When we last left off, I'd dropped Lucy, the 8 week old Australian Cattledog with my parents after taking a week to train her through the puppy Learn ...
Wendy Diamond | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
These four tips will help keep your pet safe this Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, we do not have any tips to prevent your uncle from getting drunk and passing out in your yard.
AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Two Southern California cities have voted to ban the declawing of cats, joining San Francisco and Santa Monica which recently outl...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
20/20 recently treated its viewers to a condescending pity-party for the women it calls 'crazy cat ladies.' The segment, with an accompanying article online, was so over-the-top that it was almost a parody of itself.
Wendy Diamond | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
They enjoy the simple things: sleeping, eating, and meowing, so you will be surprised to discover that we can learn a lot from cats!
Matt Budd | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
It's normal to feel angry, normal to feel guilty, normal to feel sad, normal to hallucinate: That's what I learned recently when my cat Velma died.
Wendy Diamond | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
On October 4, 2009, International Fund for Animal Welfare and Leonardo announced a program that will protect animals and their habitats around around the globe.
Lee Schneider | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
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.
Sheila Lirio Marcelo | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
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.
Wendy Diamond | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
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 Guardian | Helen Scales | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green
The [seahorse] couple halt in the open water column and hold their bodies close, forming a heart shape with their touching snouts and bellies. Their f...
Maria Rodale | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living
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.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
I fear the fallout of this year's Great Recession has been forgotten and is now as dusty a memory as that of Black Tuesday, which occurred 80 years ago -- October 29, 1929.
Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books
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.
Maria Rodale | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
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.
Michael Markarian | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
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.
Michael Markarian | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living
There's no question that we as a society need to do more to help homeless dogs and cats find loving families, and we are even seeing the issue of pet adoption enter the public policy arena.
Newsweek | Krista Gesaman | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics
Kittens, brutality, fetish videos, and dogfighting--these aren't the elements of a twisted cable-television show; they're just some of the factors in ...
Wendy Diamond | Posted 10.03.2009 | Living
Bedside manner is as important to your pet as it is to you -- find a clinic that loves your animal as much as you do.
Caprice Crane | Posted 11.29.2009 | Comedy
I'm not looking for "tall dark and handsome." My package comes with a family -- complete with parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents -- maybe even throw in a dog for good measure.
Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York
How to make the animal control fundraising event sexy? Add some poker playing and join forces with a local Hooters restaurant.
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
As the Huffington Post continues to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we've found additional comp...
Betsy Saul | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
If you notice behavioral changes in your pet, such as chewing on items that smell like his or her companion or going to the bathroom in inappropriate places, he or she may have a case of the "back-to-school blues."
Lora Somoza | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
A lot of people tell me that Sophie won the lotto with me, or that I took great care of her. But the truth is, she took the greatest care of me.
Lea Lane | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
I once lost my poodle, Apricot, when Delta airlines said he had never been placed in cargo on a flight from Miami to New York. Seems they overlooked him de-planing, and Apricot flew on to Hawaii!
Sophia Yin | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living