animal

Authorities say three Southern California teenagers are suspected in the baseball bat beating deaths of kittens. Los Angeles County animal control officials say the three kittens were killed in a Hacienda Heights home on March 7. City News Service says one of the three Glen A. Wilson High School...

(CNN) -- Terry Thompson, the Ohio man who authorities say set his exotic animals free just before killing himself, once supplied a lion cub for a photo shoot with supermodel Heidi Klum. "I wrote a letter to Heidi Klum's people," said Larry Hostetler, the executive director of the Animal Shelter...

(CNN) -- Authorities believe a large cat that has been spotted around the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, is a mountain lion that either escaped or was released from captivity. The cat was last spotted on the campus of the Brunswick School in the King Street area of Greenwich, according to a...

A Manitoba hog farmer has been fined $60,000 after pleading guilty to animal cruelty charges. That's almost double the previous highest fine levied for an animal cruelty case in Manitoba. In addition, Martin Grenier, 39, has also been banned from owning livestock for the rest of his life. "A...

FORT WORTH, Texas, -- A dog in Texas saved its owner's life by finding human help after its owner collapsed from a seizure and became unconscious, animal control officers said. Bear, a 5-year-old German shepherd, tried to rouse its owner, Debbie Zeisler, and then began scratching at...

Police killed a polar bear that was wandering in the coastal Labrador community of Hopedale Tuesday after it was deemed a threat to public safety. The large polar bear was photographed by residents and police as it walked between buildings in the community on the northern coast of Labrador...

http://www.wbaltv.com/r/26480661/detail.html COLUMBIA, Md. -- Police in Howard County recovered 78 rabbits living in poor conditions in a Columbia home. According to Howard County police, officers acting on an anonymous tip found 64 rabbits roaming free in the house this week. Police said the...

WHDH-TV - Dogs save girl from fox in Leicester LEICESTER, Mass. -- Two family dogs stepped in to save a little girl from serious injury when she was attacked by a wild animal. Angelis Proctor, 4, was walking up to her grandparents’ home when a fox latched onto her. “That was like the scariest...

Members of the group Animal Liberation Front have protested use of animals in research throughout the world. Los Angeles, California -- The FBI and University of California at Los Angeles police are investigating a new round of threats from anti-animal research activists who claimed to have...

MOBILE, Alabama - A visitor from the wild visited a Mobile couple and sent them running for help. Monday morning, the animal found a temporary home inside the couple's computer room in the Carriage Hills neighborhood. Even though the Halloween weekend is over, David and Linda Johnson had one...

http://www.wisn.com/video/25477939/detail.html MILWAUKEE -- Some Waukesha County residents are wondering what they've been seeing in their back yards. A woman from Wales snapped a photograph of an animal in her yard recently. There have been different theories as to what the image shows. Some...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Santa Cruz County health officials are issuing a warning after two bats found in Scotts Valley tested positive for rabies. The bats were picked up by Santa Cruz County Animal Services and may have come in contact with a domesticated cat. As a precautionary measure, the cat...

A 300-pound chimpanzee got away from its owner's home and spent a half hour on the streets Tuesday, smashing a police patrol car's windshield, Kansas City, Missouri, authorities said. "It was a bizarre lunch hour at 77th and Indiana today," Police Chief James Corwin's blog item began. Animal...

'Baby' gator trapped in Chicago CHICAGO, Animal control officers trapped an alligator in the Chicago River early Friday with one witness describing the reptile as "just a baby." The alligator was reported by a passerby Thursday morning and animal control officers made a brief sighting later...

Expert: 'Chupacabra' a coyote-dog hybrid CRESSON, Texas, A Texas animal control officer said a hairless creature that sparked chupacabra rumors was a canine-coyote hybrid with mange. Cresson code enforcement officer Johnny Collins said he spotted the animal enter a barn July 7 and called...

Woman mailed animal parts to rival ST. LOUIS, (UPI) -- A Missouri woman who pleaded guilty to three counts of mailing a threatening communication admitted to mailing animal parts to a romantic rival. St. Louis prosecutors said Jessica Bradshaw, 39, of Lincoln County, sent threatening notes...

Ducks bring freeway traffic to halt ORANGE, Calif., (UPI) -- Highway patrol officers in Southern California say they needed help recently with a traffic jam -- a mother duck and six ducklings in traffic lanes. As animal control workers headed for the freeway Friday night, California Highway...

South Dakota, others auction animal parts PIERRE, S.D., (UPI) -- South Dakota has joined several other states and the U.S. government in holding auctions for wild animal parts found or confiscated by wildlife officers. Andy Alban of the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish & Parks said the...

So, earlier today, I was watching one of my family's cats hitting a cord hanging from our blinds for about 10 minutes or so, and I started thinking 'Jesus, the ****ing stupid animal is so **** easily amused' And then I realized that I'd been staring at a cat playing with a string for ten minutes.

Now here is a very short video that will make your heart pulse a little. A heart-warming animal story, preceded by a 15 second commercial. The Animal Odd Couple Video - CBSNews.com