The story began last year when this naughty doggy jumped into the car of Bill Shaver, who had forgotten to close the back door of the car when he rushed to the bathroom at a gas station. 

 Although his wife was sitting in the front of the car, the dog quickly climbed up and curled up in the back seat as if she knew the woman all her life. The couple was returning from a fishing trip in the state of Missouri. They decided to make a stop and that’s when the dog appeared. 

When they noticed that she was not thinking of getting off and was approaching to be petted, they decided to take her to a vet. The doctors bathed and examined her, where they told the family that the animal showed signs of struggle and wounds caused by the presence of ticks and other infections, indicating that it clearly had no other owners or had run away from home. The couple decided to give her all the support she needed to recover her health, so they drove her home. 

She quickly adapted and began to play in the yard because she was already determined to stay with them. 

The couple adopted her and named her River. River now enjoys a life full of friends, love and pampering, something she undoubtedly always deserved. Source

As if that wasn’t enough, they really liked their lawn and decided to spend the day there. The youngsters were trying out everything and when they decided the area was safe, they huddled together and took a nap. At one point, their mother fed them. 

Rydstrom photographed the family from inside their house, and when they left, he uploaded the photos to the internet. They went viral right away, showing that people needed to see something so innocent and adorable in these difficult times. When Rydstrom saw the moose and raised the blinds to get a better look, the animals didn’t even notice. 

“I went to get the Flat Stanley my cousins sent me from Iowa. I promised them and their school that I would take a picture of Flat Stanley with the moose in my yard, but in the three months that I had been working at home, I wasn’t home when the moose came, which is very common. I’d even taken it on excursions, but so far I hadn’t had any luck with pictures of moose.” 

  “I took the pictures of the moose with Flat Stanley, and a few without him, and then I went to work. I really thought the moose would go away at some point, but every time I looked, they were still there. I could see them directly from my work area. I was very distracted and had fun while editing videos of my work, with the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra. 

During the day, while the moose changed places, or took walks, I went back to the window or looked out the door to take more pictures of them. They didn’t listen to me most of the time (although their ears were up most of the time, so they were obviously alert)”. The moose were in the Rydstrom garden most of the day, from before 9 am until almost 7 pm. 

If he had made videos earlier, you would have seen that the particular mother was breathing heavily. They needed to rest, and I think they found it safe to do so here in our yard.” Rydstrom was right not to go out and take pictures of the moose family that visited him. They’re usually not aggressive, but they can become incredibly dangerous when provoked. A female moose will not think twice about attacking a person if she thinks they are threatening her young. “As the elk family came and went from the garden, they nibbled on plants, and in the case of the young ones, on patio furniture and garden decorations, and on the neighbor too, just like babies, putting everything in their mouths. 

In fact, the neighbor started turning the decorative garden lights on and off, trying to scare the youngsters, who were trying to eat a light bulb, afraid that the glass in their mouth would break and they would hurt themselves.” Source

It is actually up to us as individuals if we make ourselves trustworthy. The same goes for animals who know the people they can trust. 

Their behavior towards us is a guide on how to react towards them in return. A mother cow named Freser has just given birth to her first and last baby calf, and she is very grateful to Ismael who helped her during the birth process. Due to unstable health conditions, Freser faced difficulties while giving birth. Ismael assured Freser and did his best to put her at ease through the process. 

 Freser repays his help through affection and kissing him. When the birth process was over, Freser started to cry. Yes, believe it or not, the mother cow kept crying, tears falling on the sides of her face. At that time, her health did not show any improvements. Freser’s condition was particularly weak after giving birth to her daughter, Savi. She could no longer stand up after giving birth. Even during the birth process, the doctor could not find any bleeding. 

He noticed that Freser was having trouble during the process so he had to reach into her uterus to pull out the calf, still noticing that there was no bleeding. Freser started to cry, maybe she knew there was something wrong. After the baby came and was safe, Freser kept kissing Ismael, as though she was expressing her gratitude. 

“Take good care of my daughter, trust you!” This was her final “goodbye.” She was transferred to another place, leaving her daughter, Savi, and Ismael behind. 

 Freser was assured that little Savi will be well cared for by Ismael. The next day, after giving birth, Freser passed away. She was at peace. From then on, Ishmael kept his promise to Freser. Ishmael now takes good care of Savi, along with other cows and bulls at Fundacion Santuario Gaia (Gaia Sanctuary Foundation). 

 You may watch the video of Freser, her daughter Savi, and Ismael here.

 Here is another video of Freser’s story before she passed:

 
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 However, there was local lore that said it still remained alive, yet no one could find one in 30 years – not even a dead specimen. But the good news is that it’s been spotted! 

As research reported in Nature Ecology and Evolution, the borderline-apocryphal silver back chevrotain, also known as the Vietnam mouse-deer, has finally been spotted in the wild. However, due to the prevalence of snare hunting in the area – wire traps that are “barbaric” as described by a CNN report – the exact location is being kept very tight-lipped. 

 However, the sighting is an important one, mostly because a live one has never been spotted. It required a lot of field work, even to figure out where to start looking. Andrew Tilker, Asian species officer at Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC), said to Popular Mechanics:

So Tilker and An Nguyen – a field biologist affiliated with GWC – along with other collaborators set off to find it. 

They spoke with several locals in what they believed to be the range of the chevrotain in order to find a good potential spot. Eventually, they settled near Nha Trang. 

  “After I interviewed local people, we sent the team to the area where they’d seen the species and set up cameras,” Nguyen said. The cameras were set up in November 2017. After that, the team waited. And the wait was a bit of a long one. That April, when they went to retrieve the cameras, their work paid off. On camera was the silver-back chevrotain, with 72 “events” in all, although it was difficult to determine how many individuals were represented in those events. 

 Having correctly guessed the area in which to look, the team then set up a more intensive fleet of camera “traps” in the area, which resulted in another 208 events – which was described as one hour period during which one or more was spotted. 

The markings in these sightings were the same as the previously captured specimen on camera. From these images, they were able to glean some information. Firstly, it seems to be that the chevrotain is active during the day. And secondly, it seems that more often than not, they’re pretty solitary. 

 Despite the sightings, the team still doesn’t know much else about the small deer. 

For example, the exact population is unknown. This study only offers proof that the species is alive so far in only one area of their historic range. 

As deforestation has taken place in some of the believed-range since the first specimens were taken in 1910, it’s possible that the deer species only exists in isolated pockets – and this can pose a threat to the entire population of species. 

  “Ultimately we want to understand how threatened or not the species is, and before we can assess its conservation status we need to know more,” Tilker says. 

 The chevrotain is not the first animal that has “disappeared” from the scientific world, only to be “refound.” There is a whole group of species called “Lazarus taxon” that was discovered alive after only being known as fossil records. A perfect example of this is the coelacanth, which was a fish that the western world only ever knew as existing in the fossil records. 

Then, in 1938, a live specimen was discovered, thus marking a 66 million year gap between when it was believed to have gone extinct and when it was “discovered.” And there are other examples of species in modern times that are believed to have gone extinct only to reappear. 

The Fernandina Island Galápagos tortoise was last spotted in 1906, believing to have gone extinct – until a live female was reported earlier this year.

   

 Southeast Asia also has several species that have come to the attention of the scientific world after decades, due to geographical isolation and other factors. 

For example, the giant muntjac wasn’t officially written into scientific literature until 1994, just two years after the saola was announced. 

 So it seems that the natural world would still have some surprises in store for us. However, that by no means suggests that we should be a lack of conservation effort. 

Yes, nature is incredible for its way of taking care of itself but we must do everything we can to help it along.