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A cat kept its nine lives after it was rescued from a building fire on 5th Avenue around 5:30 p.m. Saturday.

New York City police officers on Sunday rescued a skunk that was hiding in flowers sold outside a deli in Manhattan. In a video shared on Twitter by user JoeDuncanNYCSGP, police officers are seen trying to locate the animal outside the Morgans Market store at 13 Hudson Street. The rescue occurred around 9:50 a.m., authorities said, and the uniformed officers…

New York City police officers on Sunday rescued a skunk that was hiding in flowers sold outside a deli in Manhattan.

The shift to the new site just up the road from Manhattan will mark the first time since 1920 that best in show at Westminster hasn’t been awarded at Madison Square Garden

Are you missing a parrot? Firefighters in Paterson, New Jersey, say they rescued the colorful bird from the top of City Hall on Tuesday night. The parrot was reportedly grooming itself when officials got to it. Authorities are looking for a possible owner of the large blue and yellow macaw. For now, they’ve named the bird Chewey. Photos from...

A U.S. Coast Guard crew rescued a distressed deer who had been caught in a current over the weekend in Clarence Strait, Alaska.

If you’re young and hungry, the place to go is New York City — even if you weigh 25 tons and have a blowhole. Whale watch captains and scientists around America’s most populous city say recent years have seen a tremendous surge in the number of whales observed in the waters around the Big Apple. Many of the whales are…

Train traffic through an NJ Transit station was briefly stalled Tuesday as transit police, local authorities and wildlife officials worked to rescue a 70-pound bear cub that had climbed up a tree, the agency’s police department said. The NJ Transit police, working with teams from various other agencies, managed to safely remove the cub from the tree at the...

A man was seen dumping eels into the Prospect Park Lake in Brooklyn by a witness who tried to confront him.

A witness says he recorded a man dumping dozens of eels into the lake in Prospect Park. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

A deer was seen running through Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend on Tuesday.

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

Three turtles made the 61-mile trip from a rescue center in West Orange to the seashore resort of Point Pleasant Beach, where they went back to their ocean homes after harrowing experiences earlier in their lives

Duke the calf and Rex the chicken have become an inseparable duo. KPNX’s Tram Mai reports.

Someone has been feeding raccoons near the 5 train tracks in the Eastchester section of the Bronx.

Air Force veteran AJ Kirrish once again finds himself in a battle. This time he’s fighting to bring his beloved dog, Harley, home following his combat tour in the Middle East. As Kirrish planned his return to the U.S., he arranged to have Harley flown back too. The Long Island veterans organization Paws of War helped him set up...

NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

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

The pair of pups — Zara and Stephanie — were saved from the streets of Russia, and quickly found themselves lost on the streets of New York City