Animal Stories

An 11-year-old dog had spent his whole life on a chain, eating the family’s leftovers. This woman saw him and started visiting him three times a day. He was always so excited to see her — and six months in, his family agreed she could take him. Now he’s found a forever family!

A tiny, mangey puppy was found in a box. His foster mom and her pack of dogs helped him grow up into the most handsome and happy boy. That’s when she realized he’d been home all along.

A Staten Island dog named Buddy, the first dog to be diagnosed with COVID in the United States, has died, National Geographic first reported Wednesday.

Social distancing rules can make exercising a challenge for a blind runner who needs a volunteer tethered as a guide.

What’s better than a really loving pet? Two pets who can’t get enough of each other. Meet six pairs of inseparable animals from around the country.

Tik Tok influencer Shane Koch, who suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome, speaks on how adopting a dog changed his life and how his symptoms have all but disappeared after making viral videos with his pet.

When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the U.S. earlier this year, Sydnee Geril stopped bringing her service dog, Tulsa, to her chemotherapy treatments. The 25-year-old made the decision out of an abundance of caution; while the chance of spreading COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, through pet fur is unlikely, the American Ve...

There were plenty of acorns this spring, and now the chipmunks are driving people nuts. Their frenetic activities can be entertaining. But this summer in New England the varmints are making a nuisance of themselves, darting to and fro, digging holes in gardens, and tunneling under lawns. Plentiful acorns last fall meant there was still plenty of fo...

Common wisdom has long held that each dog year is equivalent to seven human years. But a new equation developed to measure how a dog ages finds the family pup may be a lot older than we realize.

Poor pup! Kona had an encounter with a porcupine earlier this week that ended with a painful recovery. The Veterinary Emergency Center of Canton, Connecticut warns that porcupines are native to that area. A porcupine’s quills are barbed on one end and require veterinary help to be removed, the vet advised. The veterinary hospital said Kona wa...

An 8-year-old Labrador retriever named Eros has become an essential worker in Medellin, Colombia, amid the pandemic