Pets and Animals

Kaya, a military service dog, was the inspiration behind the PAWS Act, signed into law in 2021

A group of international researchers announced the discovery of what may have been the largest penguin ever to have lived. 

“Puppies will always give you a surprise,” Dan Schachner, Puppy Bowl’s referee, told FOX Television Stations.

Purina says two dogs who ate the recalled brands became ill and showed signs of vitamin D toxicity.

A woman who follows the shelter on Facebook had seen posts about Mitch in the past, but the emotional video "convinced her to give Mitch a forever home."

An Indianapolis animal shelter say the next 24 hours will be crucial for the injured feline.

A North Carolina woman said she took her dog to the shelter to be quarantined after the animal bit someone. But a fatal mistake left her to mourn the loss of her pet.

Meanwhile, one-third of dog parents across generations said they would never date someone who doesn’t like pets.

"Bruno knows there’s nothing wrong with him, and now he has a best friend just like him to prove it."

To celebrate the recent birth of four new foals, the Budweiser Clydesdale breeding and training ranch in Missouri is hosting a Super Bowl watch party.

Exterminators in the North Bay were recently met with a nutty surprise during a call to a home in the wine country community of Glen Ellen in Sonoma County: more than 700 pounds of acorns in the walls stacked up about 20 feet from floor to attic.

His cause of death has yet to be determined as a medical investigation is pending, the zoo said.

An Ohio animal shelter is offering a unique way for people to get over their breakup pain for Valentine’s Day.

A 30-year-old purebred Rafeiro do Alentejo has been declared the world’s oldest dog at 30 years and 266 days, Guinness World Records said.

The flavors of ice given to the zoo's carnivores aren't found at your average summer hotspot: Chicken, minced meat and bovine blood. But 14-year-old lion Simba and the 3-year-old black jaguar Poty lap it up.

Over a seven-year period, the smugglers reportedly shipped over 8,700 animals to Asia and sold them for a collective $5.13 million.

Investigators said the former director of a zoo in southern Mexico killed and cooked four of the zoo's pygmy goats and served them up at a Christmas-season party.

Roscoe, a beagle, went missing from Kansas in 2015. He was found in January 2023 more than 1,300 miles away in Idaho.