For around 20 years, the tiny gray fox of Cozumel was thought to be extinct. No one had confirmed a sighting on the Mexican island in over 20 years. In fact, most assumed that the little animal was gone for good. It turns out they were wrong. The fox is still out there, and a …

A Pittsburgh family came face to face with a rather strange poolside guest. They walked into their backyard and found a large albino boa constrictor stretched out by the pool, soaking up the sun. The snake wasn’t hiding or coiled to strike, though. In fact, local animal control agents later described it as “lazily lounging …

A weekly grocery run went sideways for one 79-year-old great-grandmother in England. Rita Seymour, of Hook, Hampshire, has been banned for life from every Sainsbury’s and Argos store in the UK, gas stations and parking lots included. The ban followed a dispute with staff at her local store. Seymour says the whole ordeal left her …

If you plan on doing any home DIY renovations, you might want to make sure all your pets are safely out of the way first. A Maryland family decided to cut down a tree in their yard, and things definitely didn’t go as planned. The tree fell the wrong way, crushed their fence, and very …

Beware this summer while heading out to get-togethers where you’ll be doing a lot of eating food from the grill. This is especially true this week as everyone celebrates the 4th of July, which is why we’re revising this story from earlier in June.  A backyard barbecue in Minnesota ended with a teenager in emergency …

Forget the World Cup. This coyote has some serious moves. A backyard in the San Bernardino mountains has become the unlikely home field for a coyote with a thing for soccer. For weeks, the same wild coyote has been slipping into a man’s yard to play with a soccer ball. A Ring camera caught the …

If you know cats, you know they can be nothing but stubborn at times. So one fighting off a bear really shouldn’t come as a surprise, and that’s exactly what happened. A black bear wandered into the wrong backyard in British Columbia and got run off by the last thing it expected, a house cat. …

A Virginia family has lost its year-long fight to keep a data center power line out of its backyard. This week, state regulators approved the route for new Dominion Energy transmission lines through their Ashburn neighborhood. That includes being run through the property of a woman who had planned to retire there. The decision cleared …

Priced out of buying a home in New York City, one American family did something most people only daydream about. They moved to Italy and bought a house for about $13,000. Cassandra Tresl, her husband Alex Ninman, and their young daughter left New York for a small town in Italy’s Abruzzo region. That was a …

A woman who works from home says her neighbors put a kiddie pool in the one spot guaranteed to drive her crazy, directly under her office window. The catch is that these aren’t random neighbors. They’re close friends, the sort who were in her wedding. They also have an entire acre of land to work …