Sixty-five percent of households in the U.S.—almost 80 million families—own a pet today, according to a survey by the American Pet Products Association. In addition to offering unconditional love and ...

Jun. 19—Feeling around inside the mouth of a cow, listening to the heartbeats of horses and making dog biscuits were just some of the experiences for youth recently during Vet Camp at Coahulla Creek ...

Brenda Powers’ Commentary about what schools can learn from exotic-animal trainers (“We Are All Shamu,” Oct. 18, 2006) took me back to a valley floor in Northern Thailand, where I once watched an old ...

WACO — Fifteen-year-old Michael Estill knew his steer wouldn't be the prizewinner at the Heart O' Texas Livestock Show when he chose him. To the other residents of the Methodist Children's Home Boys ...

Source: Vincent M.A. Janssen/Pexels. Many of the nonhuman animals (animals) with whom we share our homes and other landscapes are often mistakenly written off as being unimportant and disposable ...

I well remember watching Christchurch unrelentingly exploding and imploding all over the place as the February 2011 earthquakes devastated the city. As a result of the earthquakes and aftershocks that ...

The remarkable skills that animals possess, which make them survive and thrive in the wild, offer great lessons for us Animals have been our companions since time immemorial. The biological and ...