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Looking different doesn’t stop this Instagram pup from inspiring others

sudshr47 April 27, 2018

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Looking a little different from the crowd can be tough, even for a canine.

One fearless Instagram dog is challenging the norms of dog beauty everywhere — and has an inspiring tale to go along with his uniquely adorable face. 

Meet Beaux Tox (say it out loud for the full effect). His face looks a little funny due to a facial deformity that resulted from his mom’s overcrowded womb. But he’s a lovable doggo who, according to People, has become, “the local face of animal advocacy and pet adoption.” 

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Olympian Gus Kenworthy took selfies with an albino raccoon in South Korea

sudshr47 February 22, 2018

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Cat cafes are so 2017 — Gus Kenworthy miles ahead of us with his visit to a raccoon cafe. 

Kenworthy competed in slopestyle skiing for Team USA in Pyeongchang for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Although his events are over, the Olympian stopped in South Korea’s capital to visit Seoul’s Blind Alley, a cafe where customers can hang out with raccoons, corgis, and a capybara.  

He posted photos from his visit — complete with a cuddly albino raccoon — with the caption “they really do love trash!”

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Three Connecticut elephants were just given lawyers, and the case sways on free will

sudshr47 November 14, 2017

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A group of lawyers asked a Connecticut court on Monday to grant three traveling and working elephants “legal personhood,” a status that would set these intelligent creatures free.

The lawyers, of the Nonhuman Rights Project organization, previously attempted to get courts in New York to recognize chimpanzees as persons, but couldn’t sway the judges to accept that some intelligent animals should be given the same rights to free will as humans. Now, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a petition of habeas corpus — a report of an unlawful imprisonment — for three elephants working at the traveling Commerford Zoo, based in Connecticut. Read more…

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