Pets and Animals

One stray pup is safe and sound this week after wandering around rural Pennsylvania alone and with her head trapped inside a plastic jar.

After more than two months of heartbreak and searching, Bam Bam, a service dog stolen from his blind owner in Logan Square, has been reunited with his family.

Recently, some wild rabbits have been seen in the U.S. with "horn-like" growths spurting from their heads that are caused by a viral infection, according to experts.

Several of the rescued Maltese dogs being cared for by the Humane Society of North Texas will be available for adoption at an event next week.

The gator weighed in at nearly 300 pounds. He's been relocated to a safer location, Texas Parks and Wildlife says.

A proud Pomeranian fearlessly protected his home – or more likely his food bowl – from a black bear who wandered inside.

The Humane Society of North Texas needs people to foster dozens of rescued Maltese dogs after a "severe animal cruelty case."

Due to a distemper outbreak, Dallas Animal Services is limiting the intake of dogs to only dangerous or critically ill animals, asking the public to help with temporary housing for healthy strays.

The marks extended up the child's arm.

A Dallas Police Animal Cruelty investigation led detectives to three properties in Southeast Dallas. Search warrants were executed at all three properties.

A zoo in Denmark is asking the public for donations of small pets to feed predators at the zoo.

A Hunt County dog will stay in SPCA of Texas custody while recovering from alleged violent physical abuse and neglect.

Wisconsin officials are calling off their two-week effort to trap a bear that attacked a 69-year-old woman in Barron County.

The Dallas Zoo's bachelor troop of four western lowland gorillas will be relocating to another AZA-accredited zoo later this Fall as part of a Species Survival Plan recommendation for the critically endangered species.

After a customer at the Ryde Hotel mentioned seeing two men grabbing one of the birds and putting it inside a cage on the bed of a pickup truck, the staff did a count and realized only four of their exotic birds remained.