Animal Stories

A passenger in Australia fell victim to the country’s pricey biosecurity laws after failing to declare their fast-food breakfast.

An app designed to help you find the purr-fect pet to adopt is now even easier to use just in time for NBC and Telemundo’s annual Clear the Shelters initiative.

If you’re a proud dog owner, you’ve probably gone on at least one walk that took far longer than expected because your dog was trying to sniff everything. But for dogs, smell isn’t just interesting — it’s the main way they learn about the world around them.

Dozens of dogs are closer to finding a forever home after they were released by a medical facility

Following a two-day road trip in an air-conditioned van, two orphaned bear cubs who had spent more than a year at the San Diego Humane Society’s Ramona Wildlife Center arrived at their new home at the Amarillo Zoo in Texas Tuesday.

A wayward seal showed up in Shoe Pond in the city of Beverly, Massachusetts, earlier this month after evidently traveling there by river and drainage pipe.

The singers visited the animal shelter that named a litter of puppies after them.

After Queen Elizabeth II’s death was announced on Thursday, Sept. 8, royal watchers and dog lovers everywhere had one lingering question: What would happen to her beloved pets?

The 13-year-old female chimpanzee escaped from Kharkiv Zoo on Monday, with zookeepers tracking her down about two hours later in the northeastern city’s Freedom Square, not far away. 

The 155 at-risk cats that were flown from overpopulated animal shelters in Florida to Massachusses and New Jersey were adopted as part of NBC Universal Local’s Clear The Shelters campaign. 

A young puppy dog had to be rescued from its own New Hampshire living room this weekend when the animal got stuck in a recliner, police said.

The kitten was named Harvey after the fictional two-faced villain in the “Batman” series.

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden asked the public to help name the new hippo and received thousands of submissions from around the world.