Our unemployment rate may be dipping, but many U.S. families still struggle to make ends meet. "Doing more with less" requires tough decisions about household expenses, and many pet owners face the possibility of losing their pets.
Iggy is just one of many cats on YouTube caught playing with Apple's new iPad.
Cat-proofing your home can be a challenge, especially when frisky felines get access to every nook and cranny of the house.
Whether you adopt a puppy or an older dog, a little training goes a long way toward preserving a happy, healthy relationship. I asked professional dog trainers to share the most prevalent behavior issues, along with tools to address the problem. Here are the top five issues and tips to promote good behavior for the rest of the year.
An ex-National Zoo employee has been sentenced in an attempted feral cat poisoning.
A former researcher at the National Zoo received a 180-day suspended sentence Wednesday for trying to poison feral cats.
He made it through the storm, but now The View star's adopted feline must contend with his four-legged housemate
The talk show host brings home a Russian blue named Verrazano, whose survival story made headlines in July
The divorced Dexter star is doing fine, thanks to his feline friends
The days of stinky litter boxes could be coming to an end.
During their daily walks in St. Louis, Kelly Jackson and her pint-sized Shih tzu, Meeko, used to run into plenty of pet lovers. But as soon as the conversation turned to Meeko's age, it was Jackson who got feisty.
From how to score a cocktail to where to scatter grandma's ashes, this is your ticket to the real Magic Kingdom.
It's been three years, but Ebony Stith still cringes when her daughter Erin asks about their beloved shih tzu. Every time the question arises, Stith patiently explains that Cookie has moved on to a better place -- far, far away. A place called Flint, Michigan.
"I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay," the former president's daughter tells PEOPLE
The former beauty queen shares a pic of her new, and very pink, feline
Why is that cats like to cuddle -- but only on their terms? Cats aren't my expertise, but I do know the warning signs of a brewing catastrophe.
Everyone has a weakness. For me, it's salted caramel ice cream. For my dog, Lulu, it's expensive shoes. For most cats, it's catnip.
If the walls could talk, they would tell you stories.
Plenty of people indulge their pets because it makes them happy and keeps the peace. But did you know that overweight cats and dogs can develop diabetes, just like humans do?
After the BP oil spill left tar balls on the beach and rental properties sitting empty, Gulf Shores, Alabama, is cleaned up and ready for company.
While dogs offer wet kisses to just about anyone within licking distance, the feline persuasion prefers that you earn their purrs and cuddles. Since the American Pet Products Association (APPA) estimates that about 38 million U.S. households have cats, plenty of people are working overtime to please their feline houseguests. Are you ready to join the ranks? Here are a few tips for how to adopt a cat:
Every year around this time, I think about hospital emergency rooms nationwide overflowing with holiday-related injuries. Unfortunately, veterinarians also see their share of holiday mishaps.
The Kroger Co. is recalling select pet food packages from stores in 19 states fearing some of these products may contain aflatoxin, a toxic chemical byproduct that could be harmful to animals.
Glee 'Special Education' Episode - Kurt and Dalton Warblers
"R.I.P. my little Valentine," Von D Tweets after the death of her pet
Stretching more than four feet, the feline takes Guinness World Record
President Obama is going from a chief of staff dubbed "Rahmbo" who once sent a dead fish to a political opponent to the exact opposite: a shy, self-effacing guy known for being a gentle boss and a cat lover.
The Glee star saved six stray kittens she found on the Paramount Studios lot and gave them homes
It is the strange "tail" of Graeme Swann, his cat and a brush with the law that has made the England cricket team "paws" for thought before trash talking each other on Twitter.
Had your fix of LOLCats today? If you did, you're one of 16 million unique visitors hitting I Can Has Cheezburger, which features cat photos with cutesy baby-talk captions, and its affiliated sites every month.
The actress says she and her fuzzy fella have a "really weird codependent" relationship
There's no need to page Doctor Doolittle for this case. Here are the amazing, true stories of four animals that could speak for themselves.
There's an unwritten rule in travel journalism that any story about pets on planes must contain at least one Chihuahua anecdote. I know, because I've written many of them. So let's get right to Charlotte Coan and her travel companion, Cricket.
A Modern Manners columnist answers a reader question.
The reality star explains a picture of herself holding a kitten by the scruff of the neck
CNN's Emily Chang reports on legislation in China that would ban eating dog and cat meat. (Warning: Disturbing content)
Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone approaches.
An Italian chef lands in hot water after serving up a recipe for cat casserole. CNN's Jim Clancy reports.
Italy's state-owned television broadcaster has dropped a popular chef for sharing a recipe with viewers to cook cat.
Jesse was too attention-starved. Brendan was too spacey. Darrick was too needy, not to mention a big-time conservative.
Do you rejoice at the sound of barking but cower at a meow? Or do you look at a cat and feel an instant sibling-style connection?
The Office star tells PEOPLE her wedding to Lee Kirk will include "really good food"
Keep your furry friend happy and healthy without breaking the bank.
She hopes the snack and a cute pet card will bring a stuffy-nosed backup singer "back to perfect health"
If you could snap your fingers and make your allergies disappear, you'd probably do it in a second. But what if your pet is the cause of your watery eyes, sneezing, and runny nose?
The singer pulls out of a gig in favor of rest, but will she be up for a Friday concert?
A teenager accused of killing and mutilating 19 pet cats in Miami, Florida, has been released on bond and is under house arrest, authorities said Wednesday.
Tyler Weinman, suspected of killing and mutilating 19 cats in Florida, appears in court.
He was black and white, the perfect gift for the 6-year-old daughter of Donna and Ronald Gleason. His name was Tommy.
Under the California sun in a place known as Muscle Beach, where bronzed bodybuilders pump their cannon-size biceps, an energetic brunette works her arms -- and the weight purrs its approval.
"Since swine flu is super trendy I wanted to make sure I was in style," she blogs
Former First Feline succumbs to illness at advanced age of 20
While few small cap stocks are household names, those in Intrepid Small Cap Fund's portfolio are bit more esoteric than most.
Qin Xiaona used to visit the suburban Xiaotangshan Sanatorium in the summer to escape the scorching temperature in the city. Now she comes here to turn up the heat on a subject close to her heart.
Thanks to dedicated people like Bob and Katherine Rude, many homeless animals in Maryland will have a warm home this winter.
Animal house
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Photojournalist Bethany Swain brings us to the Rude Ranch, an animal shelter run by a couple who gave up day jobs to help animals.
It started with sinus congestion for Shawna Coronado. Then the splitting migraines came. Coronado soon discovered the furry causes: Harrington and Kalamazoo.
Murphy bounds up the stairs, down the stairs, over the hurdles, through the tunnel and stops. He cautiously sidesteps the large white ring in front of him and sits down.
The Office star dotes on her frail 16-year-old feline Andy and is hosting a kitten rescue event
The cat's extra ears may give him a devilish look, but he's "very affectionate" says his owner
Pet owners know that their furry friends can add a little something extra to the spring cleaning chores. CNN spoke with "the Queen of Clean," Linda Cobb, a New York Times best-selling author and television personality. Cobb, who owns three cats, knows a thing or two about getting the best of pet messes.
When Susie Toth's boyfriend told her a few months after she moved in that they "needed to talk," she was crestfallen.
If you take a multivitamin every morning and perhaps a supplement or two because you care about your health, does it make sense to do the same with your dog or cat? Stephanie Pendleton of Emerald Isle, North Carolina, would say yes.
Goodbye Goldendoodle. Designer dogs are so last season. Now animal lovers are clamoring for cat crossbreeds -- and they are sparing no expense on the latest "it" pet.
Congress sent President Bush legislation Thursday giving the Food and Drug Administration new powers to ensure the safety of prescription drugs.
Wilbur-Ellis, an animal feed provider, announced the recall Thursday of rice protein it shipped to a number of pet food companies because it may contain melamine, an agent toxic to animals.
The Chinese company accused by a U.S. government agency of supplying hazardous materials found in recalled pet food shot back Tuesday, calling claims by U.S. officials "rumors" and reporting that samples of the substance had been sent to labs for testing.
Nestle Purina PetCare Company is voluntarily recalling all sizes and varieties of its ALPO Prime Cuts in Gravy wet dog food, adding those products to a growing list of pet food tainted with wheat gluten containing the toxic agent melamine, Purina said.
The wet pet food recall that has killed at least 14 animals and sickened hundreds extended into the dry pet food market Friday.
A chemical used in rat poison was found in recalled pet food that has killed several animals and sickened hundreds of others, the food laboratory of New York state and the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University said in a news conference Friday.
More than 95 pet owners have joined a class-action lawsuit against Menu Foods Inc., saying it produced and distributed pet food that might be dangerous, and possibly deadly, to animals.
A Wisconsin pet owner filed a class action law suit Tuesday against Menu Foods Inc., saying it produced and distributed pet food that might be dangerous, and possibly deadly, to animals.
Here are some of the stocks actively trading on Monday:
A pet food producer announced Monday that it has beefed up its call center and Web site after a massive recall of its "cuts and gravy" style dog and cat food found in 90 private-label store brands linked to pet deaths and illness.
A California biotechnology company has started taking orders for a hypoallergenic cat for pet lovers prone to allergies.
New York has always been a great food town, with cuisines from all over the world represented in its thousands of eating-places.
Archeologists say they have evidence that a bond between cats and humans was forged thousands of years before previously thought.
Money Magazine: The Inhuman Touchupdated: Mon Dec 01 2003 00:01:00
Beset by scandal, the New York Stock Exchange is under pressure to alter or abandon its "use of humans to trade stocks on the floor of the exchange," as the Wall Street Journal put it. The NYSE cou...
Fancy lunches, luxe sweaters, regular day spa visits: Dogs and cats have it pretty good these days. "We are seeing more people pamper their pets the way they would pamper themselves," says Lee Avar...
Let us begin by picturing something you like. It could be kittens. Or jazz trumpeters. Or tasty chocolate fudge. You have that picture in your mind? Okay. Now imagine that times, say, a thousand. A...
TO STEAL, and mangle, a phrase from Churchill, Mars Inc. is an enigma inside a mystery tied up in a bright candy wrapper. We are all familiar with its branded products -- Snickers, M&M's, Milky Way...
Ronald Cameron, 50, a periodontist in Upper Darby, Pa., started serious planning for retirement two decades ago after attending a one-day financial seminar for doctors and dentists. "The speaker sa...
Money Magazine: TOP STOCK updated: Tue Sep 01 1992 00:01:00
First Brands (recent price: $26.25). This diversified maker of everything from antifreeze to cat litter has suffered a 25% price drop since October. But a turnaround could make the stock rebound to...
Pet food is big business; otherwise gorillas such as Ralston Purina, Quaker Oats, Colgate-Palmolive, Nestle (Friskies brand), Grand Metropolitan (Alpo), and Mars (Pedigree) wouldn't be chasing cats...
Fortune: KITTY LITTER 101updated: Mon Jul 30 1990 00:01:00
Edward Lowe, 69, the man who gave the world Kitty Litter, has started a boot camp for entrepreneurs at his Michigan farm. The campus ain't much: The dorms are in two boxcars that Lowe bought for $4...
Fearful of an economic downturn and apprehensive about the effect a new President will have on a jittery stock market, most individual investors have come to regard aggressive investing as a financ...
BUSINESSES are born under most unlikely circumstances. Forty years ago on a cold January day in Cassopolis, Michigan, Kay Draper's sandpile froze solid. As a result, she had to fill the cat's box w...
WHEN Anthony J.F. ''Tony'' O'Reilly, the chief executive of H.J. Heinz Co., called the company's 100 top managers to Pittsburgh in February for what was billed as the Low-Cost Operator Conference, ...
WHEN Anthony J.F. ''Tony'' O'Reilly, the chief executive of H.J. Heinz Co., called the company's 100 top managers to Pittsburgh in February for what was billed as the Low-Cost Operator Conference, ...
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