend for herself out in the yard, Kemp decided to adopt the raccoon into her pack.

Well, Pumpkin adapted very well to a life as an indoor pet. So much that she thinks she is a dog and follows Kemp and her two rescue dogs everywhere they go.

“She instantly bonded with us and our two rescue dogs,” Kemp told The Dodo. “She now thinks she is a dog. She is able to play and be rough with [Toffee and Oreo] and she respects them when they have had enough.”

The adventures of Pumpkin are documented on Instagram. Follow Pumpkin on Instagram and see more adorable pictures of the three “dogs.” Sorry, two dogs and a raccoon.

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