Every year more than 150,000 dogs and cats are killed in Alabama animal shelters. The majority are healthy and would become loving companions if they were adopted. In most cases, the cost of care and feeding, euthanizing and disposal is borne by the taxpayer.

It would be cheaper for the public and more humane for the animals if this population was reduced. The best way to bring the abandoned pet “surplus” under control is through spaying and neutering.

The catch is spaying and neutering can be expensive. To help bring down the cost, nonprofit organizations created spay/neuter clinics where these services can be offered by trained veterinarians at a lower price...

Cubao dolphin show execs going to trial for cruelty to animals

By Julie M. Aurelio
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Typically, bigger animals tend to run faster than smaller animals, because they have longer legs, said Christofer J. Clemente of Harvard University, who led the research. But this only works up to a point. The fastest land animal is neither the biggest nor the smallest, but something in between. Think about the size of an elephant, a mouse and a cheetah.

Clemente and his team studied monitor lizards to show that that the same principle applies within species as well as across species, and to identify why this is the case. Because adult monitor lizards vary substantially in size, they are an ideal species for testing how size affects speed. The researchers timed and photographed monitors...

May 1, 2012

Updated May 1, 2012 at 10:34 AM CDT

Duluth, MN (Northlands NewsCenter)
When I was a child we used to take in all the baby birds that fell from the rafters in the barn and my mom would try to help us and wed desperately try to feed them and it was hard because often they would die. We didnt know the right way to care for them.

Growing up on a farm, Duluthian Caroline Sneve Routley learned to care about animals.
Through Wildwoods Rehabilitation, shes since learned to care for them.
Wildwoods lives up to its name by rehabilitating abandoned baby and injured adult animals.
The group is caring for a wide variety of animals at the moment.