While it may seem obvious to some to teach their kids to respect animals, others out there will simply allow their kids to unknowingly torrent the animals they come into contact with.
When that is the case, it's completely unfair to blame anything that happens entirely on the animal. It's human nature to lash out if you're being used as play-thing instead of a living-thing.
This Tumblr thread dives into the topic more.
This week, two young Rocky Mountain goats have been introduced to their new home in Oregon Zoo and simply can't contain their bouncy, fluffy selves. The mountain goats are 5-month-olds — a male named Murphy and a female named Lena. Murphy and Lena are joining some adult goats Sassy and Montane in the rocky Cascade Crest habitat near the zoo's main entrance.
Amy Cutting, who oversees the zoo's Great Northwest area had this to say, "We are so happy to welcome these kids into the herd. They started scampering around their new habitat right away, and soon enough Sassy and Montane will be showing them the ropes."
Even though the young goats are very young, that haven't stopped them from mastering the art of hopping from rock to rock!
Cutting continues to talk about these goat kids, "These kids came from Olympic National Park, so we're especially grateful we can provide a home for them here. Mountain goats are a non-native species in those mountains, and it's critical for that unique ecosystem that they be removed"
All we can say after watching these adorable bouncy kids run around... man, we wish we had that energy.
Meet Tom, the dad! Or better known as Instagram's @thingsihavedrawn.
Tom transforms kid drawings of all sorts, into 3D realistic images. The imagination behind these pictures are incredible, regardless of some of them being absolutely terrifying. You cannot deny just how creative and powerful a child's imagination can be. Tom is simply bringing forth that imagination and sharing it in a different medium.
Just imagine this unusual scene at a local hospital ward: A tiny horse is standing by a bed, nuzzling the young patient's hand, while in the corridor outside, another pony is towing a laughing child along in a wheelchair.
Meet the very special miniature therapy ponies who bring joy to sick and disabled children as well as elderly patients and dementia sufferers across Scotland.
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Ella Casano is a 12-year-old girl who has been receiving intravenous (IV) infusions for ITP since the age of seven. Lately, she came up with this really brilliant idea that would make the experience less scary for other kids- the Medi Teddy. This clever invention is an adorable teddy bear that offers a friendly face to a child while hiding an IV bag in a mesh pouch in the bear's back: ""The cool thing about Medi Teddy is that it belongs to the child and they can bring it to all of their infusions. It's not thrown away or passed on to someone else. You can give it a name (mine is Bailey) and it will be your buddy during the long days at the hospital!", she told Laughing squid. Ella based the Medi Teddy on her own experience and made our heart expanded. Check out these photos on her Instagram page.
These photos sure make us miss those good old days...
A new reserch has found that millennials treat their pets as if they are their first born kid. We can totally understand why a fluffy bundle of love who's always happy to see you seems much more appealing than a crying, screaming child :)
There's something so magical about these photos. Pets bring so much happiness and warmth into our lives, these images show just some of that warmth. *Warning* this list may have you experiencing some feels! Proceed with caution!
Twitter user @aliahgeyes tweeted this coughing cat the other day and we can honestly not stop thinking about it.
Throughout time, there have been tales of young people who lost their human parents and wound up in the wild, being taken care of by other animals. Check out these 10 incredible stories below that show sometimes nature goes the extra mile to take care of their own. Via: Mandatory
Things I Have Drawn is an Instagram account where father-of-two and book author Tom Curtis shares kid's drawings from all over the world. But that's not all – he decided that it would be more fun to bring those cute, childish doodles into the real life. The result is both funny and terrifying at the same time.
Amazing things happen when kids and dogs are BFF.
