BEARSCARE

Writing for this website is a true joy. Usually. But, along with writing about great animal-related events comes the responsibiity of covering the tragedies. With over 14,000 site views, it is my sad duty to report that Knut’s loving keeper has died.

No one knows the cause of death yet and we should all just take time to mourn and remember. And we can’t blame Knut-it’s highly unlikely he had anything to do with it and he’s mourning too.

Here’s the story on CNN.

RIP Doerflein.

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I have nothing to add.

This one has been up at one of my anonymous news sources for quite a while now so I felt that I should mention it just for the of completeness. This dog, Buddy–real creative, was trained by his owner to bite a telephone if he (the owner) has a seizure. Well, he did and so he did. YAWN.

Peep the video here if you want

**No images of Buddy were available, so this picture from Wikipedia is the best I could do. It looks a lot like Buddy, though.

Today my mom discovered the most terrifying spider. My wife took the picture below of it. If anyone knows what this beast is, please let me know. We’re really worried.

Stop what you’re doing and go here now. I found this article on CNN and am utterly stunned. I would write more, but I’m going to go look into the mirror and contemplate my own color.