On Saturday, Calgary police duty Insp. Rob Williams was travelling on the northbound Macleod Trail near the 22X overpass when he spotted what appeared to be a large, multi-vehicle collision.
In fact, several cars had screeched to a halt when a tiny kitten, searching for a place to get out of the cold, had wandered onto [...]

SAN FRANCISCO – Scientists say they’ve made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that “think” like a living thing’s brain — an effort that tests the limits of technology.
Even the world’s most powerful supercomputers can’t replicate basic aspects of the human mind. The machines can’t imagine a wall painted a different color, for instance, [...]

WASHINGTON – A cat in Iowa has tested positive for H1N1 swine flu, the first time a cat has been diagnosed with the new pandemic strain, the American Veterinary Medical Association said Wednesday.
The 13-year-old cat apparently caught the virus from one of the people living in the house, the group said in a statement. It [...]

EDMONTON — To adopt a no-kill policy at the pound the city would have to find ways to increase pet licensing and reduce the number of strays and unwanted litters, says a committee report.
“Considerable program development, support and funding are required to achieve an outcome where no adoptable animal is euthanized,” according to a report [...]

HOBART, Australia – A cat named Clyde was reunited with his owner on Wednesday after a mysterious three-year odyssey in which the long-haired Himalayan strayed 2,400 miles into the Australian Outback.
Ashleigh Sullivan, 19, said she had given up hope of ever finding Clyde after he vanished when he was about one year old [...]

Despite the pigeon-holing, cats play piano on YouTube and have their own Facebook profiles, and kitties who tweet exhibit a working knowledge of sentence construction that challenges those of their human Twitter compatriots. So it was only a matter of time before a feline got around to earning an online high school equivalency diploma.
Rescued from [...]

In his golden years, 12-year-old Casper the cat has discovered a very efficient way to get around the English city of Plymouth. He leaves his house, trots across the street to the bus stop, waits his turn in line and hops on the city bus! The cat even has a favorite seat — in the [...]

Exactly one year minus a day from the day she disappeared, Princess Sophie returned to the Saskatchewan Association of Rehabilitation Centres (SARC) office in the airport district, mangy and skittish, with white-tipped scarred ears from weathering the brutal winter.
Employees at SARC adopted the cat and her freezing kittens in December 2007.
The kittens were adopted out, [...]

NEW YORK (AP) – One trip for their Jack Russell terrier in a plane’s cargo hold was enough to convince Alysa Binder and Dan Wiesel that owners needed a better option to get their pets from one city to another.
On Tuesday, the first flight for the husband-and-wife team’s Pet Airways, the first-ever all-pet airline, took [...]

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … cat?
A kitty in Chongqing, China, is getting some extra-special attention these days: The furry feline has developed wings! Though born looking completely normal, once the cat hit the age of 1, he began growing wing-shaped appendages on either side of his spine, the U.K.’s [...]