pets

Kang Sung-il buys Sancho, his Pomeranian, a toy every business trip and will dress it up in a new $50 suit when he visits his mother this Lunar New Year holiday. Kang and his wife say children are too expensive and bring too much pressure. ...

Life hasn't been easy for Stella. The small kitten with scruffy fur and matching orange-tinted eyes was born in September and still has no home. Just months ago, Stella's mother was living near a park in Kawasaki with neither food nor shelter. With winter looming, ...

During World War II, Wojciech Narebski and his fellow Polish servicemen had to lift crate after heavy metal crate of artillery. Fortunately for them, one of the soldiers had superhuman strength: Cpl. Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear. "When he saw that we were struggling, he'd ...

Love your dog, but worried about the environmental impact of its meat-heavy diet? Now one British company is offering a solution — feed your pooch insects instead. It launched a dry dog food on Thursday made from black soldier fly larvae in a bid to ...

As elderly dog owners struggle to care for their aging pets, more look to pet nursing homes for longterm help.

Florida authorities have caught a huge lizard that terrified residents of a suburban Miami neighborhood for months. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said Thursday the Asian water monitor lizard measures more than 8 feet (2.5 meters) long. The lizard is an escaped pet. It ...

The Environment Ministry plans to provide prefectural and major city governments with a booklet giving guidance to pet owners during times of disasters. The booklet, which will probably be distributed in October, gives municipalities tips about making routine preparations ahead of disasters and about the ...

Many cat owners in Hokkaido are desperately looking for their missing pets, fearing they have gotten lost after fleeing their homes in the turmoil created by the level 7 earthquake on Sept. 6. The animal management center in Sapporo, the capital, has been contacted about ...

Pet food containing peas, lentils, other legumes and potatoes might be causing heart disease in dogs, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a warning to pet owners. The FDA said Thursday that it has received "highly unusual" reports about canine dilated cardiomyopathy, which ...

Despite the positive attitudes people have toward dogs and cats and other pets, many of these companion animals lead miserable lives.

A 9-year-old English bulldog was named the winner of the 2018 World's Ugliest Dog contest in the San Francisco Bay Area. Zsa Zsa won the title Saturday night at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds in Petaluma. The dog's owner, Megan Brainard of Anoka, Minnesota, will receive $1,500 for ...