ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. - The Army is suspending outdoor weapons testing at a northern New Jersey base after a wayward artillery shell fragment crashed through the roof of a home miles away, fatally injuring a pet cat, the base’s commanding officer said Saturday.
Picatinny Arsenal officials will investigate how a 2-pound piece of an artillery […]

An investigation is ongoing after more than 60 cats — 41 dead and 20 alive — were taken from a downtown home on Saturday.
Police arrived at the house at 111th Avenue and 96th Street around 4 p.m. to respond to a report of a break-and-enter, said EPS Sgt. Guy Kinney.
Once inside, officers made a gruesome […]

Ponoka (Alberta, Canada) RCMP are looking for the public’s help after someone hung a cat from a light post on a busy downtown street.
On Saturday, the manager of the Fields store in Ponoka called police at about 10:30 a.m. after a customer spotted the tabby cat hanging by its neck from a light post nearby.
RCMP […]

SHELBURNE FALLS, Mass. - When Gary Mikus learned that an incurable nerve disease was starting to paralyze the hind legs of his German shepherd, he immediately dismissed the idea of putting the dog to sleep.
Then he spotted an ad in a pet food store: “Eddie’s Wheels For Pets. Help for Handicapped Pets.” Now the dog […]

Shocking but true: Earlier this week, 800 small dogs were seized from a filthy triple-wide trailer in Tucson, Ariz., where the elderly residents were overwhelmed trying to care for the animals. Also this week, Kentucky police found 117 starving and diseased dogs during a raid of a local animal shelter.
What explains behavior like this? […]

(AP) — People struggling to get rid of recurrent staph infections might want to consider an often-overlooked source: the family pet.
A German woman repeatedly battled the same strain of drug-resistant superbug MRSA until her cat was tested and treated.
It’s one of the few documented cases of transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus between a person […]

PHOENIX - A cat that took a three-week ride across the United States in a storage container is headed home to Florida.
Humane Society officials in the state of Arizona say the 2-year-old gray cat crawled into the locker in Pompano Beach, Fl. while a man loaded it for a move to Phoenix. The container spent […]

(WCCO) More than 80 million Americans are pet owners. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, we spent nearly $25 billion on veterinary care for our pets in 2006. Just for vet care!
At one point, animals served a largely utilitarian purpose. People had a horse to pull the cart, dogs protected the farm and […]

The roots of the domesticated cat’s family tree all converge in the Middle East, with many surprising ancestral twists and turns along the way, reveals a new genetic study on house kitties that included purebreds, mutts and even feral felines.
The study, one of the most extensive of its kind, used 39 genetic identity markers identified […]

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - Two Chinese businesses and a U.S. company were indicted Wednesday for their roles in making and importing a pet food ingredient that resulted in animal deaths last year.
Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co., Suzhou Textiles, Silk, Light Industrial Products, Arts and Crafts I/E Co., and Las Vegas-based ChemNutra Inc. were […]