Dog Found 1,600 Miles Away From Home
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FLOWER MOUND, Texas - Snowbirds from the frigid North are a common sight in Texas, but Carla is a different breed altogether. A trucker found the 11-year-old mixed breed dog in Amarillo a week ago and brought her to a Denton veterinary hospital - 1,600 miles away from her Castle Rock, Wash. home.
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Don't talk to "Snowy" the terrier about the hassle of airport security. The brown-and-white hound spent 11 days in a sensitive outdoor area of Madrid airport, one of Europe's busiest air hubs, scurrying about with a dog's eye view of landing planes and dodging security people until he was finally caught Sunday. Not by authorities, but, well, by dogcatchers.
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By By John Branton, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun. 25--Betty Mitchell was doing chores outside her home late Tuesday morning when she heard her miniature schnauzer, Maddie, let out a yelp.   She went running to her front yard.
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A leatherback turtle has chalked up a new migration record after covering more than 12,000 miles
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A jack rabbit found throughout much of the West has disappeared from the Yellowstone area, although the reason why remains a mystery, a new study concludes.
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SPOKANE, Wash. - In the three years since Mark Anderson answered a newspaper advertisement for a free puppy that needed a good home, the female black Labrador has chewed through a couch, a window sill, two cell phones and two carpets.
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KOKOMO, Ind. - A pregnant tortoise missing for about a week was returned home unharmed in an Army duffel bag...
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Surprised U.S. Border Patrol agents found a four-foot long alligator stuffed into a suitcase during a routine traffic stop in southwest Arizona last week.
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A telephone call at midnight normally would have awoken Bill Whiting, but he hadn't been sleeping much since his dog disappeared. He picked up the phone and couldn't believe what he heard.
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By Patrick O'Driscoll  Prairie dogs fight for home on the range as suburbs spread. Rodent relocators try to strike a humane    balance of city and wildlife.    BOULDER, Colo.
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A British Columbian lynx released in Colorado two years ago was last tracked north of Missoula, Mont., more than 800 miles from where he was released in March 2003 near Creede.
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A seal pup that was found by the side of a country road miles from the coast or the nearest river has been successfully released back into the Irish Sea, wildlife officials said Monday.
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Scientists have discovered the remains of a rodent the size of a small car which used to forage the South American continent. The 1-ton creature is believed to have been about 3 meters in length and 1.5 meters tall.
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LOS ANGELES - It's been a rough month for hotel heiress Paris Hilton. First, her Hollywood Hills home was burglarized and now her pet Chihuahua, Tinkerbell, has disappeared...
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A stork called Max has achieved a world record after spending more than seven years under satellite surveillance, the longest ever duration for an animal, scientists in Switzerland said.
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There once was a dog that was chained to a leash in its owner&#39;s front yard. A neighbor&#39;s child wandered onto the property - trespasses would be the technical word for it -â and started poking the dog in the ears, the eyes, the mouth.
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By AP Wire Service  MEMPHIS, Tenn.  -- A manatee that traveled 720 miles up the Mississippi River and eluded his would-be rescuers was found dead Monday on the banks of a lake, police said.    Police spokesman Sgt.