Animals

A 64-year-old woman was preparing to do her evening dishes at her home outside Bangkok when she felt a sharp pain in her thigh and looked down to see a huge python taking hold of her.

Debbie Dawson said she was driving north in the express lanes on Interstate 95 on Saturday, as the regular lanes were in standstill traffic, when she saw a car cross over the pylons right in front of her.

Debbie Dawson said she blacked out on impact, and later learned her car flipped over four times. Her beloved, 15-month-old puppy, Moose, took off. NBC6’s Bri Buckley reports.

Fans have flooded the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in eastern Thailand, where officials have warned they risk harming the celebrity hippopotamus.

The 3-year-old border collie has become something of an internet sensation in Brazil with hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram and TikTok.

For months, volunteers and animal activists have been donating items to help the more than 100 dogs braving the summer without air conditioning inside this shelter in Medley, set up to deal with the overpopulation of animals in Miami Dade County.

For months animal rights activists and volunteers have been complaining about conditions inside a Miami-Dade animal shelter that doesn’t have air conditioning. The shelter was supposed to be a temporary solution to deal with the overpopulation, but, as the situation persists, the Mayor is being forced to find a permanent solution.
 

People seeking treatment for substance abuse don’t have to give up their pets thanks to the work of volunteers in a Colorado-based organization.

Disturbing video posted to social media by Only in Dade shows a man appearing to abuse a dog on a balcony in downtown Miami.

National Dog Day is observed each year to celebrate the love, loyalty and companionship that dogs bring to our lives.

The Northern Bald Ibis, or the Waldrapp, once soared over North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and much of Europe. They were hunted essentially to extinction by the 17th century.

The National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa, is the place where scientists are pushing to solve the bird flu outbreak currently spreading through U.S. animals — and develop ways to stop it

The cubs were born on Thursday, the zoo said in a statement. They were born only 11 days after ultrasound scans showed that Meng Meng, 11, was pregnant.

To process the loss of his partner, Magic, 8, was taken to Sphen’s body “so that he could understand his partner wouldn’t return,” Dilly said.

Todd and Anna Giorgi run the Special Needs Senior Dog Sanctuary in Stamford, Connecticut, which gives love and support to senior dogs in need.

Celebrity dog trainer Tom Davis says pit bulls can get a bad rap. Here’s what makes them Davis’ favorite breed.

Cat behaviorist and former host of hit TV show “My Cat from Hell” Jackson Galaxy opens up on how cats changed his life and urges others to consider adopting from a shelter. “Whoever you are, I can find you a cat,” Galaxy says. “There is someone out there for you.”

Hong Kong has welcomed the births of its first locally born giant pandas. The theme park where the twins were born said their mother is the world’s oldest first-time giant panda mother on record. Ying Ying gave birth to the male and female pandas at Ocean Park on Thursday just a day before she turned 19 years old. Ying Ying...

Animal breeders say sales of pint-sized farm animals have grown since the COVID-19 pandemic, when more people started raising backyard chickens for fun and fresh eggs.

Dozens of dogs, cats and other animals living in poor conditions have been seized from a home in Connecticut.