A homeless man already charged with soaking live cats in gas and torching them in California is now accused with using scissors to lop off feline tails.
A woman stockpiled cat food donated to her purported animal sanctuary and resold some of it, leaving dozens of animals to go hungry, to finance a drug habit, police said.
Authorities are trying to find out who stuffed 70 dead Siamese cats into seven large trash bags and dumped them onto a road in suburban San Antonio.
Last summer, Mozart nibbled his foreleg fur down to the bare skin. The 13-year-old schipperke often licks the fur off his front legs and sometimes chews at his hind legs — behaviors that baffle his owner, Melanie Coronetz of New York City.
Five veterinary clinics in eastern Alabama received 32 surprises in the last week: Healthy cats in containers and carriers, along with notes from an anonymous donor saying she is dying from cancer.
Tenants of a Brooklyn building said their landlord came up with a new idea for how to kick them out: Let the smell of the cats out of the bag. Dead cats, that is.
The famed six-toed cats at Ernest Hemingway's island home aren't going anywhere.
Wildlife officials say that many people who report seeing a cougar in the eastern United States have mistaken it for its smaller cousin, the bobcat. Here are some characteristics of both.
Like some other residents of this small town, Mary Elizabeth Goodwyn doesn't go outside after dark much anymore.
Chattanooga firefighters rescued several cats during a house fire that investigators say was probably caused by the cats themselves.
An ancient tar pit exposed when Venezuelan oil workers laid a pipeline has yielded a rich trove of fossils, including a type of saber-toothed cat that paleontologists had never found before in South America. Scientists say the find holds the promise of many discoveries to come.
Police say they have discovered 300 dead cats stuffed into freezers at a man's Sacramento home.
When a construction crane collapsed, wrecking a Manhattan brownstone and killing a woman inside, there was scant hope any life would emerge from the rubble. Six other people died. But somehow, two cats survived.
Some people are natural pet owners. They grew up around dogs or cats (or rabbits or iguanas), and want the same companionship as adults.
Having learned a lesson about the birds and the beach, this Victorian seaside resort adopted a compromise plan Tuesday to protect both by keeping cats away from them.
Suspected by the feds of a few killings, Cape May's feral felines were all set to start new lives far from where endangered shorebirds nest.
As 2008 gets into gear, if you’re an animal lover and still stuck for a terrific new year’s resolution, here’s a great idea: resolve to book a vacation. However, not the usual two weeks in Mexico or Hawaii, but an itinerary that will benefit your furry, feathered or finned friends — and is guaranteed to be good for your soul. That’s what the latest travel trend, volunteer vacations, is all about.
It’s 11:00 a.m. on a Monday morning and Barbara Beath of Portland, Ore., and her yellow Labrador Retriever Maddie are waiting at the Gabriel Park Dog Park on the corner of SW 45th Ave., and SW Vermont Street in Southwest, Portland. There are other dogs and their owners milling about too—everyone holding a bag backed with their dog’s favorite toys, food and medications.
South Korean scientists have cloned cats that glow red when exposed to ultraviolet rays, an achievement that could help develop cures for human genetic diseases, the Science and Technology Ministry said.
It may not be a good idea to give a pet as a gift for the holidays, but you can't go wrong with giving your own pet a present. At least one name on your list won't complain about the wrong size or color!
A man captured neighborhood cats and kittens and fed them live to his pit bulls, authorities said Thursday. Tye Hilmo, 21, was charged Thursday with aggravated cruelty to animals.
Garfield, Morris and the Aristocats get the fame, but look to the origins of today's furry felines and you find "lybica," a Middle Eastern wildcat. Domestic cats can be traced to wild progenitors that interbred well over 100,000 years ago, new research indicates.
The many cats that roam the grounds of the Ernest Hemingway home include Ivan, Frances and Charley — all kittens born during the destructive hurricane season of 2004. But the home and museum's manager, Jacque Sands, has drawn the line: "We do not want one named Ernesto."
Gov. Don Carcieri signed a law Friday making Rhode Island the first state in the nation to require cat owners to spay or neuter their pets.
The fur really could fly on TV's latest reality entry: It stars cats. Ten felines, picked from animal shelters nationwide, will live in a New York house to vie — a la "Big Brother" or "Survivor" — for a grand prize, in this instance an executive-level job with Meow Mix cat food.
I love this article about metro Detroit's only pets welcome church and its minister.
Excerpt: "On New Year's Eve our cat Mashka stole a sausage wrapper from the table. At first we did not care about it, but several days later we began to notice that our pet was behaving itself quite strange.
Excerpt: An unlucky cat fell from the second floor of a Worthing block of flats before getting stuck inside the engine of a nearby car – all in the same day.
From September to December 2008, the vegan conservation groups Sea Shepherd, Animal Balance, and S.P.E.C.I.E.E.S. waged a fight to protect the ecosystem and all the animals of the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador.
A cat named Ugly Bat Boy has become a mascot at a New Hampshire veterinary office. Ugly is not descriptive of ths ...... aaa .....cat. See for yourself.
Because our basement is such a train wreck, when we moved in it quickly took on the role of Dumping Ground.
Thieves caused chaos outside a Somaliland mosque late on Thursday when they took advantage of a power cut to throw a stray cat into the crowd, triggering a stampede so they could rob worshippers.
A personal story of the loss of a faithful feline, and information on a hidden feline medical condition
Any female who mates with more than one male in rapid succession and then releases more than one egg can host babies with different fathers in her uterus simultaneously. It happens when one male's sperm fertilizes one egg and another male's sperm fertilizes a different egg.
Do the top executives at the MSPCA make too much money?
Two Lawton area teens accused of beating a cat and posting it on YouTube over the weekend will be going through the juvenile justice process in Oklahoma.
Becoming a "cat person" means renouncing your sanity, or so a quick skim of the Internet suggests.
LAKELAND -- Elijah is a 2-year-old cat that can sniff out sickness. The first thing he does when he meets someone new is smell their breath. He is focused on sniffing out diabetes.
Excerpt: Should American's pets be counted as an exemption or tax credit on taxpayers income tax forms? I happen to think they should.
Excerpt: In today's society there is no doubt that the human-animal bond is stronger than ever.
Upon their first exhibitions, some artists can't wait to elaborate on the intent of their work. Others are aloof, projecting an enigmatic presence. Cooper meows. Purrs, too.
These sweet images of people and pets (some really big ones!) together will stir you to remember just how important good friends are and how much we do need them. Music by James Taylor - "How sweet it is to be loved by you"
Good deeds need rewarding. We want everyone to know that the Upper Credit Humane Society has a friend indeed in Milton.
Authorities say a 33-year-old man was sentenced to a year in jail and then will be deported to Mexico for stomping a kitten to death in Redwood City, Calif.
The patron was reading about ways to restore his cream-colored convertible when Waldo, always the vigilant library staffer, climbed onto the table to lend assistance. (via American Libraries Direct)
It's finally your turn to make your cat do what you want.
ORMOND BEACH, Fla. -- A cat was tortured for more than 30 minutes and had one of its legs broken, and a 20-year-old man may soon face charges in the case, Ormond Beach police said.
When Egypt became part of the Roman Empire, the cult of cat-headed goddess Bastet crossed the Mediterranean. Its worship became so popular, overshadowing the reverence of the emperor, that eventually an imperial decree banned all cats. But some survived.
E'town Pet Center, a pet-supply store located in Elizabethtown, Ky., is providing free boarding for pets after a deadly ice storm ravaged the state last week, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of households.