Selling dogs and cats can be highly profitable, making them ripe for exploitation. In the UK, breeding and sale are regulated ...

The Animal Care Act requires companion animal breeders to be licensed, and to meet basic standards for housing and veterinary care. But in practice, those lifesaving licensing requirements have not ...

Brian and Rebekah Snyder of Lancaster own a pet skunk named Buttons they take to local parks and various events.

H7N9 — is detected in at a poultry farm; scientists learn that past human flu exposure may provide some immunity to H5N1.

"We got her from a breeder here locally here in Ohio," Snyder ... "I always say she's kind of across a cat and a ferret," he ...

But when a breeder flock picks up that virus ... In the positive news that came out this week, a team of international ...

Fort Worth officials have closed two animal shelters to the public while they deal with an outbreak of canine distemper. The ...

ferrets, rabbits, reptiles, exotic animals, snakes, birds and chickens and wildlife. The measure’s overarching goals are to crack down on unscrupulous backyard and hobby breeders, along with ...

Social media makes it easy to believe luxury pets live better than most humans, but behind the glam shots is a reality that’s ...