Pets

The Maryland Attorney General's Office has settled with Maryland Puppies Online over alleged violations of the 2020 No More Puppy Mills Act.

After Sarah Gossard’s dog, Nala, was killed by a police officer in 2014, she has channeled her grief into organizing fundraisers for animal organizations such as Charm City Companions.

The Maryland law will ban perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in paper products for food packaging and in rugs and carpets, as well as in firefighting foams, starting in 2024.

Maryland is set to ban cat declawing, something animal welfare advocates consider barbaric. Others say declawing is already rare and a ban would infringe on the judgment of veterinarians.

The Maryland Zoo is organizing a study of big cats to see how well a COVID-19 vaccine may protect them and help stem the pandemic.

Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter will not be accepting any new cats to its shelter for at least two weeks because of an infectious virus outbreak.

The goal is to accept only sick, malnourished, injured, neglected or dangerous animals, as well as those whose owners are facing an emergency or have exhausted all other options.

Globally, more than a million plants and animals face extinction due to habitat loss, climate change and other factors related to human activity, and this alarming loss of biodiversity is only accelerating.

Ali Smith, who moved from England to Carroll County, is working full time as an award-winning dog trainer who specializes in puppies.

An SMU sociologist and research assistant professor argues that pets have become part of the American family.

Scientists are now scrambling to figure out what is killing these 40-foot-long marine mammals. The “what” is anything but obvious.

Heat exhaustion is a common issue for dogs in the warmer months. The American Kennel Club offers the following tips for dog owners to help their canine companions stay cool in the summer heat:

After nearly a decade of bureaucratic slowdowns, advocacy efforts and stalled legislation, veterans may be getting increased access to one of the more effective treatments for combat-related mental health conditions: a service dog.

If you see a gecko scampering up the side of a house in Florida or somewhere in Central or South America closer to the Equator, there is good chance it is an African house gecko, Hemidactylus mabouia.

The heat wave, which is responsible for at least 125 people’s deaths in Washington state, sent Seattle temperatures above 100 for three days, buckling roads and overwhelming emergency rooms. Climate scientists say the event would have been virtually impossible if not for climate change.

A growing number of snakes are taking on horrific facial deformities, due to a skin disease wildlife experts don’t fully understand.

In the spring of 2020, as the novel coronavirus infiltrated the Twin Cities, Hinh Ly could not stop thinking about cats and dogs.

Using $1.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, researchers at University of California, Davis, are looking into whether venom from the widely feared tarantula spider could help relieve chronic pain.

A veterinary hospital will open in Southeast Baltimore’s Brewers Hill project, the developer said Wednesday.

In the United States, raising koi is still a niche pastime, but its adherents spend countless hours and thousands of dollars buying and caring for what many of them consider living artwork. They find community in each other, swapping techniques to thwart predators, sharing photos of their backyard ponds and offering advice on filtration systems.