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When the vet told me what needed to be done, I brought my dog home and held him the whole time. We spent some time together, and I said prayers for him. The vet administered the shot and he passed while lying under his favorite tree in my arms.

'Heartbroken' vet reveals what pets do in the final moments when they're put down A "broken-hearted" vet has revealed how frightened pets search for their owners who have chosen to leave the room when they are put down. In a viral social media post, the anonymous vet wrote that animals “don’t understand why you left them” in their dying moments. “I beg you DO NOT LEAVE ...

Fascinating

! We're getting our spook on today with hauntingly beautiful photography. This image by Tom Kennedy has a gothic vibe, but the bird behaviour depicted is fascinating too.

Tom saw the rook as he glanced out of his living room window. Wings spread, the bird was using the neighbour’s chimney pot to smoke bathe. Realising the opportunity – and knowing the heat and smoke would only allow the rook to remain for a few minutes – he quickly took his photograph before leaving it to enjoy its smoky bath.

Rooks are incredibly intelligent creatures and smoke bathing is likely to be a learned behaviour, rather than instinct. The smoke helps the birds to fumigate their feathers, ridding them of irritating parasites such as lice, mites and ticks. The related jackdaw has even been seen fumigating itself over smouldering cigarette ends.

Discover more stories of animal behaviour in the exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London, open now: http://bit.ly/WPY-exhibition-open

shameful.

China to displace 5,000 Tibetan Buddhist monastics; Opposing petition... China says the iconic monastery needs "ideological guidance." 5,000 monks and nuns face eviction.