This article was originally published by One Green Planet. (By Laura Lee Cascada) We all know and love Esther the Wonder Pig, the “micro pig” who fell into the arms of Canadian couple Derek Walter and Steve Jenkins and then kept growing, and growing, and growing. At 650 pounds, today she fills Facebook, Instagram, and … Continue reading One Green Planet: How Esther the Wonder Pig Helped Save the Lives of 10 Pigs from North Carolina
(Story by Laura Lee Cascada / Photographs by Steve Byun, @chinnybuddy) This ball of fluff is Mr. Bagel. Despite how it looks, he's not a gargantuan field mouse from some alternate universe of adorable creatures with big eyes and even bigger ears. He's a chinchilla from regular old planet Earth. But before you run out … Continue reading This Little Furball Is on a Big Mission
(By Laura Lee Cascada / Photographs by Annie Blumenfeld) Meet Teddy. Four years ago, he bounded into Connecticut teen Annie Blumenfeld's life and changed it forever. Now, in 2016, Teddy spends his days watching chickens and roosters peck around the neighborhood, eagerly awaiting his next adventure with each walk and car ride. He lives a … Continue reading This Shaggy Dog Beat Heartworms–Now the Art He Inspired Is Saving Others Like Him
When I met Patchouli at Farm Sanctuary's Watkins Glen, New York shelter, home to over 500 rescued animals, in mid-2014, I was amazed that I managed to capture a photograph of him at all. As the jet-black rooster darted around visitors' feet, our tour guide shared the beginnings of his story. A shipment of chicks … Continue reading Patchouli, Rooster Reject
It was late one evening in the spring of 2015 as a carload of us--my wife, Rachel, and I, along with two friends--were making the long trip back from Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park to my parents' home in the Ka'u District halfway around the Big Island. We'd just hit a straight stretch of road outside … Continue reading The Pup from Na’alehu
