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Pets & Wildlife

Animal abusers register like sex offenders in some jurisdictions

October 28, 2016, 6:04am Life

Starting in November, convicted animal abusers in the county that includes Tampa, Fla., will be easier to identify. Their names, photos and addresses will be published on a county-run website that is publicly searchable and similar to the online sex offender registries that have proliferated since the 1990s. Read story

Settlement could save millions of animals

October 28, 2016, 6:04am Life

Somewhere in America, a wild animal is about to die. Read story

National Pet Memorial Day helps owners deal with companion’s loss

October 28, 2016, 6:04am Life

The death of a loved one is never easy and, in fact, can be quite overwhelming. And it’s not just the people in our lives we grieve when they’re gone. Read story

Chief of Surgery Dr. Dean Richardson, right, and Medical Director Dr. Barbara Dallap Schaer guide a horse into a room to undergo a computerized tomography scan at the University of Pennsylvania&#039;s New Bolton Center Hospital for Large Animals in Kennett Square, Pa., on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Veterinarians hope an innovative type of CT scan can advance health care for horses and possibly be adapted for people.

Robotic scan for horses could hold promise for human health

Chief of Surgery Dr. Dean Richardson, right, and Medical Director Dr. Barbara Dallap Schaer guide a horse into a room to undergo a computerized tomography scan at the University of Pennsylvania&#039;s New Bolton Center Hospital for Large Animals in Kennett Square, Pa., on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Veterinarians hope an innovative type of CT scan can advance health care for horses and possibly be adapted for people.

October 28, 2016, 6:04am Pets & Wildlife

Veterinarians hope an innovative type of CT scan can advance medical care for horses and be adapted for humans, eliminating the need for people to lie still inside a tube. Read story

Zach Skow poses with his French mastiff Hooch on the red carpet at the 2016 American Humane Association&#039;s Hero Dog of the Year event in Beverly Hills, Calif. Hooch will be honored as Hero Dog of 2016 on the Hallmark Channel.

Starving mastiff had tongue cut, ears cropped, broken tail when he was rescued

Zach Skow poses with his French mastiff Hooch on the red carpet at the 2016 American Humane Association&#039;s Hero Dog of the Year event in Beverly Hills, Calif. Hooch will be honored as Hero Dog of 2016 on the Hallmark Channel.

October 28, 2016, 5:38am Life

The human nearly lost his life to drug and alcohol addiction. The dog, well, he nearly lost his life to humans. Read story

Keep your cat purring, puzzling

October 27, 2016, 5:56am Life

If you own a cat, you’ve probably heard that you should keep it inside — and if you live in Australia or New Zealand, you’ve definitely heard it. Veterinarians and rescue groups argue that it’s better for the cats, who can be slammed by cars, eaten by coyotes or poisoned… Read story

Sea otter Rialto thriving and ‘brimming with joy and life’ at B.C. aquarium

October 26, 2016, 10:45am Northwest

Rialto the rescued baby sea otter is thriving in his new home at the Vancouver Aquarium in British Columbia. Read story

Scott Reynolds of Environmental Canine Systems, left, and Fred Dillon, the stormwater program coordinator for the city of South Portland, Maine, inspect a stormwater drain pipe in South Portland. Remi, a dog trained to sniff out sources of water pollution, with handler Karen Reynolds, rear, detected human fecal bacteria in the pipe. Many communities across the country are saving time and money by using dogs to find sources of pollution instead of gathering samples to be sent to laboratories for testing. (AP Photo/Robert F.

Looking out for No. 2: Dogs sniff out fecal pollution

Scott Reynolds of Environmental Canine Systems, left, and Fred Dillon, the stormwater program coordinator for the city of South Portland, Maine, inspect a stormwater drain pipe in South Portland. Remi, a dog trained to sniff out sources of water pollution, with handler Karen Reynolds, rear, detected human fecal bacteria in the pipe. Many communities across the country are saving time and money by using dogs to find sources of pollution instead of gathering samples to be sent to laboratories for testing. (AP Photo/Robert F.

October 24, 2016, 9:00am Life

Some specially trained dogs are helping humans curb themselves. Read story

Washington University stops intubation training using cats

October 24, 2016, 5:39am Pets & Wildlife

Washington University in St. Louis said Monday that it has stopped using sedated cats to train medical students how to insert breathing tubes down babies’ throats, effectively ending the practice in the U.S., according to a medical ethics group. Read story

Center confirms cats out for the kill

October 21, 2016, 6:04am Life

When the Wildlife Center of Virginia, a hospital for native wild animals, took a close look at a decade’s worth of admissions records, it found the unsurprising culprits behind many of the thousands of injuries and deaths: cats. Read story