A puppy recently born in New Orleans, Louisiana is really standing out among his siblings, all because of the fact that this is a green puppy. By this we mean the color of this puppy is really green.

If you think about it, your pet dog and cat aren't very clean. They roll around in the grass and the carpet, lick food off the floor, trample through the dirt with nothing but their paws to protect them. Still, I have to admit I am intrigued by the results of a new study released this morning that tested the blood and urine of pet dogs and cats for an array of toxic chemicals found in common household items.

The aging King County Animal Shelter is in focus of attention of County officials. A report last month revealed filthy shelter conditions, under-fed animals, and a higher than usual euthanasia rate.

About 800 small dogs, including Chihuahuas, terriers and Pomeranians, were seized from a triple-wide mobile home whose occupants were overwhelmed trying to care for the animals, authorities said on Wednesday.

Using pacemakers to electrically retune a heart damaged by long bouts of a wobbling heartbeat, where one heart muscle wall is beating sooner than the other, leads to fast improvements in the tissue levels of more than a dozen proteins key to the organ’s health, scientists at Johns Hopkins report in experiments in dogs.

Petanim has come up with a very interesting concept which allows pet owners to dress up their pets and let Petanim's visitors to vote for the best dressed pet.

This year, four breeds of dogs are competing for the first time in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, United States.

The Westminster Kennel Club 132nd Annual Dog Show opens today at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Bulldog Makes the List of Top 10 Dogs For First Time in Nearly 75 Years; Labrador Retriever Continues to Fetch Top Spot. American Kennel Club Appeared on NBC Today Show to Announce 2007 Registration Statistics for American Top 10 Dogs.

Computer programs may be the most accurate tool for studying acoustic communications amongst animals, according to Csaba Molnár from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary and his research team.

Like us, our canine friends are able to form abstract concepts. Friederike Range and colleagues from the University of Vienna in Austria have shown for the first time that dogs can classify complex color photographs and place them into categories in the same way that humans do.

A 33-year-old man Selva Kumar in Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu has married a dog in a bid to ward off the "curse" of a canine couple he had killed 15 years ago.