Browsing: pets

In 2010, Katie Teixeira adopted a kitten found all alone in an abandoned house. The kitten – so tiny she fit in the palm of Teixeira’s…

Grief over the death of a pet could be as chronic as that for a human family member, research has shown, confirming what many people already…

November 27, 20253 min readThe Incredible, Unlikely Story of How Cats Became Our PetsTwo new studies dig into the long, curving path that cats took toward…

A morning mist hung over the palm trees as birds chattered and cars roared by on the streets of Pasadena. It was a scene that evoked…

Aly Raisman is a champion. And a survivor. And she knows it takes a village to help heal. The Olympic gold medalist gymnast was used to…

Pets on flights can be classified as baggage, the European court of justice has ruled, meaning airlines are not required to pay higher compensation if the…

Last week, I came across a flurry of ads on the house-share site SpareRoom sounding less like they were for cosy, inviting living arrangements than for…

Where humans lead, their dogs tend to follow – now it seems that might even apply to weight-loss wonder drugs.Medications such as Wegovy have become ubiquitous…

After a Danish zoo posted a reminder of its long-running programme allowing people to donate their healthy, small pets to be “gently euthanised” and fed to…

If your cat’s sulking, your dog’s whining or your rabbit’s doing that strange thing with its paws again, you will recognise that familiar pang of guilt…