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Children traumatized by the war pose for photo with an American Pit Bull Terrier "Bice" in the Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation in Boyarka close Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Bice is an American pit bull terrier with an important and sensitive job in Ukraine -- comforting children traumatized by the war. The Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation is a state-operated community center where a group of people are trying to help those who have experienced a trauma after the Feb. 24 Russian invasion, and now they are using dogs like Bice to give comfort.

Ukrainian kids get dog therapy

December 16, 2022, 6:02am Pets & Wildlife

Bice is an American pit bull terrier with an important and sensitive job in Ukraine: comforting children traumatized by Russia’s war. Read story

Gomi, left, and Songgang are unveiled Monday at a zoo in Gwangju, South Korea. The Pungsan hunting dogs, gifted by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un four years ago, ended up being resettled at a zoo in South Korea following a dispute over who should finance the animals' care.

Dogs gifted by N. Korea’s Kim resettle in S. Korean zoo

December 16, 2022, 6:02am Life

A pair of dogs gifted by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un four years ago ended up at a zoo in South Korea after a dispute over who should finance the care of the animals. Read story

Second Chance Companions is in need of more community volunteers to help foster cats and kittens.

Second Chance Companions seeks help after tragic fire

December 15, 2022, 6:01am Clark County Life

Following a devastating fire at the home of one of its main volunteers, local animal foster and adoption nonprofit Second Chance Companions is looking for community support, through donations and more volunteers, to get back on its feet. Read story

FILE - A group of manatees are pictured in a canal where discharge from a nearby Florida Power & Light plant warms the water in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Dec. 28, 2010. Wildlife officials said Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, that food, gear and supplies are staging along Florida's east coast to tackle the recurring, pollution-related starvation crisis for threatened manatees.

Florida manatees facing starvation fed through program

December 14, 2022, 4:55pm Nation & World

Along Florida’s East Coast, threatened manatees are fed and offered supplies through an unprecedented program that tackles the recurring, pollution-related starvation crisis, wildlife officials said Wednesday. Read story

FILE - This November 2014, file photo provided by the U.S. National Park Service shows a mountain lion known as P-22, photographed in the Griffith Park area near downtown Los Angeles. A mountain lion that killed a Chihuahua while the little dog was being walked on leash in the Hollywood Hills earlier this month is the famed cougar P-22, the National Park Service confirmed Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. (U.S.

Exam finds famed LA mountain lion P-22 may have been hit by car

December 13, 2022, 7:22pm Life

The famous Hollywood-roaming mountain lion known as P-22 is drastically underweight and was probably struck and injured by a car, wildlife experts who conducted a health examination on the big cat said Tuesday. Read story

FILE - This Nov. 2014, file photo provided by the U.S. National Park Service shows a mountain lion known as P-22, photographed in the Griffith Park area near downtown Los Angeles. Wildlife officials say Southern California's most famous mountain lion, P-22, will be captured and given a health examination after he killed a dog that was being walked in the Hollywood Hills. The state Department of Fish and Game says P-22's behavior has changed and he "may be exhibiting signs of distress." (U.S.

Los Angeles’ celebrity mountain lion P-22 captured in backyard of home, resident says

December 12, 2022, 4:47pm Life

P-22, celebrity mountain lion and Griffith Park’s most wanted big cat, was captured Monday morning in a Los Feliz backyard, the homeowner told The Times. Read story

Coyote that attacked 2-year-old in Southern California euthanized, officials say

December 12, 2022, 11:16am Nation & World

A coyote that attacked a 2-year-old in the front yard of her family’s Woodland Hills home earlier this month has been captured and killed, officials said Sunday. Read story

A black-footed ferret is held in a temporary trap prior to being vaccinated against sylvatic plague, a disease that periodically decimates populations of the highly endangered mammals, at a ferret reintroduction site on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.

Northern Plains tribes bring back their wild ‘relatives’

December 11, 2022, 6:02am Northwest

Native species such as swift foxes and black-footed ferrets disappeared from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation generations ago, wiped out by poisoning campaigns, disease and farm plows that turned open prairie where nomadic tribes once roamed into cropland and cattle pastures. Read story

FILE - Serena, a dugong, swims at the Toba Aquarium in Toba, Japan on Sept. 5, 2012. Populations of the vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said Friday, Dec. 9, 2022.

Dugong, coral, abalone face extinction threat, IUCN says

December 9, 2022, 8:14am Nation & World

Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said Friday. Read story

AKC offers tips for holiday car travel with your dog

December 9, 2022, 6:02am Life

It’s holiday season! That means more people traveling with their families — and that includes their pets. The American Kennel Club recommends the following tips for safe and enjoyable travel with your dog. Read story