Animal Stories

“No relationship really lasts for me the past years, especially with ‘SNL.’ I’m always heartbroken,” said “Saturday Night Live” actress Melissa Villaseñor. “I would speak with Cecily [Strong], and Cecily said, ‘I think everyone on the cast should have a dog.’” 

Over the past three years, the island of Puerto Rico has faced mounting disasters – the devastating Hurricane Maria in 2017, several large earthquakes and aftershocks in 2020, and, most recently, the coronavirus pandemic. The disasters have left non-profit animal rescue groups like Animal Lighthouse Rescue with a big problem on their hands as the p...

After a close call, a Glendale grandmother feels grateful for her dog Sandy and for a city sanitation worker, who happened to be at the right place at the right time.

A rat has for the first time won a British charity’s top civilian award for animal bravery, receiving the honor for searching out unexploded landmines in Cambodia

A Malaysian student whose cellphone was stolen has tracked down the culprit: a monkey who took photo and video selfies with the device before abandoning it

St. Louis Zoo officials are trying to solve the mystery of how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs without being around a male python for at least two decades.

An animal welfare group says that Kaavan the elephant, who has become a cause celebre for animal activists around the world, will be allowed to leave his Pakistani zoo and transferred to better conditions

A new study shows that teenage male elephants aren’t as anti-social as once thought

An organization in Lebanon has been helping reunite owners and pets after a large explosion decimated Beirut, killing at least 170 people and making over 300,000 homeless

When this guy decided to foster an adorable gray pittie, he fell in love. Chara got along so well with his own pittie that he was really tempted to foster fail. But he wanted to be able to foster more dogs and Chara found a great family with another pittie sibling.

A guy tried for days to rescue a stray dog he saw roaming the neighborhood. The dog kept running away — until his best friend showed up. The guy started fostering both dogs and one of them (Francis) is still looking for a home.

This guy has nine dogs of his own, and he decided to foster one more. Sammy’s an adorable pittie who was scared of everything because of his past. But he quickly started having fun with his foster family — who decided to keep him forever.