Prospects for a happy life aren't all that good when "home sweet home" happens to be the ground around a dumpster. Yet that was almost the fate of seven new Best Friends pups. They were from a litter of nine puppies born in a rural part of Arizona where d

Recently, two horses from Best Friends' Horse Haven returned from Sheridan, Wyoming, where they each had surgery to treat injuries that could have meant the end - if they didn't happen to live at Best Friends.

Nine lion cubs, a grown lion and a young tigress made the almost 72-hour journey by road and air to start a new life in a natural environment. This Saturday morning, the big cats took their first steps under the African sun.

It's not news that America is a cowboy nation, but it may surprise many that we are destroying the horse we rode in on.

On May 20, 2008, Iceland announced that it would allow 40 minke whales to be killed over the next six months. This is in open defiance of the commercial whaling ban that the International Whaling Commission (IWC) implemented in 1986, and a reversal of the

Animal lovers call them a colorful part of the urban ecology, but the United Illuminating Co. wants a state judge to declare Connecticut's monk parakeet population a tenacious threat to public health and safety.

No less than 14 tiger cubs have been seen recently in Ranthambore National Park, a tiger reserve in western Indian state of Rajasthan.

Earl Simmons, better known as DMX, may not get the concept of "man's best friend." Through his music, Simmons glorifies the savagery, bloodletting, and cowardice of dogfighting. The following lyrics are from his song "Dog Match":

Following the dust stirred up by PETA and the national outrage about the very public death of Eight Belles from two snapped ankle bones, our appeals to the horseracing industry to make far-reaching changes in its practices have begun to have a noticeable

The National Marine Fisheries Service is once again considering a permit to allow swordfish longline fishing along the U.S. west coast in a critical habitat area for the critically endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle.