Meggie was a mutt, but we loved her. My parents' rescue dog was a wild, scruffy gypsy, part Jack Russell, part who-knows-what, but no pedigree papers would have changed the amount of love she gave us.

It pays sometimes to be a big dog, like when a blizzard hits and you need to burn off energy. The President's Portuguese Water Dog got to enjoy the snowstorm that hit Washington, D.C. over the weekend. Long legs pay off.

A little girl holds the muzzle of her dog in her hands near an enclosure made for the pet in a partially built building in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Police say eight tigers and a lioness belonging to a Russian traveling circus have died during a 20-hour truck journey across Siberia.

Again the Olympic Committee has chosen a Country who skinned Animals alive for Fur. We are calling on the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee to help stop the Canadian seal slaughter. During Canada's annual war on seals, hundreds of thousands of baby

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was given Mashenka, an Ussuri tiger, on his 56th birthday last year.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's Siberian tigress Mashenka will be given a ten-kilogram meat cake for New Year at her home in the Black Sea resort city of Gelendzhik.

Raju the bear will never have to smoke cigarettes or dance on his hind legs under the hot sun again thanks to a multinational project to save an endangered species and end a cruel centuries-old tradition in India.

A man who shot dead a rare tiger in southwestern China was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined 580,000 yuan (85,000 dollars), state media reported Tuesday.

Authorities in Livno, in southwest Bosnia and Herzegovina, have decided to offer protection to a herd of wild horses in the area, after a petition was signed by over 8,000 activists around the world. The Livno authorities will provide budgetary