SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society and The Espanola Valley Humane Society housed more than 260 pets during the evacuation of Los Alamos because of the Las Conchas fire. Although nearly all of the animals have returned to their owners, the effort came at a high cost. "We spent more ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — His name was Rocky, and he was a real-life underdog. The 8-week-old Siberian Husky-mix puppy was a stray found in a remote section of western Canada, "with nothing in his belly but worms on rocks," Brier Cadden wrote in a Feb. 7, 2010, e-mail. "No one wanted to touch him because they didn't ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Broken bones for dogs and cats may not be life threatening, but a trip to the vet can guard against more serious injury. Even for the most mild-mannered of pets, a car crash, fight or fall can be traumatizing and require extra care in handling, said Dr. Ann Hohenhaus, a New York ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Gabriela Dorame of Fullerton, Calif., got a German shepherd puppy named Bolto last year, she and her kids decided to have a microchip implanted in the dog with an identification number that makes it easy to reunite lost pets with owners. It paid off a day later when the rambunctious puppy ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — When Samantha Lowe’s 12-year-old Labrador retriever needed anti-inflammatories to ease her arthritis, she found herself facing the same question humans face when it comes to prescriptions: Name-brand drug, or generic? She did the same thing many people do: She chose the generic version to save money. “If a generic works as well as ...