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Embed from Getty ImagesOne may have read news accounts that contend of a recent study of cats’ and dogs’ neurons suggests dogs are more intelligent. News headline may suggest that, but in fact, the actual study doesn’t draw that conclusion for the results: Dog people are gloating this week amid widespread reports that a recent study found dogs to be “smarter” than…

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  Happy #selfiesunday! Did you know #cheetahs have ~2,000 round or oval spots that cover their bodies, but unique patterns? pic.twitter.com/yqlPJOFAZu — PantheraCats (@PantheraCats) October 1, 2017

A vet pulled out ALL the stops to let this cat walk again pic.twitter.com/IodiUVjCJC — The Dodo (@dodo) October 30, 2017

This rescued leopard just celebrated his 25th birthday — with a big party! (via @BigCatRescue) pic.twitter.com/RqySGHx11Y — The Dodo (@dodo) October 23, 2017

Romans and Vikings took the cat revolution by storm — this is how they spread across the globe pic.twitter.com/9cJEw00ZRq — Business Insider (@businessinsider) September 29, 2017

Stroke the Lion it’ll be fine they said! Here’s @scottbaldwin2 petting a lion like it’s a pet cat! pic.twitter.com/Y95FObGeJ5 — Andy Goode (@AndyGoode10) September 29, 2017 Welsh rugby player Scott Baldwin extended an invitation, one that the lion predictably accepted: Coach Steve Tandy had no sympathy for his player, suggesting Baldwin had ignored instruction and…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Anchorage resident Tim Newton awoke to the sound of something running across his deck in the area of Flattop, last Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. So naturally, he went to check it out. Family of lynx on deck of Anchorage resident (photo Courtesy of Tim Newton Photography) “I crept over to the…

Here’s a story with a happy ending: When residents of a neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, heard tiny meows coming from behind an abandoned house, they knew just what to do. Judy Obregon, founder of a local animal rescue called The Abandoned Ones (TAO), routinely rescues abandoned dogs and needy strays in the area. The people who heard the…

LOS ANGELES — They are brought into shelters in crates, boxes and flower pots at this time of the year: Tiny, mewing kittens with eyes barely open, with pink, toothless mouths — and usually with no mother to nurse them. And here’s what it takes to keep them alive: people to hand-feed formula through a…