Each year, 500,000 pets undergo from smoke inhalation and forty,000 die because of house fires, according to the National Fire Protection Association. Hunters shot and killed a record number of Yellowstone National Park’s famend gray wolves that had roamed from the park in current months. A “hero” rat named Magawa, who sniffed out over a hundred land mines in Cambodia and saved countless lives in the process, has died. On what would have been Betty White’s 100th birthday, Sarasota-based artist Alexis ‘Lipstick Lex’ Fraser started auctioning off a portrait of the actress that was painted using only lipstick. Wildlife rescuers in Bradenton Beach got here to assistance from a raccoon who managed to get himself very, very stuck — in a automotive engine block. Three beloved, family-owned horses have died in succession in Hillsborough County, apparently because of poisoning.

It’s nonetheless not clear what quantity of canine and cats have …