It's quite possible that there have never been so many cute domestic pets available for Americans to adopt as there are now. The reasons are both novel and sad.

The recent seizure by Dutch authorities of three exotic so called Ashera cats that a U.S.-based "designer" pet company LifeStyle Pets says it created has sparked allegations by some cat breeders that the felines aren't what they are advertised to be.

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.

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.

Disapproving Bunnies
Dramatic Chipmunks
Dancing Cockatoos
Piano Playing Cats

It has been in the news for years about how secondhand smoke is a health threat to nonsmokers. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that secondhand smoke is attributed with killing thousands of adult nonsmokers annually.

A two-week-old baby has died after being attacked by a family dog in the Perth suburb of Willetton.

New SeeMyPetCam.com and PetCam Allow Owners to Video and Watch. Their Pets from PCs, Mobile Phones.

The ugliness of Elwood has won him some acclaim and has made Elwood the ugliest dog of the world.

Does your cat look like Adolf Hitler? Do you wake up in a cold sweat every night wondering if he's going to up and invade Poland?

Lifestyle pets are advertising the $22,000 Ashera breed of cat. It's the same as a Savannah cat, but more expensive. The originator claims to use gene mapping and artificial insemination, but hasn't had his work published in peer-reviewed journals.

Researchers study dog DNA by isolating a single gene common to all small dogs which is expected to give clues to diverse sizes of dog breeds.