An Israeli soldier holds a dog in kibbutz Kfar Azza on Tuesday, October 10, 2023. Hamas militants overran Kfar Azza on Saturday, where many Israelis were killed and taken captive. (Photo by Erik Marmor/AP Photo)





Varvara Zagumenna, 9, pets Chelsea, a specially trained canistherapy animal, in Vcentri Hub, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, October 12, 2023. Canisterapy classes were organized by Base 4.5.0. and Innikos for children of fallen and serving Ukrainian servicemen. Canistherapy is a method of rehabilitation using the relationship between a person and a dog. (Photo by Alex Babenko/AP Photo)





“Franklin”, left and “Milo” keep their shark outfits dry in their carriage arriving with owner Stephanie Davis at the annual Cape Cod Doxie Day which played out in a steady rain at the Barnstable County (Ma.) Complex on September 30, 2023. (Photo by Steve Heaslip/Cape Cod Times via USA TODAY NETWORK)





Dachshunds Allan and Stanley turn out for Scottish Labour candidate for Rutherglen and Hamilton West Michael Shanks as he attends a polling station to cast his vote on October 05, 2023 in Rutherglen, Scotland. The by-election in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency was triggered after a successful petition to oust MP Margaret Ferrier in June 2023, following her breach of COVID-19 regulations in September 2020. (Photo by Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)





A motorcyclist checks his cell phone while carrying a dog with sunglasses on his back in Bogota, Colombia on October 12, 2023. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)





Two volunteer veterinarians place a medical catheter on the cat and prepare it for castration surgery, an effort that helps manage the increasing population of wild cats in frontline villages, on October 3, 2023 in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine. A group of Ukrainian volunteer veterinarians from Kyiv headed to the village of Tavriyske, 25 km from the Ukraine-Russia war frontline, to administer vaccines, sterilize animals, and treat diseases. Tavriyske is positioned just 15 kilometers from Orihiv, a locality that faces relentless bombardment from artillery and aviation on a daily basis. the southern Zaporizhzhia region has emerged as one of the most active fronts since Ukraine initiated its counteroffensive during the summer. However, a significant portion of this region continues to be under Russian occupation. (Photo by Libkos/Getty Images)





An ultra-Orthodox Jew prays next to a concrete separation barrier, as a rabbit runs nearby, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, Sunday, October 1, 2023. The barrier was built by Israel to secure Rachel's Tomb, Judaism's third-holiest shrine – a site frequented by Jews during the weeklong holiday to commemorate the Israelites' 40 years of wandering in the desert. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)





A lynx cub that followed a villager in the forest, is fed by a mother and her son for 2 days at the Koyulhisar district of Sivas, Turkiye on October 4, 2023. After 2 days, the lynx cub was taken under protection by the Sivas Department of Nature Conservation and National Parks teams. (Photo by Serhat Zafer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A donkey in the village wanders along the road holing up traffic in Hampshire, UK on October 9, 2023. (Photo by Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A local resident carries a cat as she passes by an apartment building damaged in the Russian rocket attack in central Kharkiv, Friday, October 6, 2023. (Photo by Alex Babenko/AP Photo)





Michael Marotz, right, and Stan Derby prepares to put a swan in a pen for medical examinations on Lake Morton during the 43rd annual swan roundup Tuesday, October 10, 2023, in Lakeland, Fla. The late Queen Elizabeth II of England gifted the original pair of swans to the city back in 1957. (Photo by Chris O'Meara/AP Photo)





Sheep with their shepherds and herd dogs return from grazing in the mountains during the autumn redyk in the village of Ochotnica Gorna, southern Poland, 07 October 2023. The traditional “Redyk” in the Tatra Mountains it is held each fall to move the flocks from their mountain pastures to their downhill winter grazing homes. (Photo by Grzegorz Momot/EPA)





Sheep wait to be passed over a fence during the Redyk, a celebration for the end of the sheep grazing season in Zawoja, Poland on September 30, 2023. Every year, in the South of Poland, shepherds from the mountain region celebrate the end of the grassing season and come down the mountains with their sheep, following folk celebrations at the villages. (Photo by Omar Marques/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Caretakers show panda cubs Rui Bao (L) and Hui Bao (R), who were born 97 days ago in South Korea, during a ceremony to reveal their names at Everland Amusement and Animal Park in Yongin on October 12, 2023. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je/AFP Photo)





A man carry his iguana as they attend an event to celebrate ahead of World Animal Day at a mall in Pasay, Metro Manila on October 1, 2023. (Photo by Jam Sta Rosa/AFP Photo)





The Australian Reptile Park has recently welcomed with open arms another little addition to their ever-growing family – a five-month-old, orphaned wombat joey aptly named Wilbur. Last week, the tiny joey was handed to the Park after a passer-by had discovered that a wombat had unfortunately been hit by a car. Seeing fluttering movements from the pouch, the rescuer found the baby wombat inside and quickly brought the joey to the Park to be cared for. The wombat joey requires round-the-clock care, including a bottle feed at 3am, as he is estimated to be only five months old. Keeper Seleena De Gelder has taken on the role of surrogate mother to the joey, providing him with the love and care he needs to thrive. When: 05 October 2023 (Photo by Australian Reptile Park/Cover Images)





Cowboys drive a herd of Texas longhorns down East Exchange Avenue in the Stockyards National Historic District of Fort Worth, Texas on October 10, 2023. The twice daily event is based on the history of from 1866 and 1890 more than four million head of cattle were driven through Fort Worth on Texas cattle drives. (Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP Photo)





A girl holds a snake as breeders display reptiles, lizards and snakes during a Reptile and Snake festival at a shopping mall in Baghdad, Iraq on October 5, 2023. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)





An agent from Mexico's National Institute of Migration (INM) pets a cat during an operation on the banks of the Rio Bravo river, the border between Mexico and the United States, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on October 5, 2023. (Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)





A child feeds a bird as he shelters with his family at a United Nations center after UNRWA said it relocated its central operations centre to the south of Gaza Strip after Israel's call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south within 24 hours, amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 13, 2023. (Photo by Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)