Animals

Chetz the dog, wounded in Iranian strike during Operation Rising Lion, learns to walk again

“At first, I'd have given him a low chance [of survival], but the more I got to know him, I saw he wanted to. He wants to live, he wants to fight. So let’s give him that chance,” his vet said.

|BySHIR PERETS
Chetz the dog and Dr. Talia Adler.
Larry the cat at Number 10 Downing Street on June 22, 2026 in London, England.

Larry the cat, chief mouser of Downing Street, outlasts sixth UK prime minister as Starmer resigns

Larry’s tenure began after multiple rat sightings on the steps of 10 Downing Street in early 2011, causing a "pro-cat faction" within Downing Street to lobby for an expert to be brought in.

|BySHIR PERETS
A man holds a dog whilst walking along a street in Shanghai on March 25, 2026.

New kind of school: China's dog owners splurge on preschools to pamper beloved pets

As declining birth rates alter lifestyles, pets are increasingly treated as members of the family, driving growth in higher-value services such as daycare, grooming, and training.

|ByREUTERS
Paige the elephant at Texas Republican party’s annual convention, June 12, 2026.

Bad 'Pee-R': Elephant in the room urinates on Republican convention floor, sparking condemnations

Paige, an African elephant, was paraded through the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston after Governor Greg Abbott’s keynote speech, and was seen wearing a large banner supporting Abbott.

|BySHIR PERETS

Runaway camel rescued by Ukrainian army after escape from Russian forces - report

The seven foot tall camel was recorded traipsing behind a white pick-up truck filled with Ukrainian soldiers.

NOVEMBER 7, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Illustrative image of a camel in Israel.

Rare wolf spider not seen since 1985 rediscovered on remote nature reserve

The last recorded sighting of the spider in the UK was in the National Trust’s Newtown nature reserve on the Isle of Wight in 1985.

NOVEMBER 6, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
The White-Knuckled Wolf Spider found at Newtown Nature Reserve in autumn 2025.

Monkey business: Authorities hunt for missing monkey after truck carrying primates overturns

Law enforcement shared that the truck’s driver warned them the monkeys “were dangerous” and “posed a threat to humans.”

NOVEMBER 4, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rhesus macaque monkeys hang from their cage at the Tulane National Primate Research Center, where the focus of study has shifted to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Covington, Louisiana, U.S., May 14, 2021.

Israeli scientists discover feline herpes can be treated with human coldsore medication

Treatment of FHV-1 ocular disease is challenging; until now, it has been treated less successfully with a pill, but it had to be forced on cats, and they didn’t like it.

NOVEMBER 2, 2025ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
CATS TREATED successfully with Fenlips cream after FHV-1 infection.

Haifa beaches to reopen Saturday after sightings of rare whale shark

At adulthood, the species can reach 12–14 metres and weigh more than 20 tonnes, making it the largest fish on Earth.

OCTOBER 31, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Whale shark swimming. (illustration)

Honoring 'The Last Samurai': Fallen soldier Adi Tzur remembered with new home for abandoned dogs

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS: After St.-Sgt. Adi Tzur was killed defending Kibbutz Kissufim on October 7, The Magic House, a shelter helping stray and abused dogs find homes, was founded in his honor.

OCTOBER 31, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
NOTWITHSTANDING THE warmth and support surrounding The Magic House, adoptions and donations have dropped sharply, even as more dogs are being abandoned. In a typical year, Lives of Others manages to place around 250 dogs in homes. This year, that number fell by more than half, to just 120.

​​Illegal cockfighting ring broken up by Israel Police, 150 cockerels rescued

The territorial animals were forced to fight each other while patrons gambled on who the winner would be.

OCTOBER 27, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Chickens are seen in cages to be used as game cocks in illegal cockfights in Israel.

New scans challenge the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted giant animals to extinction

A study in Royal Society Open Science by Professor Mike Archer shows no evidence that humans hunted or butchered megafauna in the fossil record.

OCTOBER 22, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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How Taylor Swift's vintage tee choice is helping to save orphaned, wounded sea otters

Averaging $100,000 in sales every 15 minutes, the successful fundraiser collected funds to help injured and orphaned otters.

OCTOBER 21, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
A person wears a sea otter T-shirt, originally produced in the 1990s by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, recently popularized by Taylor Swift and now featured in a fundraiser for the aquarium, in Monterey, California, U.S., October 17, 2025

Polar bears take over abandoned research station in Russian Arctic

Scientists left the research station, which is in an abandoned village, soon after the Soviet Union's collapse over three decades ago.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2025ByREUTERS
A polar bear reacts at the abandoned Soviet-era research station on Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea, in Russia's far northeast, September 14, 2025, in this still image taken from a drone video.