Tag: Pets
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It's National Pet Week! Here's how to celebrate
This week is all about celebrating the bond between pets and their humans, and learning as much as you can about smart and eco-savvy pet ownership.
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How sustainable is pet ownership?
Pets bring so much joy and extend our lives. A new study looks at some of our pet maintenance choices.
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Family Cleans House, Finds Pet Tortoise Missing Since 1982
For one particularly tenacious pet tortoise, its hardy sense of survival allowed it to endure for decades in the most unnatural of places.
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Lessons from Darwin, The IKEA Monkey
We now treat our pets like our kids or our spouses. Is this a healthy thing?
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21 Natural Home Remedies for Pets
From knocking out fleas to fighting the evils of hairballs, these simple, all-natural remedies are both planet and pet approved.
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Just a Hen Who Thinks She Hatched Kittens (Photos)
This adorably confused hen thinks she hatched a litter of kittens on a farm -- and proves hens and cats can co-exist.
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Radioactive Pet Bowls Sold at Chicago Petco Store
Stainless steel pet bowls contaminated with traces of cobalt-60 found in Illinois Petco stores.
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Waste Receptacle Offers Wi-Fi in Exchange for Dog Poo
Bullmastiff owners in Mexico City are about to become extremely popular among laptop-wielding parkgoers, methinks
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The Week in Animal News: Cheetah-Dog Friendship, Robotic Animals from Old Computers and More
A cheetah and a yellow lab at Busch Gardens have been friends since they were little, an artist makes sweet robotic animals from e-waste and more.
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Pamper Your Pet With These 10 Natural and Organic Pet Foods
Set a high standard for your cats and dogs with these healthy alternatives to traditional food.
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Un-TreeHugger: World's First Stairlift for Obese Pets
Like their human counterparts, pets are becoming obese -- spawning temporary fixes like this costly stairlift for pets.
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7 Humane Solutions to Rat and Mice Infestations
These are the nice guy alternatives to poison and sticky traps.
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6 Tragic Stories of Exotic Pet Ownership Gone Wrong
From a toddler's confrontation with a python to a bear named Teddy that was not a toy, these dark animal captivity stories should deter some from keeping an exotic animal as a pet.
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Green Gift Guide: The Animal Lover
From sushi cat toys to adopting a lemur to an award-winning film documenting colony collapse disorder, find a gift for your animal lover right here.
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TV Chef Likens Eating Puppy Meat to Eating Pork
British celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has made a name for himself by venturing into the darkest corners of culinary arts. Throughout his career as host of several cooking shows in the UK, Fearnley-Whittingstall has put
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The Week in Animal News: Surfers Save Shark, Skinned Alive for Fake Uggs, and More (Slideshow)
It's been a good week for sharks -- a baby great white was rescued by Venice beach surfers, the world's largest shark sanctuary was declared, and faux shark fin soup may be catching on.
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The Week in Animal News: Long Lost Cat Comes Home, Animals Bathing, and More (Slideshow)
A Colorado family that had long ago given up on finding their cat got some incredible news this week, when Willow was found in New York City -- five years later and 1,800 miles from home.
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The Week in Pictures: Camping Trailer is also a Boat, Cats Nap in TVs, and More (Slideshow)
Wouldn't it be nice if you could just take your car from road to lake? Well now you can, and while camping to boot: This wild design morphs a trailer from a tent into a boat.
