Californians may be forced to neuter pets
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California may become the only  U.S. state to require the sterilization of pets under a bill  passed by the state Assembly, pitting dog and cat lovers  against animal rights activists.
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SACRAMENTO - The federal government is proposing a temporary restriction on 66 pesticides that scientists have blamed for wiping out the threatened California red-legged frog in some parts of the state.
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California, in an act of rebellion against the White House, may be on the verge of spending $300 million a year in each of the next 10 years on stem cell research.
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A bill that would require most dogs and cats in California to be spayed or neutered has brought howls of protest from breeders and threats from the American Kennel Club to pull the nation's second-largest dog show from the state.
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A bill to reduce the number of unwanted dogs and cats by requiring the spaying or neutering of pets has won approval in the state Assembly &#151; with a little help from retiring "The Price is Right" host Bob Barker.
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By Shelli Derobertis, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif.  Dec.
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Wildlife managers are looking to contraception as a way to control nuisance animals.
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A California lawmaker said on Wednesday he would introduce a bill this week to ban sales of cloned pets, a move that could end a California company's plans to replicate beloved domestic animals.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep.
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California plans to scuttle a confidential rehab program that allows physicians to keep practicing while undergoing treatment for alcoholism or drug addiction. Doctors are furious and other states are watching to see what happens.
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By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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Pet hamsters are a potential source of serious infection, U.S. health officials warned on Thursday.
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As a city moves to curb its canine population, typically timid middle-class citizens find themselves fighting the power
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The Humane Society said on Wednesday  a California slaughterhouse was using a range of torture  including waterboarding to prod unfit animals into the  slaughterhouse so they could be processed into food that may  have ultimately ended up in school lunch programs.
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Calif. judge says that the San Francisco Zoo may look for incriminating photographs on cell phones owned by two men who were mauled by a tiger last month.
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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California's attorney general is going after one of the mainstays of life in a way that is so confused, so terrifying an abuse of state power, that it begs for redress.