As fans stood for the national anthem before a game last weekend, clapping and cheering while the singer belted out the last words, they filled the United Center with noise, something that had been sorely missing during years of dismal Blackhawks games.
Shirley Garner said the first call demanding ransom for her missing puppy came Jan. 2. "'I have your dog. I like this dog,' he'd say," Garner recounted. "'Give me $500 or she dies.' "
Dr. Valerie Creighton grew up around some very uncommon pets—which are now generally unlawful—including otters, a gibbon ape, and a skunk. Yet, she has devoted her veterinary practice to the unique medical needs of the common house cat.
What has been speculation in the local media and concern among animal lovers has just become a sad fact — some of the polar bear cubs born in Nuremberg Zoo a few weeks ago are believed to be dead.
Every weekday for the past 11 years, Health Trust Meals on Wheels has delivered about 300 hot meals daily to house-bound seniors and others who are too ill to go out.
The owner of a company accused of hurling pets off a bridge denied responsibility for the deaths but promised to pay for a mass burial, a witness testified in a preliminary hearing Friday.
A Japanese company is offering its employees a monthly "pet allowance" to help with the upkeep of their cats and dogs.
Using their own air miles, contributions from supporters, and blind faith, veterinarian Tina Cone and veterinary assistants Debbie Weiland and Ramona Hambrick, with the Berryville Veterinary Clinic, will be embarking on an adventure to help the animals of Central America.
The dozens of birds found dead in Great Kills and in Eltingville last month were killed by an overdose of a toxic chemical banned in New York City eight years ago, the city's Health Department announced tonight.
State environmental officials are investigating who used a banned chemical that may have killed dozens of blackbirds and starlings on Staten Island's South Shore last month.
A black Labrador that bit a 13-year-old boy's foot repeatedly, waking him up, is being credited with saving the boy and two of his friends from a house fire.
I don't know a whole lot about law, but if I'm a member of Roger Clemens' legal team, I tell him the B-12 vitamin defense is not one I would personally mount if I were being hounded by accusations of steroid use and had been invited to testify before a congressional committee.
A rabid kitten set off public health alerts in four U.S. states last summer after it had been widely handled by players from several teams at a softball tournament, federal health officials said on Thursday.
A mysterious die-off of hundreds of crows throughout New York has been linked to the avian reovirus, a pathogen that has threatened the poultry industry in the past, relentlessly sweeping through flocks, state wildlife officials said Thursday.
Americans now spend more than $41 billion a year on their pets, according to Buisness Week magazine.
Emergency surgery was performed to save an Australian snake that swallowed four golf balls after mistaking them for chicken eggs, a veterinarian said Thursday.
Last fall, the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved two new methods of identifying livestock within a voluntary national database, a move that one area extension agent says will help meet two related goals.
Twenty-two of the 47 pit bulls that survived Michael Vick's Bad Newz Kennels were flown to an animal sanctuary in Utah yesterday.
In the 3 1/2 years it's been open, Jurys Boston Hotel has never found bedbugs on its premises, nor have its guests complained about being bitten. Still, the luxury hotel in the Back Bay began dispatching a bedbug-sniffing dog to each of its 225 guest rooms last year.
Eight Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep died in southwest Colorado last month, and all showed signs of pneumonia, state wildlife officers said Wednesday.
Outdoor games could become a regular fixture on the NHL calendar following another stunning success at the Winter Classic on Tuesday despite freezing temperatures and blizzard conditions.
t took a few minutes for Herb Isakson, 81, to smile as he sat in the hobby room at Croixdale with about a dozen other senior citizens last week. But his face split into a huge grin when Ruby crawled into his lap and snuggled in.
Eyes locked, ears perked, front legs crouched as if ready to pounce, the 9-year-old border collie matches the intensity of her mission. She's responsible for keeping the runway at Southwest Florida International Airport clear of birds, which can damage planes.
People who don't like pets like them even less at $400 a night.
An animal lover is providing foster homes for pets whose owners have been caught up in domestic abuse. Marian Edwards decided to offer the service after working on the Welsh Women's Aid helpline.
Shirley Garner said the first call demanding ransom for her missing puppy came Jan. 2. "'I have your dog. I like this dog,' he'd say," Garner recounted. "'Give me $500 or she dies.' "
In some situations, it pays to watch your step. Josue Herrios-Coronilla, 18, drove his black Camaro on the wrong side of the road Wednesday and crashed into the yard of man who owns four dogs, police said.
A group of 55 greyhounds rescued after a life of racing are helping to save more canine lives with the donation of their blood.
"Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew," a new series on VH1, is a searing, unflattering but still celebratory look at eight worst-case-scenario addicts.
Socially-learned cultural behaviour thought to be unique to humans is also found among chimpanzees colonies, scientists at the University of Liverpool have found.
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