Visit to the Dr Hadwen Trust, by Chantal D @vegsoup4thesoul I’ve long been a proponent of this wonderful organisation and so I was delighted to be invited by their Fund Raising Coordinator – Gerry to visit their HQ in Hitchin, to meet the team and to see their brand new chairty shop – the first […]
The Homing Pigeon World Show in Pictures – featured in The Guardian here. VLA RESPONSE: It’s probably not something that many people think about. In fact pigeons are often seen as vermin, full stop. But to these ‘fanciers’, they are valuable commodities that literally can earn them thousands of pounds in betting wins. We were […]
Stress is a barrier to empathy. “Previous studies have shown that the ability to feel or share someone else’s pain is not something unique to humans. Mice can feel empathy too.But in both species, empathy is stronger between those that recognise each other and all but absent between those unfamiliar with each other….” “This suggests […]
Meet Eclipse: The black Labrador who takes the bus on her own to the dog park.Owner surprised to find cat regularly catches bus. “She jumps up and sits down, and I start petting her and the guy beside me says, ‘Oh yeah, that’s that dog that rides the bus to the dog park every day, […]
How swan-derful! Trapped cygnet comforted by its mother for two days as she pines for the bird’s release. “Mr Kibble said: “It was really like watching any mum and dad try to console their child if they’d got stuck somewhere. “They never left its side and were cooing trying to comfort it until it […]