2+ week, 20+ hour ago  (1058+ words) Yet Breslauer's path to becoming the internet's best-known catio builder was anything but predictable. "I came late to cats," Breslauer told LA Times Studios Pets. "I didn't adopt my first until grad school." At the time, his life looked very…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (1078+ words) The French Bulldog breed'often called Frenchies'is a compact companion dog with big personalities and one defining reality that majory affects ownership: it's a brachycephalic breed and flat faced breed. French Bulldogs are affectionate, people-oriented dogs that tend to do best…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1522+ words) The landscape of companion animal care is shifting from reactive treatments to proactive observation. Connected devices are reshaping pet health monitoring by providing continuous, objective data on daily animal behavior. From smart collars tracking the activity of a roaming dog…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (686+ words) Golden retrievers appear particularly susceptible. The disease predominantly affects middle aged and older dogs. Researchers also suspect that environmental triggers and certain viruses might contribute to cellular mutations. These combined factors ultimately lead to the proliferation of cancerous cells. Veterinary…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (563+ words) State officials have euthanized a bear who swiped a woman in Monrovia over the weekend despite objections from city officials who asked that the female bear and her two cubs be relocated to the Angeles National Forest. The bear charged…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (406+ words) PORTLAND, Maine'Researchers on Cape Cod, Mass., recently discovered the oldest known recordings of whale sound and believe it could help understand how the animals communicate. The recording is the song of a humpback whale, a species of large whale known…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (276+ words) An adult black bear swiped a woman with its claw on Saturday in Monrovia in what police described as an unusual incident. A woman walking her dog on the 700 block of Oakglade Drive was approached by the bear at 9:20 a.m. It…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (759+ words) A 25-year-old man is dead after a suspected rattlesnake bite last month in Irvine, prompting warnings from animal control officials in Orange County as rattlesnake activity ramps up across trails and open spaces. The Orange County Fire Authority responded around…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (923+ words) Erin Wagner lives in the Chicago suburbs but visits two bald eagles in Southern California's Big Bear Valley nearly every day. At work, the 41-year-old often plays a livestream featuring Jackie and Shadow on one of her monitors " a respite…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (121+ words) Letters to the Editor: Thanks to New Zealand for being proactive in saving the kakapo'Los Angeles Times To the editor: Congratulations to New Zealand for preserving such a blessing to the world with its kakapo conservation efforts (A bumper berry…...