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Offbeat News tagged with bonding

Hundreds of Birds Seem to Mourn Deaths of Fellow Ravens
Offbeat  (tags: ravens, electrocuted, mourning fellow ravens, bonding )

Simone
- 3 days ago - newsminer.com
Ravens have feelings, too, at least judging from an eerie scene Tuesday morning on Minnie Street in east Fairbanks. After two ravens roosting on top of a power transformer were electrocuted, hundreds of ravens showed up within a minute or two and star
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Remembering Buster Dawn
Offbeat  (tags: buster dawn, remebrance, thansgiving holidays, bonding, little dog, love )

Simone
- 4 days ago - all-creatures.org
Neighbors ask if I will adopt turkeys again this Thanksgiving. I am not sure. I think of last year's turkeys lined up at the front gate with the dogs, greeting sunset passersby on their way to the Via bluffs. I think of Buster's patience when the turkey
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Germany Transfixed By Story of Penguin's Love for Zookeeper
Offbeat  (tags: germany, love, bonding, friendship, zoo keeper, penguin )

Simone
- 5 days ago - all-creatures.org
The tale of Sandy, 14, a South African penguin, and Peter Vollbracht, 47, a zookeeper, is a saga of enduring love, separation and fidelity that has captivated Germany -- a parable for a society troubled by high divorce rates and marital breakdowns.
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Lola
Offbeat  (tags: golden labrador, love, bonding, remembering, perceptions, cancer )

Simone
- 5 days ago - all-creatures.org
Just want to share this with you. Some of you may remember Lola, my blonde lab. A few years back she had cancer and at the time I was really strapped for money. One of our list members sent me the money to get her operation. They told me to stop thanking
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Best Welcome Home EVER as Excited Pet Dog Greets Soldier Back From Afghanistan
Offbeat  (tags: international youtube hit, soldier, returning, dogs, love, bonding, welcome home )

Simone
- 9 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
A moving video showing an excited dog welcoming a soldier home from Afghanistan has become a YouTube hit. Six-year-old Gracie, a golden retriever, is seen jumping into the lap of her beloved master Lieutenant Andrew Schmidt, rolling over and wriggling
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Female Wild Horses Stick Together
Offbeat  (tags: wild mares, female horses, bonding, studies, herds )

Simone
- 13 days ago - livescience.com
Wild mares that form strong social bonds with other mares produce more foals than those that don't, researchers have found, in what may be the first documented link between "friendship" and reproductive success outside of primates. The study followed
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Your Husband or Your Crocodile? Pets V Partners Debate Goes On
Offbeat  (tags: partners, husband, wife, pets, choicing, bonding, animals )

Simone
- 35 days ago - dogmagazine.net
Several papers carried a report last week of the Australian woman who chose her pet crocodile over her husband. Though an extreme example, this preference of pets over partners isn't as uncommon as you might think
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Poodle Refuses to Leave Her Best Friend, An Injured Rottweiler
Offbeat  (tags: dogs, companions, bonding, injured, road accident, side by side, devotion, friends )

Simone
- 36 days ago - pawnation.com
They're unlikely friends, but when a 90 lbs. Rottweiler became stranded in the middle of a dark Ohio road, her tiny best friend, a 9 lbs. poodle, refused to leave her side. Veterinary assistant Jody Wetzig was working Monday night at the Lorain County
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Rottweiler Nurses Runt Piglet Abandoned By Its Mother
Offbeat  (tags: rottweiler mother, abandoned orphaned piglet, adopted, bonding )

Simone
- 44 days ago - examiner.com
Rejected by its mother, a runt piglet named Apple Sauce found solace and sustenance in the arms of Sasha, a Rottweiler who had just given birth to her own litter of puppies. "It was the last chance for the piglet," pig breeder Heidi Rhiann told BBC
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Unlikely Friends: Lioness and Oryx- VIDEO
Offbeat  (tags: unlikely friends, lioness, adopts, befriends, oryx, bonding )

Simone
- 54 days ago - ohmidog.com
Normally, a lioness that encounters an oryx kills and eats it. In 2001, though a lioness in Kenya, nicknamed Kamuniak, came across a baby oryx and, instead of eating it, adopted it.
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Hound Dog and Orangutan Video: The Latest Odd Couple
Offbeat  (tags: orangutans, dogs, unlikely friends, bonding, unusual )

Simone
- 58 days ago - content.usatoday.com
Felix and Oscar had nothing on these two friends, highlighted in "Unlikely Animal Friends." Surya, the orangutan, adopts Roscoe the hound, and now they're inseparable. They live at Tigers Wildlife Preserve in Myrtle Beach.
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This Week on TV: "Unlikely Animal Friends" 1-Hour Special on National Geographic
Offbeat  (tags: television, animals, different species, unlikely friends, bonding, friendship, animals )

Simone
- 65 days ago - examiner.com
You may have seen the YouTube video of the kitten and the crow. And maybe you've heard about the baby hippo and the tortoise. But what about the organgutan and the dog? The dog and the elephant? Or the lioness and the antelope? This hour-long
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Pictured: The Hen That Reared Ducklings and the Dog That Mothered a Piglet
Offbeat  (tags: mother dog, raised, pigs, hen raised ducklings, animals, bonding )

Simone
- 101 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Luckily for the pig, this dog's bark is worse than his bite. In a heartwarming tale from China, footage has emerged of a farm dog successfully rearing a piglet - even providing it with daily helpings of milk. China Central TV broadcast video of the dog
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A Dog's Life: Relationships Between Dogs, Owners Fall Into Three Categories
Offbeat  (tags: dogs, relationships, bonding, owners, catergories )

Simone
- 109 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Some dogs are revered or pampered, with fancy clothes and loads of affection; others work for a living. David Blouin, a cultural sociologist at Indiana University South Bend, said relationships between dogs and their owners generally fall into three
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Princess and the Pussycat - Inseparable
Offbeat  (tags: newvborn kitten, dog, surrogate mother, bonding, love )

Simone
- 109 days ago - ahscares.org
Rarely have we seen a symbiotic relationship as that between Princess and the Pussycat. From what we have gathered, a newborn kitten was rescued and Princess became the surrogate mother for this youngster. They have been together as a family for this
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