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Perfume-ingesting canine is in the running for an insurer’s award

September 18, 2015, 6:00am Life

Jackie, a Manchester terrier mix who ingested perfume, is vying with a tape-eating cat and other reckless animals in the latest contest for the most unusual pet insurance claim of the year. Read story

Keepers at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington on Monday weigh the giant panda cub born Aug. 22.

Giant panda cub grows to 2 pounds

Keepers at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington on Monday weigh the giant panda cub born Aug. 22.

September 18, 2015, 6:00am Life

The 4-week-old giant panda cub at the Smithsonian's National Zoo now weighs nearly 2 pounds and is starting to look like a panda -- specifically, his dad. Read story

In this Aug. 18, 2015, photo provided by Southeastern Guide Dogs, Michael Jernigan strokes the head of his guide dog Treasure as he navigates the streets of Tampa, Fla., with Southeastern Guide Dogs training director Rick Holden. Jernigan lost his eyesight and part of his brain when a roadside bomb ripped into his Humvee in Iraq in 2004. He has undergone more than 30 surgeries. But he insists, thanks to a couple of dogs, he found more than he lost.

What bomb takes away, guide dogs return

In this Aug. 18, 2015, photo provided by Southeastern Guide Dogs, Michael Jernigan strokes the head of his guide dog Treasure as he navigates the streets of Tampa, Fla., with Southeastern Guide Dogs training director Rick Holden. Jernigan lost his eyesight and part of his brain when a roadside bomb ripped into his Humvee in Iraq in 2004. He has undergone more than 30 surgeries. But he insists, thanks to a couple of dogs, he found more than he lost.

September 18, 2015, 6:00am Health Wire

Michael Jernigan lost his eyesight and part of his brain in Iraq in 2004. But he insists, thanks to a couple of dogs, he found more than he lost. Read story

In this Aug. 13, 2015 photo made available by the University of Central Florida, a green turtle hatchling makes its way to the Atlantic Ocean at the Archie Carr Wildlife Refuge in Melbourne, Fla. Florida's nesting season still has a month to go, but scientist have already counted a record 12,000 nests dug by endangered green turtles. Other turtles have also had a nesting comeback in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

Sea turtles setting nesting records

In this Aug. 13, 2015 photo made available by the University of Central Florida, a green turtle hatchling makes its way to the Atlantic Ocean at the Archie Carr Wildlife Refuge in Melbourne, Fla. Florida's nesting season still has a month to go, but scientist have already counted a record 12,000 nests dug by endangered green turtles. Other turtles have also had a nesting comeback in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

September 17, 2015, 6:10am Life

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Wildlife biologist Doug Hoffman and his two interns kept busy this summer finding, cataloging and protecting a whopping 570 nests that giant loggerhead sea turtles had filled with eggs along the unspoiled beaches of Cumberland Island. Read story

Susan Kinney owns Geese Police, a business that uses border collies to rid homes and businesses from geese. The dogs will chase the geese off by running around them and and even swimming out after them. They are trained not to touch the geese, including Rocky, who bounds around the perimeter of a Pewaukee, Wisc., pond on Aug. 24.

Border collies use instincts to scare away geese

Susan Kinney owns Geese Police, a business that uses border collies to rid homes and businesses from geese. The dogs will chase the geese off by running around them and and even swimming out after them. They are trained not to touch the geese, including Rocky, who bounds around the perimeter of a Pewaukee, Wisc., pond on Aug. 24.

September 16, 2015, 5:58am Life

As a squadron of pests flies overhead, Susan Kinney's three employees spring into action. Read story

4-year-old ferret has lost her get up and go

September 11, 2015, 6:00am Life

Ferrets continue to increase in popularity as companion animals in California and elsewhere. This despite their status as illegal pets in California (and a few others states or cities). The logic as to their illegal status has escaped me, having worked to change this status over the past many years… Read story

How to capture pet poses

September 11, 2015, 6:00am Life

Your pet is doing that thing again. It's the cutest thing ever, and it must be snapped, shared and forever immortalized on social media. Here are some tips for getting that perfect pet shot. Read story

This July 29, 2015 photo provided by National Geographic Channels shows Aziza Glass, a doctor of veterinary medicine candidate at Cornell University, class of 2015, posing for a photo in Los Angeles. &quot;Vet School&quot; is a new Nat Geo Wild series that follows a group of students through rotations at prestigious Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. The one-hour show premieres Sept.

‘Vet School’ goes inside Cornell program

This July 29, 2015 photo provided by National Geographic Channels shows Aziza Glass, a doctor of veterinary medicine candidate at Cornell University, class of 2015, posing for a photo in Los Angeles. &quot;Vet School&quot; is a new Nat Geo Wild series that follows a group of students through rotations at prestigious Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. The one-hour show premieres Sept.

September 11, 2015, 6:00am Entertainment

A new Nat Geo Wild series premiering Sept. 19 follows a group of students through rotations at the prestigious Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. Read story

Veterinarian Thomas Meyer examines a Shagya Arabian horse before surgery at Mountain View Veterinary Hospital on Tuesday, September 8, 2015. Meyer was recently named president-elect of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

Vancouver veterinarian a leader among his peers

Veterinarian Thomas Meyer examines a Shagya Arabian horse before surgery at Mountain View Veterinary Hospital on Tuesday, September 8, 2015. Meyer was recently named president-elect of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

September 9, 2015, 10:00am Clark County News

Thomas Meyer has devoted more than 35 years of his life to caring for animals across Clark County. Fresh out of college, he and his wife, Jean, opened Mountain View Veterinary Hospital in the garage of their Ridgefield home in 1979. Read story

Demonstrators heckled one of Walter Palmer's patients, Thomas Dressel, right, who paused to speak to the media, outside Palmer's dental practice Tuesday in Bloomington, Minn. One said &quot;I bet he has a confederate flag in his car window.&quot; He pointed out that he did not. Palmer, after weeks out of the public eye, was the subject of an international uproar after he was identified as the hunter who killed the famous lion Cecil, in Zimbabwe.

Minnesota dentist who killed beloved lion returns to work

Demonstrators heckled one of Walter Palmer's patients, Thomas Dressel, right, who paused to speak to the media, outside Palmer's dental practice Tuesday in Bloomington, Minn. One said &quot;I bet he has a confederate flag in his car window.&quot; He pointed out that he did not. Palmer, after weeks out of the public eye, was the subject of an international uproar after he was identified as the hunter who killed the famous lion Cecil, in Zimbabwe.

September 8, 2015, 11:15am Nation & World

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- The Minnesota dentist who killed Cecil the lion returned to work Tuesday after weeks away, walking silently past a swarm of media and a handful of protesters outside his small dental practice calling for him to be sent to Zimbabwe to face trial. Read story