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National

Hurricane Ian's havoc is forcing some Florida families to give up the family pet

11:32am October 04, 2022

by Scott Neuman

A shelter run by the Humane Society Naples is flying cats and dogs out of state to make room for a wave of new arrivals from families whose homes were destroyed and are now unable to care for a pet.

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A screenshot of a map showing case counts of COVID-19 reported in different animal species, part of an interactive COVID data tracking dashboard rendered by Complexity Science Hub Vienna. The drawings represent the type of animal, including both domestic

Health & Safety

How many animal species have caught COVID? First global tracker has (partial) answers

10:45am August 05, 2022

by Max Barnhart

Just as human counts are incomplete, so are animal counts. But the first worldwide compilation of animal cases is a start at understanding the extent of human-to-animal transmission, scientists say.

Rowdy the cat is shown here after being captured on Wednesday at Logan Airport in Boston. The cat escaped her cage as her family was returning to the U.S. after an Army deployment to Germany.

National

Rowdy the runaway cat is caught after weeks on the lam at Boston's airport

2:25pm July 13, 2022

by The Associated Press

The 4-year-old black cat with green eyes escaped her cage on June 24. She eluded airport and airline personnel, animal experts and safe-release traps until Wednesday.

Adoption events are planned as Guilford County animal shelter nears capacity

3:50pm July 12, 2022

by Keri Brown

A Ukrainian girl and her cat wait at the platform inside Lviv railway station in Ukraine on Sunday. An international cat federation is banning Russian cats from its competitions for the next three months over its invasion of Ukraine.

World News

The 'United Nations of cat federations' bans Russian cats from its competitions

1:40pm March 03, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

The Fédération Internationale Féline is temporarily placing restrictions on cats that were bred in Russia or belong to exhibitors who live there, in response to its attack on Ukraine.

Jessica Gerson-Neeves and her wife have been mired in a standoff for weeks with their three cats over a Vitamix blender.

World News

3 cats have outmaneuvered their 2 humans to hold a blender hostage for weeks

7:00am January 14, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Jessica and Nikii Gerson-Neeves don't want to end the standoff that has brought joy to so many people. But they also want to use their blender, which has been in a box in their kitchen since December.

Staff members at the Kabul Small Animal Rescue are working to put together travel crates so the organization's dogs and cats can safely be evacuated out of Afghanistan.

World News

An Animal Rescue Group Is Racing To Get Hundreds Of Pets Out Of Afghanistan By Aug. 31

8:58am August 25, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

Kabul Small Animal Rescue's American director is raising money to airlift more than 200 dogs and cats, the group's staff and their families before foreign troops leave at the end of the month.

For one English woman, her black pet cat was very lucky indeed.

World News

A Cat Led A Rescue Team To An 83-Year-Old Woman Who Had Fallen Down A Ravine

3:30pm August 17, 2021

by Josie Fischels

The black cat, Piran, stayed by where the woman had fallen and meowed until a neighbor discovered them at the edge of a cornfield in Cornwall, England, over the weekend.

Dog and cat adoptions grew in 2020. Pets have been constant companions — easing our grief and fears. Now it's our turn to ease dogs' separation anxiety, as we head out into the world.

Health & Safety

COMIC: Adopted Pandemic Dogs Got Us Through. Now They Need Our Help

7:00am June 19, 2021

by Sarah Mirk

Dog and cat adoptions climbed in 2020. Pets have been constant companions — easing our grief and fears. Now it's our turn to ease dogs' separation anxiety, as we head back out into the world.

Ash the cat selects the Kanizsa square stimulus — in other words, the illusion of a square — in a new study in which pet owners provided the data.

Science

Cats Take 'If I Fits I Sits' Seriously, Even If The Space Is Just An Illusion

4:58pm May 10, 2021

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

If you've spent any time around cats, you've seen them curl up in cozy spaces. A new study on feline cognition shows that they also like to sit in snug squares created by a kind of optical illusion.

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