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A black cat showed affection by crawling up and down a Texas police officer in a friendly display captured on the patrol car's dashcam.

Neighbors ask if I will adopt turkeys again this Thanksgiving. I am not sure. I think of last year's turkeys lined up at the front gate with the dogs, greeting sunset passersby on their way to the Via bluffs. I think of Buster's patience when the turkey

The Australian Greens may have just made the Christmas lunch political, by urging consumers to take a stance against what they've described as "the miserable lives of millions of farm animals". The Greens are backing an Animals Australia campaign

A COUNCIL officer who shot six kittens and cats in an animal shelter should be sacked immediately and the mayor should go too for defending him, the RSPCA says. Mildura Council has defended the shooting of the

What do you get if you cross an octopus with an elephant? Well, in reality, probably nothing but a squashed octopus. But with its elephant-like appearance, it's easy to see why this odd creature, found more than a mile beneath the ocean, has been

Last July we brought a young bear to our Moon Bear Rescue Centre in Tam Dao National Park, in Vietnam. After several months in quarantine and rehabilitation, Yen Bai was ready to move recently - and now inhabits his very own "big bear's den" in the River

A moving video showing an excited dog welcoming a soldier home from Afghanistan has become a YouTube hit. Six-year-old Gracie, a golden retriever, is seen jumping into the lap of her beloved master Lieutenant Andrew Schmidt, rolling over and wriggling

On Wednesday night, Stephen Colbert took on the topic of what to do about climate change. In his segment, Formidable Opponent where he debates himself using a split screen, he comes to a stalemate over what Al Gore says about free market solutions to glob

It's a tough time to be a spectacled bear at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany -- at least, it's a tough time to be a female spectacled bear. Veterinarians are struggling to determine why the zoo's female spectacled bears have suddenly lost nearly all their