Marine Mammals of Maine plans to transfer the seal, found last week on Scarborough Beach, to a long-term care facility in Massachusetts on Tuesday.
Animals
Animal Tales: Pets must deal with having owners home
Endless games of fetch. Popping in on Zoom classes. Annoying kids being annoying. It’s a dog’s (and cat’s and lizard’s) life when the family is home all day, every day.
Animal Tales: Pets must deal with having owners home
Endless games of fetch. Popping in on Zoom classes. Annoying kids being annoying. It’s a dog’s (and cat’s and lizard’s) life when the family is home all day, every day.
To lift spirits, Animal Refuge League holds a ‘hootenanny’ drive-by parade. See the video.
About 50 staff members and volunteers of the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland dressed in costumes and lined the driveway and street for a drive-by parade party Thursday at the Westbrook headquarters. Typically during school vacation week, the shelter is full of students who are visiting with their families or attending their vacation […]
With traffic down in Maine, wildlife hospitals seeing decline in injured animals
But a wildlife biologist cautions that it’s difficult to draw conclusions from one month’s worth of data.
House-bound animal lovers making room for foster pets
With nowhere to go and time on their hands during the outbreak, more people are offering to temporarily take in animals from shelters in Maine and nationwide.
Idexx tested thousands of cats and dogs for coronavirus. None had it.
The Westbrook-based veterinary diagnostics firm says the tests confirm earlier assessments that pets cannot contract the disease.
Sanford police warn dog owners to pick up waste or face fines
Police say the fine for not cleaning up after your dog could be as high as $250.
Volunteers get lesson in sleeping over with Waterville shelter dogs for national study
Members of the Waterville area community have an opportunity to host a canine overnight to determine whether a shelter dog would be a good fit in the home.
Orphaned albino elephant recovers from poacher’s snare
The 4-month-old elephant was found badly dehydrated in South Africa’s Kruger National Park days after hitting the sharp wire snare.