Dewey the Cat Dies in Librarian's Arms
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SPENCER, Iowa - The final chapter is closed on Dewey Readmore Books. The 19-year-old cat, who became a mascot for the city's library after being found in a book drop, died Wednesday in the arms of librarian Vicki Myron.
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Margaret Truman Daniel, the only child  of former president and famously proud father Harry Truman who  became a author of popular murder mysteries, died on Tuesday at  age 83, the Truman Library said.
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Cats can suffer from a feline form of Alzheimer's disease, according to new research by scientists.
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The search for a Bengal tiger on  the loose at the U.S. Army's Fort Polk in western Louisiana has  been halted because no one can find the cat, officials said on  Friday.
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How a hurt feline brought present and past together.
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KEY WEST, Florida  - A game of cat and mouse is under way between the U.S. government and Florida's Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum over the fate of dozens of felines roaming the former home of the Nobel Prize-winning author.
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Dozens of internet tributes are made to a one-year-old boy who was mauled to death by a family dog.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- In sad news for animal lovers, the San Francisco Zoo announced Friday that Emily, a 12-year-old female Siberian tiger, died Thursday night from unknown causes.
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Nearly two dozen crossbred lions are slowly dying in northern India from a mysterious disease afflicting the hybrid offspring of Asiatic and African cats paired in a discontinued experimental program.
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By Steve Vantreese, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Jun. 16-- -- Doug Travis' 60 years of service as a conservation educator ended the way he always said they would.   He died.
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Emily, a 343-pound Siberian tiger who her keeper considered the smartest feline at the San Francisco Zoo, has died at the age of 12.
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The mayor and two of his bodyguards happened upon a house fire and ended up rescuing a cat, helping a victim and warning neighbors, officials and witnesses said.
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Two young Royal Bengal tigers died unexpectedly at a zoo in India where dozens of lions have already died young, possibly because of a breeding program that produced weak animals, a conservator said Thursday.
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A cat cloned to replace a dead pet for a Texas woman stirs ethical debate. Also: Scientists discover monster cockroach and mini crab in Indonesia.... EU caves in on stronger fishing limits.... and more.
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Lab test confirmed that 23 tigers in a private zoo in eastern Thailand have died of infecting with avian influenza virus, officials said here on Tuesday.
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The mother of a 17-year-old boy killed by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo said the attack has forever ruined Christmas for her, while police are investigating whether someone helped the tiger escape. The area of the zoo in which the Siberian tiger killed Carlos Sousa has been deemed a crime scene.
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A man is choked to death by his pet boa constrictor at his home in the US city of Cincinnati, police say.