Fans of Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl know the annual sporting event for its clumsy, energetic puppies who jump, run and flop around until they pass out from exhaustion. But there’s another part of Puppy Bowl that happens off the turf: to help the joy animals bring us all materialize into forever homes, Animal Planet harnesses the excitement shared by Puppy Bowl fans year round and brings that energy to animal…
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Think You Have the Luckiest Pet? Tell Us About It!
Working with Petfinder can be bittersweet- while it’s always terrible to think about the amazing pets waiting to find their fur-ever homes, it’s equally moving to hear stories of lucky pets who are rescued from terrible conditions only to become a loved and treasured member of a family. Do you have one of these lucky pets? Petfinder wants to hear about it! We are searching for the Luckiest Pet of 2013, so…
First Sharks, Then Penguins and Now Kittens. Animal Planet’s ‘Kitten Cam’ Is Here!
Here at Discovery, we’ve been buzzing for a while about the company’s next live animal cam, after great success with Discovery Channel’s Shark Cam and Penguin Cam. Well, brace yourself for something that can only be described by two words: Too Cute! Animal Planet’s Kitten Cam is live now on AnimalPlanet.com…and just what you needed to prepare for the return of Too Cute!face on Saturday, October 13 at 8pm ET/PT…
June is Adopt-a-Shelter-Cat Month: Find Your Purrrr-fect Pet!
Today’s guest blog post is from Samantha Piccirillo, an undergraduate student at University of Maryland and an intern with the Digital Communications & Social Media team at Discovery Communications. I can’t be the only one who has a huge soft spot for adorable kittens, right? Ever since my family adopted my cat, Tiger, who we found through Petfinder, I’ve been so excited to spread the word about Adopt-a-Shelter-Cat Month. Five…
TLC’s ‘Obese and Expecting’ & ‘Birth Moms’ Show Different Sides of Pregnancy
While pregnancy is often an exciting and happy time, tonight, TLC is giving us a glimpse into the more complicated side of expecting a baby. Obese and Expecting (at 9pm ET/PT tonight) highlights the risks associated with being severely overweight while carrying a baby. In a truly gut-wrenching scene, the doctors attempt to give a 350-pound woman an epidural as she goes into labor. The doctors spend over 45 minutes…