GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Social networking is helping Atticus Finch pay some of his emergency medical care bills. Mr. Finch, as the Muir family of Glenwood Springs calls its 7-year-old cat, was trapped outside his home June 25 by two neighborhood pit bulls. Anne Muir said she heard the commotion and rushed outside to chase ...

TEWKSBURY, Mass. (AP) — It’s Thursday morning at Tewksbury State Hospital, and patients are buzzing with excitement, already starting to line up. Patients will sit and wait in the hallways, so as to catch a glimpse of one of their most cherished visitors, who has developed somewhat of a cult following at the hospital: Tucker, a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Stephen Zawistowski got his first dog 50 years ago, she was the only dog in the neighborhood that was spayed. “She had an incision that must have been a foot long and was sewn up with what looked like piano wire,” says Zawistowski, science adviser for the American Society for the ...

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) — A Maryland dog is raising money for cancer after escaping from his yard and running part of a charity half marathon. The 3-year-old golden retriever-poodle mix named Dozer joined runners near his home, at mile five of the 13-mile race in Howard County near Baltimore on May 15. Runners reported seeing him ...

NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Boo and Riley are more than affectionate, protective family pets. To their owners, the specially trained dogs are a furry layer of security to sniff out peanut products and other life-threatening allergens. The dogs' Connecticut owners are among many people nationwide turning to allergy-sniffing service dogs, who accompany their handlers to ...