3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (717+ words) Ian Bell was 15 the first time he went looking for birds in Central Park alone in 2021, waking most mornings before school to walk the park with a pair of binoculars, oftentimes the only teenager doing so. “I remember starting birding…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (406+ words) A piglet that captured Los Angelenos’ hearts and minds after its attempts to elude multiple pursuers in West Hollywood last weekend went viral has been adopted by a foundation headed by Grammy-award-winning songwriter Diane Warren. Named Wilbur by the hive…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1807+ words) They once had run free through the desert mountains of the West, a multicolored band of 68 wild mustangs that had never been saddled or corralled. Then the federal government rounded them up with helicopters, as it has with tens of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (390+ words) Wild horses couldn’t keep President Donald Trump away from the chance of making a kill, according to a new report. Under his administration, thousands of wild horses have been rounded up with helicopters, packed into metal trailers, trucked hundreds of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (455+ words) Roughly 1,500 mink escaped an Oregon farm after a hole was cut in a fence — with an extremist animal rights group linking themselves to the plot to free the creatures, according to authorities and reports. The scores of mink were intentionally…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (297+ words) There’s a fluffy Yorkie in the produce section, and its owner cannot understand why anyone has a problem with this. Pet humanization has been building to this for years. Sixty-nine percent of millennials and Gen Z now describe their pets…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (664+ words) SACRAMENTO — Proposed legislation to protect animals from “Frankenstein”-like medical experimentation died in the state Senate on Thursday, and supporters blame election year politics for its demise. Assembly Bill 1382by Assemblymember Leticia Castillo (R-Home Gardens) would have banned the sale of…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (923+ words) Ginger and white cat Fruitcake slept on top of my sleeping bag, with my legs tucked inside. Kitten Seer hopped onto my chest, stretching her little black fluffy limbs while I scratched her chin. Large, white, long-haired cat the Big…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1125+ words) When a female sea turtle hatches, she’s maybe two inches long, and her first act in life is a wild sprint to the water. She doesn’t look back or hesitate. She runs. She’ll spend the next few decades in open…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (616+ words) After 16 years of serving the animals of the city and county of LA, I can say without hesitation that what is happening to animals in our city is heartbreaking, gut-wrenching — and entirely preventable. LA is one of the largest cities…...