So says the American Academy of Pediatrics, which warns parents that many of the "easy" pets--the ones that don't shed, don't need to be walked, and don't throw up on the sofa--pose serious health threats to young children.

A farmer who shocked the country with his fake photo of the endangered South China tiger, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in north-west Shaanxi province, state media said Sunday.

PICTOU, N.S. - A moose that was being airlifted by conservation officers in Nova Scotia died after falling over 4.5 metres to the ground this week. The mainland moose, an endangered species, had been tranquilized by officers around Thursday as they tri

The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) and SA National Parks are calling on the public to help determine the numbers of the rarest carnivores in the Kruger National Park: wild dogs and cheetahs. Kruger, says the trust, is home to the only viable wild dog

The BBC's Natural History Unit cameras are in Kenya's Masai Mara Reserve for a week of live programmes - and already they have seen some astonishing sights. On Friday, one of the cameras set up to stream live pictures to the expedition's website 24 ho

Touching story about Harry, an old dog on his last legs...and why we love our old dogs so much. Article also has a wonderful slideshow of pictures of old dogs being themselves.

After 12 years of broadcast, Big Cat is going live! An unprecedented three weeks of live webcasting leads the way so you can follow the fortunes of Africa's biggest predators and their prey 24-hours a day.

For more then a month, Shepp, a German Shepherd, was chained on a concrete driveway with at an abandoned home with no food, no water, with a collar embedded into his neck causing a serious wound. Day by day the dogs suffering and pain worsened

The South Africa, Cape Town municipality will have a bylaw in effect by December 2008 that will violate the rights of dogs and cats, and violate the constitutional rights of pet owners.

A police officer didn't think much of a call to shoo off a bothersome "kitty cat" at a home in Casper, Wyo. Then the officer arrived at the home of Beverly Hood. It was no ordinary domestic feline -- but a male mountain lion weighing 80 to 90 pounds.