Saturday, November 16 , 2024

Pets & Wildlife

A tiger is seen at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, La. The tiger has died at the age of 17.

Tony the truck-stop tiger dies at 17

A tiger is seen at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, La. The tiger has died at the age of 17.

October 20, 2017, 6:03am Life

A tiger kept at a Louisiana truck stop has died at the age of 17. Read story

Diamondback Brewing Company co-founder Tom Foster holds Inky, a cat the brewery received from the BARCS “Working Cats” program.

Program gives hard-to-adopt cats employment

Diamondback Brewing Company co-founder Tom Foster holds Inky, a cat the brewery received from the BARCS “Working Cats” program.

October 20, 2017, 6:00am Life

Not long ago, Inky the cat was so angry and frightened that the only way his rescuers at BARCS could handle him was by trapping the 4-year-old black cat with a net. Read story

Bighorn sheep graze near the Big Pines Recreation Area in the Yakima River Canyon in 2008.

Lawsuit: Bighorn sheep imperiled by domestic sheep grazing

Bighorn sheep graze near the Big Pines Recreation Area in the Yakima River Canyon in 2008.

October 19, 2017, 6:00am Northwest

The U.S. Forest Service is illegally jeopardizing a small herd of bighorn sheep with deadly diseases by allowing thousands of domestic sheep to graze in eastern Idaho as part of agricultural research activities, environmental groups have said in a lawsuit. Read story

Andalucia Yandell, 6, of Vancouver holds her pony, Trigger, who got loose Monday morning and led law enforcement on a chase near the Vancouver Mall. Clark County Animal Protection and Control captured the pony and found a foster home where he stayed until his owners could be found.

Trigger, the little pony, back home after chase near Vancouver Mall

Andalucia Yandell, 6, of Vancouver holds her pony, Trigger, who got loose Monday morning and led law enforcement on a chase near the Vancouver Mall. Clark County Animal Protection and Control captured the pony and found a foster home where he stayed until his owners could be found.

October 18, 2017, 2:07pm Clark County News

When Jaci Spooner told her daughter her miniature pet pony, Trigger, had run away and they needed to go pick him up Tuesday afternoon, the 6-year-old girl didn’t believe her. Read story

In this 2017 photo provided by the National Marine Life Center, a seal pup named “Giseal Bündchen” is treated at the facility on Cape Cod, Mass. Giseal, along with another celebrity-named harbor seal pup, was set free on a Massachusetts beach on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017.

Celebrity-named seal pups rehabilitated, set free on beach

In this 2017 photo provided by the National Marine Life Center, a seal pup named “Giseal Bündchen” is treated at the facility on Cape Cod, Mass. Giseal, along with another celebrity-named harbor seal pup, was set free on a Massachusetts beach on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017.

October 17, 2017, 4:43pm Life

Two celebrity-named harbor seal pups rescued in Maine earlier this year have been rehabilitated and set free on a Massachusetts beach. Read story

A remote camera captures a photo of gray wolf OR-7 in 2014 in eastern Jackson County, Ore., on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service land. State and federal wildlife agencies have fitted one of OR-7’s offspring with a tracking collar. U.S.

Officials track wolf OR-7’s daughter

A remote camera captures a photo of gray wolf OR-7 in 2014 in eastern Jackson County, Ore., on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service land. State and federal wildlife agencies have fitted one of OR-7’s offspring with a tracking collar. U.S.

October 15, 2017, 8:44pm Northwest

State and federal wildlife managers will again be able to track gray wolf OR-7’s Rogue Pack now that one of his presumed offspring is sporting a new GPS collar. Read story

John Prucich, a falconer and biologist who works at the Woodland Park Zoo and Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, on Sunday shows a Eurasian eagle-owl named Wednesday for Clark County’s Green Neighbors Program.

Presentation makes case for using birds, bats to keep pests at bay

John Prucich, a falconer and biologist who works at the Woodland Park Zoo and Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, on Sunday shows a Eurasian eagle-owl named Wednesday for Clark County’s Green Neighbors Program.

October 15, 2017, 8:25pm Clark County News

To talk pest control, Clark County’s Green Neighborhoods program invited the community to a presentation outlining the services of its two preferred contractors: owls and bats. Read story

Woodland Park Zoo to get two male rhinos as early as next year

October 13, 2017, 10:27am Northwest

For the first time in its 118-year history, rhinos are coming to the Woodland Park Zoo. Read story

In this Oct. 24, 2015, file photo, Dachshunds Eli, left, and Emily in Minion costumes participate in the annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade in New York. It’s a trick-or-treating tradition: Dump the night’s candy haul onto the living room floor to pick out the gems, or do some horse trading with siblings and friends. The excitement — and sugar rush — may leave humans unaware that all that candy might just be lethal for pet dogs and cats, however.

Don’t let pets raid candy haul

In this Oct. 24, 2015, file photo, Dachshunds Eli, left, and Emily in Minion costumes participate in the annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade in New York. It’s a trick-or-treating tradition: Dump the night’s candy haul onto the living room floor to pick out the gems, or do some horse trading with siblings and friends. The excitement — and sugar rush — may leave humans unaware that all that candy might just be lethal for pet dogs and cats, however.

October 13, 2017, 6:30am Life

It’s a trick-or-treating tradition: Dump the night’s candy haul onto the living room floor to pick out the gems, or do some horse trading with siblings or friends. Read story

How to dress your pets safely this Halloween

October 13, 2017, 6:05am Life

About 16 percent of American families celebrating the holiday will dress up their animal companions, according to the National Retail Federation. Read story