Pets

Are you a snake lover? If you are then make plans to see Rick and Eric Timaeus. These guys are from Animal Planet's Rattlesnake Republic. Rattlesnake Republic is a show featured on Animal Planet where men hunt and capture the continent's most dangerous predators...

After two consecutive years of being named the most bedbug-infested city in America, New York City has passed the torch. So who can now lay claim to the dubious honor?

Last Friday, Beth Gresham noticed something very troubling in her Memphis neighborhood. A puppy who had somehow gotten her head stuck in a plastic container. Being an animal lover, Gresham knew how vulnerable the pup was without any ability to eat or defend herself. So she tried her best to grab the dog and free its head. However, the pooch was too scared and ran away into the woods.

Legend has it that humans and dolphins have long possessed some unspoken kinship. And now, we may be very close to actually being able to communicate with them. Scientists are unveiling new findings at the Acoustical Society of America meeting in Hong Kong that could help them develop a special speaker that can take the cries and shrieks of dolphins and translate them into our human languages. Rea

If you thought mosquitoes were bad last year, brace yourselves.

Meow, the 39-pound cat whose weight struggles made national headlines, died Saturday afternoon at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society. He was about 2 years old.

Cee Lo Green‘s companion on this season of ‘The Voice,’ Purrfect the Cat, has her own Twitter account, with more than 47,000 followers and superstar friends. Purrfect’s Twitter feed lists her place of residence as “Cee Lo Green’s lap,” and through her 400+ tweets so far, we’ve learned that she grooms furiously before each show, she hates laser pointers, and she’s a fan of napping and Betty White.

We’ve seen our fair share of bizarre pet stories before, but this one definitely beats all others. In the UK, a choking dog managed to make an emergency phone call for help and responders saved him just in time. That’s one lucky pooch!

We all know the internet is made of cats, and it’s about time the internet cats noticed Twitter.

On May 13, 2010 I wrote this regarding a pit bull attack within the city limits of Victoria.  Almost two years later, pit bulls are still attacking pets and people in Victoria and now sadly, we have the unnecessary death of a 4 year old little boy in Victoria county...

We were all sad to hear that Yoda, the world’s ugliest dog of 2011, recently passed away. But there are still plenty of homely canines among us, including 2007′s World’s Ugliest Dog, Elwood.

It doesn’t get a lot of press coverage and the banks are still open, but March 23 is National Puppy Day. For the seventh year, we will spend this day reflecting on what it is that we love so much about puppies. Perhaps this is a day we should have more than once a year.