KELSO, Wash. (AP) – The trial of a Longview couple accused of mistreating five adopted children began with a 14-year-old boy testifying that the pair hardly fed him so he resorted to eating dog food. The boy weighed only 50 pounds – half the normal weight for his age – when he and four adopted [...]

<!– end javascript to email the article –>  Marketwire ROCKVILLE, MD — (Marketwire) — 07/18/12 – Retail sales of non-food pet supplies totaled $11.1 billion in 2011, up 2% over 2010, according to a just-released Packaged Facts report on Pet Supplies and Pet Care Products in the U.S. From a high of 5% in [...]

TULSA, Oklahoma – Oklahoma’s only specially-trained bed bug-searching service dog, Miss Liberty Belle, began checking all floors of Tulsa Public Library’s downtown branch Wednesday. The dog was called in after the Tulsa Central Library was closed Tuesday after bed bugs were found on the third floor. On Tuesday a Tulsa-based licensed exterminator treated the library to [...]

When a friend brought her hyacinth macaw home, it was the culmination of a year of waiting to see if the egg was fertile, waiting to see if it would hatch successfully, and then visiting the young bird at the breeder’s home for months until he was fully weaned. Her friends and bird club buddies got [...]

A special bed bug sniffing dog will search Tulsa’s Central Library Wednesday morning, for any traces of the pests. Once everything is clear doors will re-open.  Tuesday, a library customer walked away with an itch. The Central Library locked its doors early after spotting bed bugs. Every year, some 400 thousand people come through the Central [...]

WILTON, Conn. – A financial gift from a Wilton pet food maker will allow the town’s police department to get its first police dog. The Wilton Board of Selectmen accepted a $50,000 gift from Blue Buffalo Co. that will be used to purchase, train and continue a K-9 program. Bill Bishop, founder and CEO of [...]

GAYLORD — Anyone with a pet knows that our animals are more than just four paws and a mouth to feed; they are part of the family. We care for them like children, include them in family portraits, take them along on vacation, and even buy them Christmas presents. We love them. Wags to Wiskers, [...]

Holy kibbles and bits Batman! Burt Ward, 67, the actor who played the Caped Crusader’s sidekick Robin in the campy 1960s TV series, is a real life hero who has rescued nearly 15,000 dogs and has created his own line of healthy dog food that he claims can double the life span of man’s best [...]

The Lower Nazareth Planning Commission on Monday tabled a decision on the preliminary/final land development plan for a proposed addition to the Phillips Feed Pet Supply distribution center on Hecktown Road. The board will again consider the plan on Aug. 20, pending revised drainage and grading designs, which were not available Monday night. The proposed [...]