If there is a Loch Ness monster, she's feeling pretty good about herself right now. Robert H. Rines, the man who came closer than anyone to proving the existence of the fabled serpent, died last week at 87.
They enjoy the simple things: sleeping, eating, and meowing, so you will be surprised to discover that we can learn a lot from cats!
We humans are learning that our pets are pretty smart creatures. Not only have they managed to negotiate free room and board for life, they also help people heal and have learned how to communicate with us using our own language.
For all the joy pets bring into our lives, they can be very expensive I want to share ways to save money and keep your four-legged family members.
The fight to stamp out animal fighting marches on, and with renewed vigor. The HSUS and HSLF will not rest until holdout cockfighters in every state are delivered nothing but long felony prison sentences.
When Jack Frost "nips" at your nose, he really bites hard! Certainly you don't want a sick puppy. Best to prepare your four-legged loved ones from the winter cold.
The fellatio story on bats is a bright spot in an otherwise miserable record that denies animals the pleasure principle, homosexuality, and other forms of non-reproductive sex.
When Lou and I got home we rushed in, and there she was. She was filthy, had lost almost half her weight, and was covered in ticks.
Anyone who can do so little as bend a fork or move a piece of bread with his mind or prove that anything psychic, supernatural or paranormal of any kind exists or ever has, gets a million bucks.
Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is a triple marvel: the research is serious and far reaching, the writing clear, clever, accessible and in a few instances graphically ingenious, and the cause is genuinely important.
We believe that because animals can't write a book, compose a symphony, or do algebra that we're so much better than them. What a load of bullshit.
We searched all over for Pumkin. We drove around the mountain. We asked the neighbors if she'd been spotted. We went to the local animal shelter and looked for her.
When you're sick, there's nothing like a good adventure story to take your mind off things. But this is no made-up story. It's the very absolute true story of a cat named Pumkin.
Congress took two steps in recent days on animal issues, as part of its larger bills related to the Department of Defense and military spending.
That's me, with a week-old harbor seal pup whose mother has vanished, leaving him stranded and hungry. Cute, huh? And without someone to scoop him...
What if you found yourself without a vocabulary with which to express the immediacy of your experience? Well, then you might know what it feels like to be an animal living in a world dominated by Homo sapiens.
Out of this happy life lived with animals, I have learned some important animal facts. You may have realized them also and your own affection for creatures has shot up accordingly.
The author of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity examines new findings from primatology and neurobiology.
Sir Roger Moore has spent the past several years going after those who make their living by force-feeding ducks and geese, often until their livers burst, to create foie gras - French for "fatty liver."
After listening to the debate between Bill O'Reilly and Richard Dawkins, it struck me again that the resistance to evolutionary theory largely stems from the illusion that without God there can be no morality.
For some natural-born skateboarding dogs, this crude technique works. In other cases you end up with a dog that sometimes rides the skateboard and at other times tries to eat it.
