Why do people keep pets? Well, in the absence of specialized needs, such as service animals such as seeing-eye dogs, or working animals such as herders, or pest-control cats, most people have pets for ...

New York City parrot shop owner Queron Romain gets over a dozen requests per month to re-home birds whose elderly owners have become sick. Other times, the birds outlive their owners altogether.

Owners have been reminded to put their dogs on leads around flocks of migratory birds and seal pups on beaches [BBC] Dog ...

With images still fresh of pets struggling to survive alone in New Orleans' dirty floodwaters, local animal welfare workers — including those in Houston, Galveston and San Leon — made plans early this ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — What happens when a single homeowner dies, orphaning dozens of cats, dogs and exotic birds? In this case, Animal Rescue Corps moved in to save abandoned animals that ...