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The Advertiser
6 hours ago
- Climate
- The Advertiser
Playing in the snow: a taste of winter wonderland for Aussie Ark animals
SNOW dusted across the Barrington Tops on Monday afternoon, turning the Aussie Ark wildlife sanctuary into a winter wonderland for its animals. Hand-raised rufous bettong, Buttercup, had a quick play in the alpine conditions before she and Parma Wallaby, Petey, were moved into indoor enclosures where they could stay warm and protected. Aussie Ark operations manager Dean Reid said while the snow wasn't deep, the strong winds and steady flurries created dramatic, alpine-like conditions that lasted well into the evening. He said the Tasmanian devils took it all in stride, relishing the icy change - a climate not unlike their native Tasmania. Just last week the sanctuary welcomed 10 new, healthy Tassie devil joeys. "A dusting of snow like this is exactly what our Tasmanian devils love; they come alive in these conditions," he said. "Watching them explore and enjoy the snow is a special reminder of how well-adapted they are to this environment." Mr Reid said rangers prepared and fed animals for a comfortable night ahead and dry straw was added to provide warm bedding where needed. "Dry straw gives the animals extra insulation against the cold. It was a calm, coordinated response from a team experienced in managing wildlife through the extremes of the Australian bush," he said. The snowfall followed severe flooding that affected the sanctuary just weeks earlier. National parks, including the Barrington Tops, remain closed until further notice. The public is urged to avoid affected areas. Gale-force winds swept across the Hunter over the King's Birthday long weekend, bringing icy temperatures and damaging weather. SNOW dusted across the Barrington Tops on Monday afternoon, turning the Aussie Ark wildlife sanctuary into a winter wonderland for its animals. Hand-raised rufous bettong, Buttercup, had a quick play in the alpine conditions before she and Parma Wallaby, Petey, were moved into indoor enclosures where they could stay warm and protected. Aussie Ark operations manager Dean Reid said while the snow wasn't deep, the strong winds and steady flurries created dramatic, alpine-like conditions that lasted well into the evening. He said the Tasmanian devils took it all in stride, relishing the icy change - a climate not unlike their native Tasmania. Just last week the sanctuary welcomed 10 new, healthy Tassie devil joeys. "A dusting of snow like this is exactly what our Tasmanian devils love; they come alive in these conditions," he said. "Watching them explore and enjoy the snow is a special reminder of how well-adapted they are to this environment." Mr Reid said rangers prepared and fed animals for a comfortable night ahead and dry straw was added to provide warm bedding where needed. "Dry straw gives the animals extra insulation against the cold. It was a calm, coordinated response from a team experienced in managing wildlife through the extremes of the Australian bush," he said. The snowfall followed severe flooding that affected the sanctuary just weeks earlier. National parks, including the Barrington Tops, remain closed until further notice. The public is urged to avoid affected areas. Gale-force winds swept across the Hunter over the King's Birthday long weekend, bringing icy temperatures and damaging weather. SNOW dusted across the Barrington Tops on Monday afternoon, turning the Aussie Ark wildlife sanctuary into a winter wonderland for its animals. Hand-raised rufous bettong, Buttercup, had a quick play in the alpine conditions before she and Parma Wallaby, Petey, were moved into indoor enclosures where they could stay warm and protected. Aussie Ark operations manager Dean Reid said while the snow wasn't deep, the strong winds and steady flurries created dramatic, alpine-like conditions that lasted well into the evening. He said the Tasmanian devils took it all in stride, relishing the icy change - a climate not unlike their native Tasmania. Just last week the sanctuary welcomed 10 new, healthy Tassie devil joeys. "A dusting of snow like this is exactly what our Tasmanian devils love; they come alive in these conditions," he said. "Watching them explore and enjoy the snow is a special reminder of how well-adapted they are to this environment." Mr Reid said rangers prepared and fed animals for a comfortable night ahead and dry straw was added to provide warm bedding where needed. "Dry straw gives the animals extra insulation against the cold. It was a calm, coordinated response from a team experienced in managing wildlife through the extremes of the Australian bush," he said. The snowfall followed severe flooding that affected the sanctuary just weeks earlier. National parks, including the Barrington Tops, remain closed until further notice. The public is urged to avoid affected areas. Gale-force winds swept across the Hunter over the King's Birthday long weekend, bringing icy temperatures and damaging weather. SNOW dusted across the Barrington Tops on Monday afternoon, turning the Aussie Ark wildlife sanctuary into a winter wonderland for its animals. Hand-raised rufous bettong, Buttercup, had a quick play in the alpine conditions before she and Parma Wallaby, Petey, were moved into indoor enclosures where they could stay warm and protected. Aussie Ark operations manager Dean Reid said while the snow wasn't deep, the strong winds and steady flurries created dramatic, alpine-like conditions that lasted well into the evening. He said the Tasmanian devils took it all in stride, relishing the icy change - a climate not unlike their native Tasmania. Just last week the sanctuary welcomed 10 new, healthy Tassie devil joeys. "A dusting of snow like this is exactly what our Tasmanian devils love; they come alive in these conditions," he said. "Watching them explore and enjoy the snow is a special reminder of how well-adapted they are to this environment." Mr Reid said rangers prepared and fed animals for a comfortable night ahead and dry straw was added to provide warm bedding where needed. "Dry straw gives the animals extra insulation against the cold. It was a calm, coordinated response from a team experienced in managing wildlife through the extremes of the Australian bush," he said. The snowfall followed severe flooding that affected the sanctuary just weeks earlier. National parks, including the Barrington Tops, remain closed until further notice. The public is urged to avoid affected areas. Gale-force winds swept across the Hunter over the King's Birthday long weekend, bringing icy temperatures and damaging weather.
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Yahoo
Police dog hits on stolen gun, sends convicted felon to jail: Upland PD
A police dog is being credited with catching a convicted felon who was allegedly in possession of a stolen gun during a traffic stop in Upland earlier this week. 'Monday, just after 10 pm, an officer stopped a Prius for some traffic violations near Mountain Ave and 7th Street,' the Upland Police Department posted on Facebook Tuesday afternoon. During the traffic stop, officers discovered that the driver was a convicted felon with prior drug arrests and gang-related offenses. The unidentified suspect told officers he'd been staying out of trouble and was on the up-and-up. 'Well, K9 Petey was on the stop as well, wasn't buying it, and alerted on the vehicle,' police said in the post. Inside, officers located a loaded gun that was reported stolen. The driver was subsequently arrested, and his vehicle was towed away. Police ended the post with a shout-out to their K-9 partner. 'Good boy, Petey 🐾'. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
What's On
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
- What's On
Staten Island King, Pete Davidson announces UAE gig
The stand-up, actor, serial dater, and SNL legend is capital bound… Pete Davidson is probably one of the best-known faces in comedy. You may recognise him from his scathing appearances on celebrity roasts; the many writing credits he's racked up; his eight-year tenure on Saturday Night Live ; his acting roles in movies and TV shows such as Dog Man (as the voice of 'Petey'), The Suicide Squad, The Rookie, The Dirt, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine ; or from one of his many high profile flings with Hollywood's glamour set. But it's his stand-up comedy that probably gives the best public account of this entertainment phenomenon. His live shows and Netflix specials are categorised by a raw confessional style of observational comedy – fizzing with studied self-deprecation and typically tangoing hard with the taboo. And in a fantastic piece of breaking news for UAE comedy fans, the recently de-tatted comic has been announced as the latest headliner for the Abu Dhabi Comedy Season. The lol-apalooza is comprised of a series of stand-up gigs, featuring the curdling creme of the international comedy circuit, with shows taking place at Yas Island's Etihad Arena from April, right through to July. The pointed, popularly-anointed King of Staten Island , Davidson will be performing his own spide-split session on June 25, 2025 (8pm) and tickets are on sale now through priced from Dhs295. This is the point where we'd usually include a little YouTube embed of his best bits. An SNL retrospective maybe, but I couldn't find a clip that gets more than seven seconds before failing even the most lenient censor test. Not even his hilarious 'I'm Just Pete' parody of the Ken song from the Barbie movie (although, I can't stop you from Googling it). He will be joined by a litany of other articles of hilarity made manifest – with a funny, punny alumni that includes Trevor Noah, Kevin Hart, Gad Elmaleh, Michael McIntyre, and Bill Burr. For an overview of all the currently announced comedy headed for gigs across UAE this year, check out our full stand-up guide. Etihad Arena, Yas Island, June 25 8pm, from Dhs295. Images: Live Nation/What's On archive > Sign up for FREE to get exclusive updates that you are interested in
Washington Post
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
‘Dog Man' is a pretty good movie, in addition to being a very good boy
'Flow,' the dialogue-free Latvian animated epic that's been nominated for two Oscars, presents the absurd and possibly actionable case that cats are more resourceful and virtuous than dogs. Fortunately, the more traditionally kiddie-coded animated feature 'Dog Man' has arrived to right the scales: While its hero is a formerly human police officer with a Very Good Boy's head stitched on in place of his own after an explosion injures them both, the movie's malefactor is Petey, the World's Most Evilest (sic) Cat. Dogs: loyal, constant, self-sacrificing, duty-bound. Cats: scheming, unknowable, pragmatic, amoral. Nature is healing. Adapted from Dav Pilkey's eponymous series of graphic novels (which he spun off from his 'Captain Underpants' books), 'Dog Man' is a loving and visually inventive if somewhat exhausting parody of cop flicks, superhero sagas and dog-cat tension. The animation has a texture and dimensionality that occasionally recalls stop-motion, though it doesn't have the truly handmade quality of the Aardman Animations pictures, for example. If it also lacks the more poetic dimensions of 'Flow' or even the contemporaneous DreamWorks Animation release 'The Wild Robot,' it has taste enough to abjure the instantly dated needle drops and would-be catchphrases that were once a hallmark of DreamWorks cartoons. Whether this relative restraint makes 'Dog Man' more or less appealing to the young viewer in your life depends entirely on the kid. Indeed, parents, grandparents or other elder chaperones in the audience may find the library of references on offer to be surprisingly vintage. There are explicit shout-outs to adrenaline-pumping 1980s classics 'Aliens' and 'Die Hard,' and the premise of a family-man police officer being reborn as an unholy hybrid after a grave, line-of-duty injury is straight out of another '80s hit: 'RoboCop.' 'Dog Man' even pays brief homage to that splattery satire by having its half-canine hero swoon over a photo of the family he had as Officer Knight, while howling along to Hank Williams's 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry' — not the sort of soundtrack cut one expects in a TikTok-era kiddie flick. But the movie doesn't lean hard enough into tragedy to have Dog Man attempt to contact his former wife and child. Instead, the family-reconciliation subplot belongs to Petey (Pete Davidson), who is inspired by his precocious clone Li'l Petey (Lucas Hopkins Calderon) to explore the kittenhood trauma that drove him to a life of supervillainy. This brings the white-whiskered Grampa (Stephen Root) into the picture, giving Dog Man three generations of felines to contend with. Screenwriter-director Peter Hastings — who also voices Dog Man's barks, woofs, howls and assorted canine musings — has shoehorned a streaming season's worth of plot into this sub-90-minute enterprise, and its caffeinated tempo makes 'Moana 2' feel like a Terrence Malick joint. (Pilkey has said that his childhood diagnoses of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and dyslexia informed his career as a storyteller, which he acknowledges in the form of Petey's robot-henchman character, 80-HD.) Lil Rel Howery gives the most distinct and lively of the film's vocal performances as Chief, Dog Man's harried superior. He's less troubled by Dog Man's off-leash methods of law enforcement than by the supercop's habit of fetching the wadded-up balls of trash he hurls in the general direction of his wastebasket. Because the warden of the Cat Jail from which Petey keeps escaping happens to be the brother of Ohkay City's Mayor (Cheri Oteri), the mayor looks for a scapepup for these penal failures. Lacking the verbal dexterity to defend himself, Dog Man gets choke-chained off the case, like all great movie cops, right around the end of Act 2. Fortunately, our half-canine hero has as little regard for due-process-bound bureaucrats as Inspector 'Dirty Harry' Callahan did in the Clint Eastwood movies. This, um, doggedness proves to be a boon to the taxpayers of Ohkay City when Petey, seeking reinforcements, revives the previously dead Flippy the Fish, who turns out to be a criminal ally he can't control. Lacking a substantive education in Pilkey's books, I assumed at first that Chief's reference to 'a psychokinetic evil fish' was a 'Watchmen' joke, but nope, Ricky Gervais's Flippy, who emerges as Dog Man and Petey's common foe, is indeed a water-breathing, telekinetic sociopath capable of transforming inanimate buildings into rampaging anthropomorphic mecha-beasts. If those mad scientists had sewn a cat's head onto Officer Knight's body, we'd all be in a lot of trouble. PG. At area theaters. Contains cartoon mayhem, mild potty humor, and dogs and cats living together. 89 minutes.
Boston Globe
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
‘Dog Man' is a real dog, man
Based on the graphic novels by Dav Pilkey, this is the second film in the 'Captain Underpants' cinematic universe. Writer-director Peter Hastings follows 2017′s 'Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie' with this eye-searing, extremely busy, animated action comedy starring the voice talents of Davidson plays Petey the Cat, an evil orange feline mastermind whose goal is to take over the city run by Oteri's angry mayor. Thwarting him at every turn are Officer Knight and his canine partner, Greg. Officer Knight may be the dumbest cop who ever lived — Greg is the brains of this operation — but they still manage to get their cat every time. Petey (Pete Davidson) in "Dog Man." Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Animation Advertisement Unfortunately, Petey is a master of prison breakouts, presumably because the mayor's inferior jail design makes escaping easy. During the kitty crimewave that opens 'Dog Man,' Petey leaves a bomb for Officer Knight and Greg to defuse. Listening to his color-blind partner, Knight cuts the wrong wire. The resulting explosion renders Knight's head, and Greg's body, useless. Two chipper surgeons decide to sew Greg's head on Knight's body. Voila! Dog Man is born. In keeping with the source material, Dog Man does not talk. Hastings provides his occasional barks. Unfortunately, nobody else in this movie ever shuts up, and the endless dialogue they're given is full of exposition and jokes far too juvenile to entertain parents. Adults may be amused by a scene that rips off the most poignant scene in 1987′s 'Robocop.' Before they were blown to smithereens, Officer Knight asked Dog to take care of his girlfriend if anything were to happen to him. Dog Man returns to the house the three shared (for reasons I'm too afraid to fathom), but all that remains in the empty home are memories. Advertisement It worked better when Paul Verhoeven did it. From left: Seamus (Billy Boyd) and Sarah Hatoff (Isla Fisher) in "Dog Man." Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Animation Anyway, Dog Man becomes an overnight sensation, much to the chagrin of his jealous boss, Chief (Lil Rel Howery). In addition to getting chewed out by Mayor every time Petey escapes Dog Man's clutches, Chief has to deal with Sarah Hatoff (Isla Fisher), a reporter who can't stop extolling Dog Man's virtues in the newspaper. Both Petey and Dog Man inherit partners to help them. Petey gets Flippy, a reanimated, formerly dead criminal mastermind fish that's been reinforced with titanium and the voice of Ricky Gervais. Dog Man gets Lil' Petey (Lucas Hopkins Calderon), a kitten who looks like Petey for reasons I won't reveal, if only because it's the best joke in the movie. Don't ask me how Stephen Root fits in as Petey's evil grandfather. The rest of the cast features even more SNL alumni, including cameos by Laraine Newman and Melissa Villaseñor. The big surprise is that none of these talented voice actors bring anything new or interesting to their one-dimensional roles. Gervais in particular sounds like he's reading cue cards, as if just hearing his snide voice would be enough. From left: Petey (Pete Davidson) and Dog Man (Peter Hastings) in "Dog Man." Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Animation In typical DreamWorks Animation fashion, the needle drops are obnoxious (wait until you get a load of Dog Man howling along with Hank Williams). And the animation is so bright and frenetic that I needed ibuprofen after my screening. Look, I know I'm not the target audience for 'Dog Man,' but there's no reason I couldn't have been entertained. After all, I grew up with 'Underdog,' 'Hong Kong Phooey,' and Brain from 'Inspector Gadget' (the closest comparison to this movie), all cartoon dogs I enjoyed watching. Advertisement It's very easy for me to get in touch with the kid I used to be, especially while watching an animated movie. But even with the killer buildings that figure in the film's climax, my younger self would have been equally bored watching this movie. As the credits rolled, I overheard a kid telling his father that 'there were some new things added, but most of the story came from the books. I loved it!' Fans of 'Dog Man' should listen to that kid's review. The rest of you are stuck with me. ★½ DOG MAN Written and directed by Peter Hastings, based on the books by Dav Pilkey. Starring Pete Davidson, Lil Rel Howery, Cheri Oteri, Isla Fisher, Ricky Gervais, Lucas Hopkins Calderon, Stephen Root, Laraine Newman, Melissa Villaseñor. At AMC Boston Common, Alamo Drafthouse Seaport, AMC Causeway, suburbs. 94 min. PG (cartoon peril, jokes about butt sniffing) Odie Henderson is the Boston Globe's film critic.
