MEXICO CITY — Mexican narcos’ fascination with exotic animals was on display this week after a spider monkey dressed up as a drug gang mascot …
Spring has sprung and the signs of it are all around. Flowers are blooming, the bees are buzzing and the wildlife around us is active. With all of that activity comes increased calls about injured and potentially abandoned wildlife.
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BALTIMORE — When Stacey Martin, an Army sergeant, gets home at night, she finds Autumn, her dog, by the door, sitting at attention — except for her tail, which quivers in anticipation. Martin can hardly wait, either. It’s a treasured time for both.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Americans have bet more than $125 billion on sports with legal gambling outlets in the four years since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for all 50 states to offer it.
Conner Campbell (left) and Leah Kurt, both employees at Dubuque Regional Humane Society, play with Lucy at the facility in Dubuque on Tuesday. The humane society is participating in Bissell Pet Foundation's "Empty the Shelters" event through Sunday, May 15. Adoption fees for adult cats and d…
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WASHINGTON — Research confirms what dog lovers know — every pup is truly an individual.
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At the park near Duboce Triangle in San Francisco, 5 p.m. is canine happy hour. About 40 dogs run around, chasing balls and wrestling, as their owners coo and ’90s hip-hop bumps out of a portable speaker.
River Lights Bookstore owner Sue Davis' dog, Mavis, wanders through the store on Tuesday, June 6, 2017, in Dubuque.
NEW YORK — Labrador retrievers are still tugging hardest on U.S. dog lovers' heartstrings, but poodles just strutted back into the American Kennel Club's top five most popular dog breeds for the first time in nearly a quarter-century.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The first time 11-year-old Levi McAllister had a tooth pulled, he screamed, kicked and struggled so much that his mom had to hold him down.
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With three German shepherds of her own, Lauren Egan knows the hassle of trying to bathe dirty dogs.
With February comes Valentine’s Day, and many will think about love that comes from the heart.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — As omicron sweeps through households, more pet owners are reporting their dogs or cats show signs of coronavirus.
Working from home has its ups and its downs.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have finally added the long-promised cat to their pet family.
HONG KONG — Hong Kong authorities said today that they will kill about 2,000 small animals, including hamsters, after several tested positive for the coronavirus at a pet store where an employee was also infected.
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None of us want our pets to become sick or injured. My job as a veterinarian not only involves treatment, but also includes educating pet owners on ways to avoid these issues.
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CASS LAKE, Minnesota — Animal neglect used to be such a problem on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota, with basic services like sterilization out of reach for many due to poverty and remoteness, that packs of stray dogs would sometimes bring traffic to a halt on the main highway.
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NEW YORK — A lot of that human-pet bonding during the pandemic is slowly coming to an end as more offices reopen, so what’s a lonely dog to do?
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jabbar Fant isn’t a big fan of flying.
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LONDON — A former British Royal Marine who waged a high-profile campaign to leave Afghanistan with almost 200 rescued dogs and cats has flown to safety — with the animals, but without his charity’s Afghan staff, who were left behind in Kabul.
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Last summer, like millions of Americans, I brought home a 7-pound ball of fluff. Over the past year, my mini-goldendoodle has turned into 23 pounds of pure joy.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. — The pandemic forced last year’s Green Bay premiere of “Rescue Story: Saving Companion Animals” to go makeshift drive-in style in a church parking lot, but it didn’t keep Milo from walking the red carpet.
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OAKLAND, Calif. — A San Francisco Bay Area zoo is inoculating its big cats, bears and ferrets against the coronavirus as part of a national effort to protect animal species using an experimental vaccine.
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NEW YORK — U.S. health officials Monday announced a one-year ban on bringing in dogs from more than 100 countries where rabies is still a problem.
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NEW YORK — U.S. health officials Monday announced a one-year ban on bringing in dogs from more than 100 countries where rabies is still a problem.
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AMES, Iowa — COVID-19 outbreaks, no access to volunteers and a slew of unknowns piled on the stress at Ames and Story County animal shelters over the past year.
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Building up a robust social network should be as much of a retirement-planning goal as building up a robust 401(k), say psychologists who specialize in treating retirees.
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CHICAGO — Your pet eased the loneliness of the COVID-19 pandemic, sitting close as you binge-watched “Bridgerton,” making cameos on your Zoom calls and forcing you outside for walks.
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BEDFORD, N.H. — Two police officers successfully rescued a German Shepherd that had fallen into a 500-gallon septic tank as it was being serviced, police in New Hampshire said.
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FRANKLIN GROVE, Ill. — A team of Illinois researchers is using dogs to track down a threatened species of turtle.
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As airlines slashed flights and furloughs appeared inevitable in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Mike Catania sensed there would be little need for a service that helped airline crews find short-term housing.
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NEW YORK — Petco, the pet store chain, went public again today, hoping to cash in on people's obsessions with their furry pets.
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Think your dog deserves dessert? So does Ben & Jerry's.
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DALLAS — American Airlines is banning emotional-support animals in a move that will force most owners to pay extra if they want their pets to travel with them.
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DALLAS — American Airlines is banning emotional-support animals in a move that will force most owners to pay extra if they want their pets to travel with them.
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Sometime in 2021, probably for many more than a year after pandemic restrictions began in the United States, most American workers and students will return to campuses, offices and other workplaces. Left behind will pets who have become accustomed to humans staying home with them.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Humane Society in Portland has taken in 250 guinea pigs from an overwhelmed pet owner.
Eileen Nagle sees her family in video chats and drive-by visits, but that hasn't made up for the lack of warm hugs in the nine months since the pandemic led her nursing home to shut its doors to visitors.
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WHEATON, Ill. — A whiff of her old blanket was enough for Lola: The black Lab was back in her owners’ arms three years after the Michigan dog disappeared on a trip to Illinois.
The government has decided that when it comes to air travel, only dogs can be service animals, and companions used for emotional support don't count.
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HELSINKI — Finland has deployed coronavirus-sniffing dogs at the Nordic country’s main international airport in a four-month trial of an alternative testing method that could become a cost-friendly and quick way to identify infected travelers.
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HELSINKI — Finland has deployed coronavirus-sniffing dogs at the Nordic country’s main international airport in a four-month trial of an alternative testing method that could become a cost-friendly and quick way to identify infected travelers.
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Jennifer Stile was apprehensive when she found out that training classes for her puppy Josie would be moving online because of the pandemic.
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NEW YORK — The verbal dispute between a white woman walking her dog and a black man bird watching in Central Park might normally have gone unnoticed in a city preoccupied by the coronavirus pandemic.
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NEW YORK — The verbal dispute between a white woman walking her dog and a black man bird watching in Central Park might normally have gone unnoticed in a city preoccupied by the coronavirus pandemic.
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LAS VEGAS — Roy Horn, of Siegfried & Roy, the duo whose extraordinary magic tricks astonished millions until Horn was critically injured in 2003 by one of the act’s famed white tigers, has died. He was 75.
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JANESVILLE, Wis. — The clock started ticking back in March, when employees at the Humane Society of Southern Wisconsin heard rumblings about the coronavirus and the impact it could have in Wisconsin.
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NEW YORK — A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the U.S. or a tiger anywhere, federal officials and the zoo said Sunday.