A dog that lost one of its legs to cancer has rescued a stranded baby otter from an icy cold river in Minnesota. The incident occurred on Easter Sunday, when the dog's owner, Cleo Young, and her ...

The life of a wildlife rehabilitation specialist is not an easy one. Every day they are confronted with tragic situations, for which they have to make difficult and sometimes painful choices. For some ...

"He came to shore, and he had something in his mouth, and it turned out to be a very tiny otter," the dog’s owner Cleo Young said Stephanie Wenger is a TV Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She joined the ...

LAKELAND, Minn. (WCCO) - A Lakeland dog is being hailed a hero. The goldendoodle named Gus rescued a tiny baby otter in the St. Croix River. The Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Roseville treated the ...

A baby otter was rescued by a three-legged dog with cancer in Minnesota. Screengrab from Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota (WRC) Gus the Goldendoodle hadn’t swam since he lost a leg to ...

For a six-week-old orphaned sea otter, life is nothing but playtime—even when you can barely keep your eyes open. This adorable fur ball was found last month on the coast of British Columbia, either ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Three otter pups were born at the Virginia Zoo at the end of August, the Zoo said in a release. Parents Jilin and Elbe, who came to the Zoo in 2024 on a breeding recommendation from the ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (WTNH) — This is some otter-ly adorable news: the Connecticut Beardsley Zoo is welcoming the birth of four North American river otter pups. On March 23, after a two-month gestation ...

LAKELAND, Minn. (WCCO) — A dog from Lakeland, Minnesota, is being hailed a hero. A goldendoodle named Gus rescued a tiny baby otter in the St. Croix River. The Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in ...

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