Canada's commercial harp seal hunt started today with a quota of 280,000 seals, only days after Russia decided to ban all hunting of harp seals under one year of age. The Humane Society of the United States confirmed the first seal death today.

In the latest indication of the deepening economic crisis in New York, a new phenomenon is on the rise: dognapping.

This is amazing. Proof that animals feel emotions.

Save the Manatee Club says it could be an indirect result of boat strikes, habitat loss and other threats that have shortened the endangered mammals' life spans, reducing the number of experienced mothers bearing calves.

One such animal suffering due to the financial meltdown is horses, majestic yet expensive animals. Hay and feed prices have escalated while owner incomes remain fixed or are declining.Tell Congress that our families including our pets need help accessing

Koko the gorilla may have made history when she learned to communicate using ASL, but we're even more impressed by a deaf puppy who has triumphed over adversity by learning to understand sign language

Aerial gunning is a brutal, barbaric and disgusting form of hunting. Hunters follow packs of wolves in helicopters and either shoot them from the air or chase them to exhaustion and then shoot them point blank. Hunters kill entire packs, including mothers

Fort Worth impounded 22,178 dogs and cats last year and euthanized 66 percent of them, or 14,546, according to figures released by the city's animal shelter

The wildlife exhibit at MacKenzie Environmental Education Center in Poynette has grown to include two bobcats born in captivity.

Many states, counties and municipal governments are turning to legislation targeting specific breeds as an answer to dog attacks. While supporters of this type of provision - commonly called breed-specific legislation - argue the only way to be safe from