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After video showed a horse collapse as it pulled a carriage along a street in Manhattan, animal rights advocates are now renewing their push to ban horse-drawn carriages in the city.

The brown pelicans that washed ashore in California this year were half their normal weight, and many were anemic. “The vast majority of the birds were simply starving to death,” says Rebecca Duerr of the International BirdRescue’s wildlife center in San Pedro. But it’s not clear if the birds are starving due to overfishing, a changing climate or something else....

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers had to remove about 30 feet of fencing.

While the owner has said there is nothing wrong with the business, the town calls him a wannabe “Sloth King” (a reference to the Netflix documentary “Tiger King”) and has said some residents have accused him of mistreating the sloths.

More than 140 at-risk dogs and cats left New Orleans by plane Tuesday and are bound for New Jersey, where they begin their quests to find loving forever homes as part of the 2022 Clear the Shelters campaign.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and his family were among those who literally helped “Clear the Shelters,” adopting a beagle from a shelter after it was rescued from alleged criminal conditions two weeks ago as the 2022 campaign entered its home stretch. And now another 140-plus dogs and cats in need are arriving in the Garden State looking for forever…

After video showed a horse collapse as it pulled a carriage along a street in Manhattan, animal rights advocates are now renewing their push to ban horse-drawn carriages in the city.

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. 

Exclusive video shows a lost dog being claimed in a Bronx grocery store by a man who was not the owner. Checkey Beckford reports.

Animal welfare advocates are calling on Governor Hochul to sight a bill that would ban the sale of dogs, cats and other animals at retail pet store, Chris Jose reports.

Iconic “Price Is Right” host Bob Barker contributed millions of dollars through his charitable foundation to help open the Donkeyland Wildlife Sanctuary in Southern California.

A Long Island animal group is demanding and investigation after they said that Suffolk County workers “literally mowed down” more than 100 snapping turtle hatchlings.

If your heart sinks a little bit every time you hear New York announce a “first case” of something these days, you’re not alone. This latest development out of the Empire State needn’t make it sink further, but it is something of which state Department of Environmental Conservation officials urge you be aware. The agency confirmed Wednesday that a...

An overweight walrus affectionately known as Freya was euthanized by Authorities in Oslo, Norway.

Four loose pigs have been hogging up space in a western suburb of Chicago.

After video showed a horse collapse as it pulled a carriage along a street in Manhattan, animal rights advocates are now renewing their push to ban horse-drawn carriages in the city.

What started as a seemingly funny search for some weird-looking large cat roaming around Long Island has taken a dark turn.

Before Noodle the Pug and his “Bones and No Bones Days” were a viral TikTok sensation, Noodle was just another dog who needed a home. Jonathan Graziano talks about Noodle’s unexpected adoption story and the exciting life with a rescue dog.

A horse pulling a carriage along a street in midtown Manhattan collapsed in the middle of the road Wednesday, video showed, as the footage of the steed on its side restarted the heated debate over the future of carriage horses in New York City.

A new video showing a carriage horse on the ground is further igniting the debate over the future of carriage horses in New York City. Ida Siegal reports.