Pheasant season took an ugly turn for Michael Murray when he was shot by Sonny, his year-old English setter pup
Customers at a McDonald’s in Washington DC got a shock Friday when two deer jumped through the restaurant window
The dog-only bloodmobile is the only one of its kind in the country, officials at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine believe. The white bus travels to blood drives organised by breeders, dog clubs, veterinarians and others in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland to collect blood for its well known veterinary hospital
Britain sought to live up to its reputation as a nation of animal lovers this week with a plan to overhaul almost 100 years of laws covering the welfare of all animals kept by humans
A new coalition — the Pacific Alliance for Wild Wolves — is forming to fight an anticipated reduction in federal protections for wolves that could migrate back into California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington from a population reintroduced in northern Idaho
The Alaska Board of Game added 55 square miles of protection for wolves around Denali National Park and Preserve on Friday. The vote was unanimous. The board also extended a ban on wolf hunting and trapping in a 72-square-mile buffer established in November 2000. That protection was scheduled to end 31 March
Dogs and their owners could become the latest target of a clampdown on moral corruption in Iran after a hardline cleric called for canines of all shapes to be arrested
After nearly five millennia clinging to a wind-swept mountain in eastern California, clips from a bristlecone pine tree believed to be the world’s oldest will spend the next year in a petri dish
It’s nurture over nature for a lioness in Kenya who keeps choosing to dote on baby antelope rather than devour them. Kamuniak, a lioness in northern Kenya’s Samburu National Park has adopted her fifth new-born oryx this year
Food poisoning killed thousands of foxes at Finnish fox farms last weekend in the largest case of poisoning in the world’s top pelt producer
Police in France’s Normandy region say a 31-year-old hunter trying out his marksmanship has accidentally cut power to 1,200 country homes and killed a cow
According to Jerry Bromenshenk at the University of Montana, trained honeybees have shown a remarkable ability to sniff out land mines, suggesting a possible new way to find the estimated 110 million unexploded land mines around the world
For two weeks, volunteers have kept a round-the-clock vigil at the no-kill Animal Shelter of North County. They’re afraid that if they leave, the city of Arlington will lock them out
Recent studies in Romania where large numbers of sheep coexist with dense populations of large carnivores, such as bears and wolves, have shown that the use of electric fences in night time pens can significantly reduce sheep mortality
Officials at the state Directorate for Wildlife Management have said that no licenses will be issued for a wolf hunt this winter as they are only aware of two wolf pairs that can reproduce. That means there is no basis for an authorised hunt. The decision provides for some breathing room in a long-standing quarrel between Norwegian and Swedish wildlife officials. Both sides had cooperated in building up southern Scandinavia’s once nearly extinct wolf population, members of which often cross back and forth over the border
Two red wolf pups born in South Carolina are being moved to a North Carolina refuge in hopes that they’ll mate and raise a family. The male and female pups are between 17 and 18 months old. They’re expected to arrive this afternoon at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina. It’s the only mainland site where the endangered species lives in the wild
Rodent lovers are celebrating a decision by a Queensland court today to fine three people $375 for abandoning a pet rat
ADP Pharmaceuticals from Goulburn in New South Wales has won Federal Government backing for a project which aims to use genes from deer to repair human cartilage
A shark held with no male counterpart at Detroit’s Belle Isle Aquarium for the past six years has produced three babies in what zoo officials are calling virgin births
A fox snapped up two balls hit from the seventh tee on to the fairway by players in a tournament at Gronhogen golf course on the island of Oland off Sweden’s south-eastern coast
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