A 500-pound lion named Bonedigger is best friends with Milo, a Dachshund. Bonedigger first met Milo and three other Dachshund puppies several years ago when he was just 4 weeks old.

The puppies seemed to instinctively know that Bonnedigger was mildly disabled (he suffers from a metabolic bone disease) - and they wanted to protect him, according to Joe Schreibvogel of the G.W. Exotic Animal Park in Wynnewood - Oklahoma.

A Good Samaritan was out for a stroll in Essex, England one afternoon when he noticed an abandoned crate on the roadside. He was shocked when he sees who was in it. It was full of pups! Not just one or two, it was twenty little puppies huddled up together in the crate. They were hopefully waiting for someone to bring them home. The kind passenger knew that he had to help and quickly sprang into action. He contacted the RSPCA hoping that they could help with them. As he believed, the rescue immediately sent two inspectors to collect the puppies and get them to the vet as quickly as possible.

Sian Ridley, an inspector with the RSPCA said in a press release that he thought he heard the number of puppies by a mistake. He couldn’t believe that someone had abandoned 20 puppies. “They were all quite scared and timid when we arrived and it was just heartbreaking to see them all huddled in the one cage-they looked a pitiful sight,” he said.
The vet discovered that they were probably from a few different litters. No one is exactly sure about the dogs’ breed but they think they are some kind of poodle mixes. They were all pretty small, weighing less than a bag of sugar. The vets were worried that they might be sick. Luckily most of them were actually really healthy even though they are being abandoned.

Ridley was thankful to all the passengers who stayed to help them. And for the vets who were able to take care of them over a weekend at such short notice. No one knows where they came from. Maybe they are from a puppy farm. As there were so many of them, the rescuers decided to name them according to alphabetical order. They were named, Albert, Boris, Dylon, Elenor, Freddie, Guinevere, hank, Irene, Jeremiah, Kaleb, Luna, Morris, Nevel, Oliver, Peter, Quinton, Rupert, and Saffron. They seemed to age from 6-8 weeks and are currently growing into themselves and learning to be in playful puppy life.

Many of them have already been offered homes by members of the vet staff. They are all currently in foster homes and will head off to their forever homes whenever they are ready as grown pups. Everyone who was involved in rescuing them was shocked when they heard how many they are. Luckily they were found and will go to have wonderful lives with amazing families.

It is so irresponsible and cruel abandoning these much tiny puppies. If you can’t treat your pets well, it is better to ask for help before things get so desperate.

Of all the animals in the world, birds have the most fascinating ways to impress their mates during the breeding season. From bizarre rituals to spectacular dances, birds definitely know how to impress their soul mates. But when it comes to some of the rarest bird species on Earth, things are nothing short of sensational.

In a heartwarming footage, filmmakers Paula and Michael Webster have managed to capture on camera a hooded grebes couple during their mating, and they haven’t been disappointed. A critically endangered species, the hooded grebes count less than a thousand individuals. The elusive birds live on the remote plateaus of Patagonia, which make them very difficult to spot. However, when the filmmakers decided to pay them a visit, they had the sweetest surprise.

Start Monday morning right - by watching the hooded grebe's mating dance. pic.twitter.com/K7Ago6TeO8

— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) August 7, 2017

The two are among the very few people on Earth that witnessed the hooded grebes mating ritual, and the first ones that caught on tape. The film, which Paula and Michael named Tango in the Wind (given that Argentina is the place where the tango was born) shows a hooded grebe female that finally found the love of her life. Shortly after the two birds met, they bring to life a fascinating dance of love.

“This world-first footage reveals the Hooded Grebe has a courtship dance as passionate as the tango,” Paula Webster said. You can watch the spectacular dance, here:

 An orphaned baby kangaroo is winning the hearts of the Internet after a video of the joey hopping head-first inside a cop’s tshirt was posted online.

The 4-month-old joey named Cujoe was orphaned after his mother was killed in Western Australia.

He was pulled from his mother’s pouch and handed over to police in the small town of Cue, several hundred miles northeast of Perth.

Constable Scott Mason, who’s just become a father himself, is looking after the baby ‘roo.

Meet Lili (grey) and Renley (ginger) – two adorable kittens that can’t stop snuggling in their favorite spot – a bed perched on top of a cat condo.

Ever since they were adopted, this bed was their favorite napping spot. Now that they’ve gotten bigger, they’ve obviously outgrown their beloved cuddle bed, but that doesn’t stop them! They can still squeeze in and cuddle. “Renley is usually the boss, so when he wants to cuddle – they cuddle.

When he was little he used to meow and look for Lili if she wasn’t in the same room,” the kitties’ owner told Bored Panda. How cute!