A High school in Maine is selling $10 raffle tickets for a 6-day hunting trip to shoot black bear!Do you think this is appropriate? Please vote in the web poll - right hand of the page on site.

A Puerto Rican judge has charged the owner and two employees of a city contractor with animal cruelty after the company allegedly took pets from a public housing project and hurled them off a bridge.

AWLMC works hard to save the lives of cats and kittens, spay or neuter them, and find them loving, forever homes. Objective: To end euthanasia of adoptable animals. ~ AWLMC Shelter, 18959 Bonanza Way, Gaithersburg MD 20879. (301) 740-2511 http://awlmc.org

Oil leaked from a cargo ship that bumped the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is washing up on beaches about 40 miles north of San Francisco, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday.

Activists contend the gas chambers are cruel because animals of varying sizes and weight are packed into the chamber. Because the animals absorb the gas at differing rates, some don't die while others die a slow death. Cobb shelter was cited specifically.

At the Buffalo Zoo, Surapa the Elephant paints Friday through Monday at 11:30 am in a special area -- a human zoo of shrieking, squealing kids -- next to the elephant enclosure. Surapa, a 4 1/2 ton Asian Elephant, arrived at the Buffalo Zoo from India

Far Away From Onlookers' Gaze, Relaxation and Reproduction Are Goals Of Zoo's $1 Million Cheetah Center Here, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, a lucky cat can stretch her legs, get two squares a day and enjoy the peace and quiet.

There is an "endemic feral cat population" throughout Sussex County One feral cat, itself the offspring of a stray or abandoned cat, could potentially give birth to 30 kittens every year It was one such colony of more than 50 cats at a house on Pelletown

A motorist encounters an animal on the road, swerves to avoid a collision, then goes off the road Police say it's a scenario they see often this time of year, and they are urging motorists to be alert, especially over the next several weeks.

The Animals Asia Foundation (AAF) sanctuary now taking shape is set to house an initial 200 animals on the edge of a national park north of Hanoi, where bears freed from captivity will be rehabilitated in a mountain forest setting.