PET owners are being warned to be aware of people using pets as bait to train their dogs for illegal dog fighting. The warning comes after one woman saw her cat being mauled by three dogs, egged on by their owners to kill.

Buddy Lou, a 10-year old tabby cat, has become the first feline death from H1N1 in the United States. It appears the cat acquired the H1N1 virus from the owner's niece who had been sick with an influenza-like illness the previous week.

A Maple Grove man beat his girlfriend's cat so badly that it had to be euthanized. And three other cats in the home mysteriously disappeared. Now he's going to spend 30 days in jail to think about the poor kitten who is probably still crying after he put

One local woman is being called a hero after she rescued a kitten from under a car. But the car wasn't sitting in traffic or a parking lot. It was going 70 mph on Interstate 95.

A Quispamsis, N.B., man says his dog is lucky to be alive after being shot about 40 times at close range with a BB gun. Al McAlpine discovered the injuries earlier this week after his dog Maggie developed a large growth on her neck.

If you think it is not possible for your dog to lose weight, think again because Barney, the Dalmatian, is living proof that overweight dogs can indeed lose weight and become healthy again. According to People Pets, Barney used to weigh 154 pounds which

Sometimes it seems as though we have a constant stream of stories in the news about animals being abused or neglected. But after the puppy mill bust or dog-rescued-from-a-hot-car story airs, where do the animals end up?

The Himalayan black bears are an endangered species that are slowly dying out. Currently, they are only 300 of the bears remaining in India. To protect them and help keep them from going extinct, they are being tracked using GPS collars throughout Kashmir

It has been 22 years since the last 22 California condors (Gymnogyps californianus) were collected from the wild and placed in captive breeding programs. The species, which nearly went extinct due to habitat loss, poaching, DDT and lead poisoning,

An environmental group is threatening to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its failure to respond to a petition involving the Mexican gray wolf. The Center for Biological Diversity had filed a petition asking the agency to list the