Members at a Kingston golf club are getting in a flap over a birdie that has taken up residence in the club grounds.
When a bedraggled Walter the pigeon arrived at Coombe Wood Golf Club about five weeks ago, Phil Wright, long serving professional at the club, took a shine to him and nursed him […]

Conservation officers in Squamish, B.C., continue to hunt for two more cougars after a rash of attacks, including one in which a mother fought off an attack on her daughter, 3, who couldn’t understand why the big kitty didn’t want to “play nice.”
Five conservation officers aided by two dogs and their handlers eventually tracked the […]

What a difference a day makes.
Everlinda Toledo’s dog, d’Artagnan, had been at Lee County Domestic Animal Services just four days when Toledo found him there.
It was one day too many.
Because the 4-year-old Pomeranian hadn’t been claimed in three days, he became the property of Animal Services. And Animal Services had adopted the dog out.
“Someone lost […]

(CNN) — It is the life blood for tens of millions of people — but the mighty Mekong River in southeast Asia is now facing a “devastating” threat from not one, but 11 proposed dams.
A group of NGOs has come together to issue the stark warning, claiming if the plans go ahead for […]

GROVELAND, Fla. - A hearing-impaired Florida woman may have been saved from her burning home by her dog.
The Orlando Sentinel reports Lillian Miller thought her Chihuahua mix just needed to go outside when he started barking around 3 a.m. yesterday.
So she took the dog — named Spaz — out. That’s when she saw flames […]

PORT HURON, Michigan - Squirrel. Thief. Patriot.
A brazen squirrel has been grabbing small American flags placed in a Port Huron, Mich., cemetery and carrying them up to its nest, which now looks as if it’s bedecked in bunting.
Every Memorial Day, volunteers place the flags next to the graves of nearly 1,000 veterans buried at Mount […]

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … cat?
A kitty in Chongqing, China, is getting some extra-special attention these days: The furry feline has developed wings! Though born looking completely normal, once the cat hit the age of 1, he began growing wing-shaped appendages on either side of his spine, the U.K.’s […]

BANGKOK - A healthy panda cub was born Wednesday at a zoo in northern Thailand.
Staff artificially inseminated Lin Hui, a 7-year-old female, on Feb. 18, but had seen no signs she was pregnant, Chiang Mai Zoo’s director Thananpat Pongamorn said.
“She’s been anxious since yesterday. She did not want to get close to […]

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan - A man’s decision not to end his terminally ill bulldog’s life ended up saving his own.
Scott Seymour said his dog, Brittney, awakened him with her barking early Saturday in time for both of them to escape from his burning house in Grand Rapids.
The fire came two weeks after a veterinarian discovered […]

(CNN) — Australia’s iconic Tasmanian devil — widely known as trouble in Looney Tunes cartoons — has been put on the country’s endangered list, environmental officials announced Friday.
“My decision to uplist the Tasmanian devil is based on advice from the Threatened Species Scientific Committee, which lists the devil facial tumor disease as the major […]