Articles: Animal Stories

Petuna is a dog who lives in Springfield, who’s home is near a nuclear plant. Her puppies were born last week – only it’s peculiar about one of those puppies; he has flippers like a sea lion and can swim underwater. It’s turns out that experts feel the father is a seal. And one more…

So a moose walks into a hospital? No punch line, this really just happened at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage. The entire visit was caught on video by employee Stephanie Hupton. The moose got inside through doors that were stuck open because of extreme cold in Anchorage, where temperatures hovered around zero at the time,…

In Mayberry, everyone loved Aunt Bee. By all accounts actress Frances Bavier had a love/hate relationship with her recurring character on The Andy Giffith Show and Mayberry RFD. After working with the likes of Henry Fonda and Bette Davis, and in Broadway shows, she apparently didn’t love being typecast as doting Aunt Bee. She thought…

I love being on WGN radio with Bill Leff and Wendy Snyder (listen to here), first talking about the grain free diets. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine has issued a vague warning about dogs eating grain free diets, and for some dogs their odds increase of suffering dilated cardiomyopathy (a…

Gorillas in the Mist, a 1988 film starring Sigourney Weaver, was about the life of Dr. Dian Fossey. Today, 50 years after she began to study gorillas, her memory is being honored via continued conservation of her beloved great apes. Listen to this Steve Dale’s Other World WGNPlus podcast as I speak with Dr. Tara Stoinski, CEO/president and chief scientific…

Earthwatch Magazine 1986Click here to view the PDF

Jane Goodall talks about Roots & Shoots with Steve

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