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An Italian national who runs an animal refuge in Ukraine vowed to stay by his pets’ sides on Sunday, telling Argentina’s Clarin newspaper he would rather “die” in Ukraine amid its ongoing military invasion by Russia than leave the shelter.

A dog named Bullet helped save the lives of a clerk and a store manager in Philadelphia on Tuesday by engaging two armed suspects, the manager said.

Kenya Airways says it plans to stop transporting monkeys on behalf of a Mauritius-based primate farm after a recent such shipment suffered an escape of four cynomolgus macaques while in transit in Pennsylvania to a U.S.-based laboratory that uses the

Shocking video shows the moment a Florida man fought off a black bear on his porch, saving his dachshunds.

A wild sea lion with a reputation for showing up in “odd places” was found wandering a San Diego highway on Friday before a SeaWorld rescue crew corralled the animal.

Footage captured the moment a bull elk used its antler to ring the doorbell of an Estes Park home in Colorado.

Red crabs are causing traffic issues on Christmas Island in Australia as an estimated 50 million of the crustaceans are making their customary fall migration from the island’s inland to the coast.

A Peruvian family adopted what it thought was a pet dog, but after it began attacking neighbors’ chickens, the family learned it was a fox.

A wild video shows a U.S. Army veteran captured an alligator in a trash barrel outside a Florida residence. 

Moscow approved the “world’s first” coronavirus vaccine for pets, Russia’s federal veterinary service said Wednesday.

Police are searching for a man accused of sexually abusing two horses Tuesday morning in New Orleans, Louisiana.

PARIS (AP) — Armed with knives, some knowledge of their prey and a large dose of cruelty, attackers are going after horses and ponies in pastures across France in what may be ritual mutilations.

Around 200 caprine invaders descended on an east San Jose neighborhood Tuesday evening after escaping their enclosure.

A 16-year-old toy poodle, snatched from the deck of her home by a hunting hawk, was found alive the next day.

An unlikely pair of rescue animals have become the closest of friends, as one pigeon that cannot fly befriended a newborn Chihuahua puppy that cannot walk.

The head of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said that it is “derogatory” to call animals “pets,” and owners should instead call their beloved animals “companions.”

A seven-year-old girl from England raised hundreds of dollars for animals injured by the Australian wildfires by selling juice.

Vegetables were air-dropped to feed Australian wildlife recently after their food sources were burned by the bushfires.

The Irwin family’s wildlife hospital recently treated animal number 90,000 as wildfires continue to ravage parts of Australia. 

PETA is joining the New Year’s Resolution movement on the first day of 2020 by seeking pledges to be vegan for the month of January.

At least 15 horses were reportedly found shot to death Monday near a strip mining site in rural eastern Kentucky. 

A Colombian cat is being hailed a hero after it saved a toddler from tumbling down a flight of stairs on October 31.

A trained falcon defecated near Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday during a meeting in Saudi Arabia with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

Officials in Nevada are working to keep wild animals with the highly contagious chronic wasting disease (CWD) out of their state. 

The New York Police Department (NYPD) is asking for help in locating the woman who jumped into the African lion enclosure at the Bronx Zoo on Saturday. 

A rescue dog that spent nearly three years at an animal shelter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been adopted by a new family.

A vegan activist who “rescued” 16 rabbits has been accused of causing the deaths of almost 100 other bunnies in the process. 

Harvard Law School recently launched a new clinic in which students will be able to defend the rights of animals.

A 7-foot alligator did not deter a golfer from his game on Wednesday afternoon in Orlando, Florida. 

A Florida woman who pulled an alligator out of her pants during a traffic stop in May has been sentenced, reports said.

Swiss scientists have developed a vaccine for cats that could protect animal lovers allergic to them. 

Farm factories in China are breeding lions and tigers en masse and then harvesting their organs to meet the growing demand for traditional Chinese “medicine,” the NGO World Animal Protection revealed in a report on Tuesday.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has denounced fishing as a cruel sport, insisting that fish feel pain and urging all anglers to become vegans.

Animal rights group PETA is urging Hollywood toboycott In-N-Out burger after the Oscars because the fast food joints sell meat.

(AP) — An environmental group has sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to preserve federal protections for gray wolves.

PARIS (AP) – They were messengers, spies and sentinels. They led cavalry charges, carried supplies to the front, and died by the millions during World War I.