A truck headed to a slaughterhouse overturned yesterday, and a dozen cows broke free and made a run for it! Of course they'll all be caught and euthanized soon, so leave that part out when you tell the kids. [AP]

Gunner—a bomb-sniffing yellow Lab with the Marines in Afghanistan—has canine post-traumatic stress disorder. He can't sniff for bombs because every loud sound makes him run and hide. Sad, scared boy. WAR HURTS DOGS. RECONSIDER, AMERICA. [WSJ. Pic via]

A tiny baby kangaroo named Skippy was abandoned by his mother in a Louisiana wildlife center, but a lady raised him herself and he's just fine. Skippy's now chief marketing officer of Procter & Gamble. [Pic of similar organism: AP]