A person sits next to a dog as smoke rises from wildfires in San Marcos Sierra, in the province of Cordoba, Argentina on September 23, 2024. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A starling bathes in a fountain in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, September 19, 2024. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A man wearing traditional clothing performs acrobatics on a horse during Independence Day celebrations in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, September 17, 2024. (Photo by Matias Basualdo/AP Photo)





Members of the military hold dogs as they take part in the parade celebrating Independence Day in Mexico City, Mexico on September 16, 2024. (Photo by Raquel Cunha/Reuters)





Driver-groom Anthony Bysouth stands by shire horse George, whilst embracing Arthur, after they mowed the meadow at Kensington Palace, in London, Britain, on September 24, 2024. (Photo by Mina Kim/Reuters)





A herd of cows is led through the snow in Calfeisen valley in Vaettis, Switzerland, 14 September 2024. Early snowfall has ended the pasture season on the alps earlier than expected. (Photo by Gian Ehrenzeller/EPA)





A man carries a dog on his back as he stands along a street in Bangkok on September 18, 2024. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP Photo)





Poppy the therapy pony meets residents at King’s Court care home in Swindon, UK on September 24, 2024. Poppy, 16, and her stablemate Tinks, 17, are just 30 inches tall and bring joy to hospitals, schools and care home. (Photo by Tom Wren/South West News Service)





Geese stand on an outdoor table in a flooded neighbourhood in Ostrava, Czech Republic, Tuesday, September 17, 2024. (Photo by Darko Bandic/AP Photo)





A resident carries a dog amid smoke from fires in a forested area in the Guapulo neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday, September 24, 2024. (Photo by Carlos Noriega/AP Photo)





Passenger Maria Lujan holds her dog Maximo Decimo as she talks to an airline worker before check-in at the Jorge Newbery airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, September 19, 2024, during a workers' strike for wage increases that is affecting some flights, but not hers. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





Dogs, Django and Amber in the motorhome together in the second decade of September 2024. A young couple who were told they'd be housebound after getting two large dogs do road trips around Europe – so they can give their Dalmatians a holiday too. (Photo by Rhys Denham/Sophia Hutchinson/South West News Service)





A woman plays with a dog before a march by animal rights activists and supporters calling on Romanian authorities to observe more rigorously the current animal protection and welfare legislation, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, September 21, 2024. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





Women save a cat from floods in Szentendre, near Budapest, Hungary, as the Danube river flooded its banks on Thursday, September 19, 2024. (Photo by Denes Erdos/AP Photo)





Photo Project: Malquot is a 5 year Dugong at SeaWorld, Abu Dhabi on June 28, 2024. He was rescued in 2019. (Photo by Chris Whiteoak/The National)





A Bedouin rides a horse as a Harvest Supermoon is pictured in the background, in Rahat, southern Israel, on September 18, 2024. (Photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters)





Two-month-old baby hippo Moo Deng plays with a zookeeper in the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, Thursday, September 19, 2024. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





Jackie Leek takes her giant pet tortoise — an eight-year-old African sulcata called Mr Miyagi — on his regular walk to the Crossing Pub in Morecambe, UK on September 25, 2024. Mr Miyagi, who weighs about three stone and will eventually reach ten, also enjoys caravanning holidays. (Photo by William Lailey/South West News Service)





A cat in the study wearing a knitted hat with sensors incorporated into it in Montreal on September 19, 2024. Cats are wearing cute hats – for science. Researchers wanted to use brain scans to understand pain in felines, but found they would chew the wires with traditional electrodes. The answer was to incorporate the sensors into comfy crochet beanies. The team, including experts from University of Montreal (UdeM), wanted to create a non-invasive method for understanding how cats experience chronic pain, like that caused by osteoarthritis (OA), and how sensory stimulation might help reduce it. The study is the first report of EEG (encephalogram) recording in conscious cats using surface electrodes. (Photo by Aliénor Delsart/South West News Service)





Firefighters give water to a dog rescued during a wildfire at Arrancada village, Agueda in Aveiro on September 17, 2024. Thousands of firefighters battled wildfires in Portugal that have killed seven people and burnt more land in a matter of days than the rest of the summer combined. Raging since the weekend before worsening on September 16, the blazes have also left at least 40 people injured, including 33 firefighters, according to the latest figures from the authorities. Scientists say that fossil fuel emissions are worsening the length, frequency and intensity of heatwaves across the world. The rising temperatures are leading to longer wildfire seasons and increasing the area burnt in the flames, according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (Photo by Patrícia de Melo Moreira/AFP Photo)