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Pets & Wildlife

Is it safe to feed fish to cats? The great debate

October 19, 2018, 6:00am Life

Dear Joan: I’ve never fed my cats any fish-based pet foods due to advice from a vet over 30 years ago. Too much ash for the male cat’s urinary tract, etc. The manufacture of pet food has changed since then, but when researching via the internet I find conflicting information.… Read story

A black bear in the habitat it’s supposed to be in.

Animals can show up anywhere

A black bear in the habitat it’s supposed to be in.

October 19, 2018, 6:00am Life

And now, from the Animals-in-all-the-Wrong-Places Department, let’s start with the giraffe. Read story

Family fighting confiscation of bobcat

October 19, 2018, 6:00am Life

They got Al Capone on tax evasion, but Capone the Bobcat was taken into custody on a different charge last month. Read story

Five-month-old Sophia, who was a part of a transfer of pets from Texas, greets visitors at the Humane Society for Southwest Washington in May.

Humane Society plans major expansion

Five-month-old Sophia, who was a part of a transfer of pets from Texas, greets visitors at the Humane Society for Southwest Washington in May.

October 18, 2018, 7:55pm Clark County Business

Low-income people could get veterinary treatment for their pets in a proposed expansion of the Humane Society for Southwest Washington clinic, according to a plan outlined Thursday. Read story

Dogs and postal carriers just don’t mix, and the reason why has to do with defense of territory.

Why dogs seem to hate mail carriers

Dogs and postal carriers just don’t mix, and the reason why has to do with defense of territory.

October 12, 2018, 6:02am Life

Recently, a noise outside my front door set my dog, Bailey, to barking. I looked out the peep hole and didn’t see anyone, but when I opened the door, there was a package on the welcome mat. Read story

A can of ravioli was apparently too much temptation for a raccoon in southwest Florida. His head got stuck in the can but someone in Port Charlotte took the raccoon to a wildlife center where the can was clipped.

Raccoon ravioli? Animal hungry for pasta gets head stuck in a can

A can of ravioli was apparently too much temptation for a raccoon in southwest Florida. His head got stuck in the can but someone in Port Charlotte took the raccoon to a wildlife center where the can was clipped.

October 12, 2018, 5:27am Pets & Wildlife

A nosy raccoon in southwest Florida got into a tight squeeze when he stuck his snout inside a ravioli can and couldn’t get it out. Read story

A female brown bear known as 409 Beadnose swelled over three months of devouring salmon in Katmai National Park and Preserve. She won the park’s Fat Bear Week contest this week for the second time in four years of the weeklong contest.

America’s fattest bear has been crowned

A female brown bear known as 409 Beadnose swelled over three months of devouring salmon in Katmai National Park and Preserve. She won the park’s Fat Bear Week contest this week for the second time in four years of the weeklong contest.

October 10, 2018, 5:27pm Life

An Alaskan brown bear known as 409 Beadnose had her hands full with two new cubs in the summer of 2016. They remained at her side when she emerged from hibernation last year and set about fishing for sockeye salmon in Katmai National Park and Preserve. In other words, Beadnose… Read story

This Oct. 3, 2018, photo provided by The Marine Mammal Center hospital director Claire Simeone shows a gecko on a phone at the center in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. The gecko is the culprit in making numerous calls in the phones' recent call history with his tiny feet.

Gecko butt-dials ‘bazillion’ times from Hawaii seal hospital

This Oct. 3, 2018, photo provided by The Marine Mammal Center hospital director Claire Simeone shows a gecko on a phone at the center in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. The gecko is the culprit in making numerous calls in the phones' recent call history with his tiny feet.

October 9, 2018, 2:07pm Life

If you got incessant phone calls last week from a hospital that cares for Hawaiian monk seals, you were butt-dialed. Read story

An abandoned lion cub is caged after being found in a field, near Tienhoven, Netherlands. A jogger’s run through the Dutch countryside turned into a walk on the wild side when he discovered a lion cub in a field. Police say the young cub was found Sunday in a cage dumped in a field near Tienhoven between the central cities of Utrecht and Hilversum. Police have taken to Twitter to appeal for help in tracing the animal’s owner, while the young cub, a male believed to be about five months old, is being cared for by a foundation that looks after big cats.

Walk on the wild side: Dutch jogger runs into lion cub

An abandoned lion cub is caged after being found in a field, near Tienhoven, Netherlands. A jogger’s run through the Dutch countryside turned into a walk on the wild side when he discovered a lion cub in a field. Police say the young cub was found Sunday in a cage dumped in a field near Tienhoven between the central cities of Utrecht and Hilversum. Police have taken to Twitter to appeal for help in tracing the animal’s owner, while the young cub, a male believed to be about five months old, is being cared for by a foundation that looks after big cats.

October 8, 2018, 10:16am Life

A jogger’s run through the Dutch countryside turned into a walk on the wild side when he discovered a lion cub in a field. Read story

Animal welfare workers save 71 beagles crammed in small home

October 8, 2018, 9:58am Life

Animal welfare workers removed 71 beagles from a cramped house in rural Pennsylvania, where officials say a woman had been breeding them without a license before she died last month. Read story