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When student Gemma Holdway found little Vixey abandoned on her family’s farm, she brought the two-day-old fox cub into their home. Vixey became so attached to Gemma that she ended up becoming a beloved family pet, and is even best friends with Gemma’s labrador.
Cara Sue Achterberg was never planning to be a doggie foster mum to 136 dogs. But after losing her beloved dog Lucy, Cara and her husband started fostering dogs in the hope of finding “their” dog. But after realising how many dogs need help while waiting to find “forever homes”, the couple decided to keep on fostering and helping the animals, who often come to them neglected or sick.
A polar bear cub was seen taking its first steps inside an enclosure at Tierpark Berlin on 22 January 2019, over seven weeks after its birth.
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The Duchess of Sussex laughed off the comments made while she was being introduced to pensioners who have benefited from Mayhew's animal therapy programme. Meghan has recently become patron of the charity, which helps improve the lives of cats and dogs in the UK and abroad.
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Zookeepers have started the week-long task of counting the almost 20,000 animals at the zoo. London Zoo is home to almost 700 species and the data will be used by conservation and breeding programmes around the world.