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A video of best buddies Suriya (orangutan) and Roscoe (pooch) is a YouTube sensation. An old tortoise and a young hippo have their own Web site and line of books detailing their friendship. You see stories of unlikely animal friends on the news: horses nuzzling cats, dogs caring for kittens and a pig nursing tiger cubs — and in May, Oprah even featured a dog and elephant who are best friends on her show.
COLUMBIA, Tenn. - A man who allegedly videotaped a friend having sex with a horse at a farm in Washington state in 2005 is now accused of performing sex acts with a horse in Tennessee.
A Southern California man has acknowledged letting hundreds of feral dogs and cats wander his property and kill each other.
Authorities say they've taken more than 400 animals, including sheep, goats, ducks and even four endangered turtles, from a filthy central Florida home.
A New Yorker convicted of animal cruelty has received three years of probation for running what a prosecutor called a "zoo from hell."
“The Cove,” which documents a brutal dolphin hunt off the Japanese town of Taiji, is putting would-be amusement park visitors in an ethical bind and park owners on the defensive.
Bolivia has enacted what animal rights defenders are calling the world's first law that prohibits the use of animals in circuses.
When the Richmond SPCA in Virginia announced plans to become a no-kill animal shelter beginning in 2002, there was one thing that CEO Robin Starr didn’t expect: vocal opposition from local rescue groups.
A dozen people have been arrested, and 33 pounds of heroin worth $30 million and stuffed inside Build-A-Bear toys has been seized in a drug bust in the Bronx.
At just two pounds, Natalie Maldonado’s teacup Chihuahua weighs less than her purse. But on a recent AirTran flight from Tampa to Atlanta, as she tucked the dog under her seat, a crewmember stopped Maldonado because the pet had been improperly tagged, she says.
Drugmaker Merck & Co. is considering selling some of its veterinary medicine assets or the animal health business of Schering-Plough Corp., as it prepares to acquire its New Jersey neighbor.
A Washington state man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for having sex with his two dogs.
A farm-animal breeder who ran what a prosecutor called "the zoo from hell" was convicted Tuesday of animal cruelty.
Only a few investigators in the country are trained to adequately investigate and prepare cases for prosecution of the horrendous crimes against animals that can leave dogs, roosters and other animals maimed and tortured.
Chased from their homes by the menacing Red River, Davis and Delbert took a break from their cramped quarters inside a makeshift shelter to enjoy a walk in the brisk air. They had reason to feel a little frisky: They're Labrador Retrievers.
The idea at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center is for a group of wildlife biologists to prepare a herd of a rare subspecies of bison for introduction into the wild. But, as an arresting video that’s piling up hits on the Internet shows, it ended up working the other way.
Kangaroo corpses lay scattered by the roadsides while wombats that survived the wildfire's onslaught emerged from their underground burrows to find blackened earth and nothing to eat.
The Food and Drug Administration made history Friday as it approved the first drug made with materials from genetically engineered animals, clearing the way for a new class of medical therapies.
Web sites fawn over them. YouTube videos celebrate them. E-mail inboxes rarely go more than a week without forwards filled with pictures of them.
Federal health officials Thursday pledged a new, open process for approving drugs and foods from genetically engineered animals.
Cheetahs, dolphins, and other endangered species will receive extra protection from hunters, pollution and climate change under measures approved Friday at an international wildlife conference.
The fire's survivors were a motley crew: A parrot, a peacock and a baboon. All of them stuffed.
Last summer, Mozart nibbled his foreleg fur down to the bare skin. The 13-year-old schipperke often licks the fur off his front legs and sometimes chews at his hind legs — behaviors that baffle his owner, Melanie Coronetz of New York City.
A lion cub and two baby orangutans have developed kidney stones at a zoo near Shanghai, making them the latest victims of China's tainted milk crisis.
Police have arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of stealing dead animals from a veterinary hospital morgue and stuffing them into empty lockers at a Bay Area high school.
Latest update in duct taped dog case: Investigators on trail of dog's abusers"Authorities this week said they are moving closer to identifying whoever wrappped a dog in duct tape and left it for dead in a trash bag in a remote wooded area of (upstate New York.)" -Times Union
Shortly before my mother married my stepfather in 1957, they bought our farm. By the time they were married, the farm was ready for all of us to move into. Not long after we moved in, we acquired two terrier puppies.
Stork Amputee Gets an Artificial LegIn August, Dietmar arrived in a bird reserve located between Dresden and Leipzig suffering from a broken leg. The sanctuary staff did everything they could to help Dietmar, but in the end the limb had to be amputated. However it has now been replaced with a carbon prosthesis.
Update: Reward in case of duct-taped dog tops $15K as grateful owners break their silence"As offers for rewards roll in, the owners of a dog found duct-taped and left to die in the woods say they're overwhelmed by the compassion shown their pooch." - WNYT.com (Video of Daisy included.)
17 Things Worth Knowing About Your Cat guniea pigs, squirrels, gorrilas, elephants, lemurs and rabbits also purr.
Woman Bitten By Shark Unsure If She'll Surf AgainPALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- A 27-year-old who was bitten by a shark while surfing in the Atlantic Ocean off Jupiter said Sunday she isn't sure she's willing to brave the waves again after her latest encounter.
Baby shower celebrates zoo's largest babyA baby shower was held over the weekend for Daizy, a baby elephant at the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque, NM. Video included.
Caught on camera: hippos kill crocodile in rare clash - Times OnlineBathing hippos usually have a tolerant attitude towards their fellow creatures — until something snaps. And then, as this crocodile discovered the hard way, they are the most dangerous wild animals in Africa
Animal rights activists win campaign to rehouse India's suffering elephants - Times OnlineThe elephant may be one of the national emblems of India, but animal-rights activists have long lamented the squalid conditions that most of the country's captive jumbos endure.
The Lion Guardians expansion continues!Save the lions from extinctions. Lions are extremely endangered as a result of insecticide usage.
'Win It' Wednesday: Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Eating Animals'This book is a break-through in outlining an important animal welfare issue, but is also presented in a non-pedantic and almost whimsical way (and is non-preachy to boot) If you missed him on Stewart's "Daily Show" please look it up, as he is a real match for Stewart and was equ …
Mom ran pet 'concentration camp,' son saysA mother of seven is accused of running a house of horrors for pets at her suburban home, forcing her children to help torture them and burying at least 20 dogs in her backyard.
Nato Labrador Sabi found safe and well a YEAR after being lost in fierce Afghanistan battle | Mail OnlineFinally, a feel good and wonderful story. It's nice to have one every once in a while, don't you agree?
P-p-p picture a penguin: Arctic birds turn tables on photographer by peering through lens and setting up own shotsAn inquisitive Emperor penguin looks through the viewfinder of a camera in Antarctica as his companions appear to pose for a photograph in front of the lens.
Brown pelican comes back from the brink of extinctionBrown pelican comes back from the brink of extinction The brown pelican, Louisiana's state bird and perhaps its best known symbol, has recovered from near extinction after pesticide threats in the 1970s and is being removed from the federal government's list of endangered specie …
Zoo critters bear up in heat wave, power outageThe beavers took cover in their underwater lodges, but hundreds of other animals were left seeking shade or a cooling breeze Thursday when a power outage hit an Australian zoo during a heat wave.
Debate sought on animals with human genesA mouse that can speak? A monkey with Down's Syndrome? Dogs with human hands or feet? British scientists want to know if such experiments are acceptable, or if they go too far in the name of medical research.
Deer in lions' den is fatally injured as crowd watchesA deer that jumped a wall at the National Zoo was fatally injured by two lions Sunday as dozens of startled spectators looked on... "Everyone was cheering, 'Go, go, go' " to encourage the deer to reach safety, witness Josh Shpayher said. "Everyone was rooting for the deer."
Getting up close and personal with the lions at Werribee Open Range Zoo | Mail OnlineThe four passengers in the jeep must feel a whisker away from death as a lion jumps up on to their bonnet for lunch. But that's all part of the attraction. The jeep is a new zoo exhibit which allows visitors to get incredibly close to the lions.
Holy Hounds: LA Church Allows Pets in Pews - The Daily Treat: Animal PlanetLos Angeles Church allows pets in pews.
Connecticut Health Experts Discuss Implications Of Cats' Ability To Catch Swine Flu -- Courant.comThe First Case of H1N1 found in Iowa House Cat. This cat appeared to have caught the H1N1 from his owners. A pet ferret in Oregon was found to have H1N1 last month and pigs and birds have also come down with H1N1.
SC man gets 3 years in prison for sex with horse"A man caught having sex with a horse in a South Carolina stable has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Last night (Tuesday the 3rd) my wife and I went to see Kooza by Cirque Du Soleil at the Santa Monica Pier.
Town: License needed for more than three catsHow much feline is too much feline in the town of Dudley, Mass.? If you have four of the furry four-legged friends without special dispensation, you've gone too far. The town just made it illegal to own more than three cats without getting a $50 residential kennel license.
A Picture Paints a Thousand WordsCartoonist Berkeley Breathed, famous for the "Bloom County" and "Opus" cartoon strips, credits a photo he saw in the New York Times of a dog seized from Michael Vick's property, along with a quote from another source, as the inspiration for his new book.
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