For Small Animals, a Fleck Is a Lot
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Lead poisoning in pets is decreasing as lead paint grows more rare. But if your pet shows symptoms of lead poisoning, you should be tested as well.
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When a company with a small float comes unhinged from reality, look out.
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By Anna King, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep. 23--NACHES -- It's no easy job to keep tiny fish out of irrigation ditches and on their migratory path to the ocean.   Especially when small salmon really like slower moving waterways that offer plentiful bugs and hiding places.
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CHICAGO - "Animal Grossology," the new exhibition at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, could easily have been a lot grosser. Sure, there's plastic excrement in the exhibit room, skunk scent for spritzing, and robot animals that use cutesy terms like "barf" and "dookie" while talking about hairballs and digestive tracts...
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Sometimes, a regulatory bark is worse than its bite.
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The dodder seedling doesnÂt rely on dumb luck to find a host. It has a nose for it.
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Veterinarians who care for the animals that provide the United States with food are in increasingly short supply.
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Dog owners have long maintained that their pooches have a lot more going on between their furry ears than scientists acknowledge. Now, new research is adding to the growing evidence that man's best friend thinks a lot more than many humans have believed.
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By Katherine Ullmer Staff Writer  CENTERVILLE -- Cadie, a small black poodle, ferociously shook a small stuffed toy chicken in her mouth -- an ironic twist to her master's love of wildlife.
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About half of all Bernese mountain dogs are prone to an unusual blood cancer called malignant histiocytosis. Boxers are four times more likely to get lymphomas than dogs in general, while Pomeranians are 10 times less likely. Cocker spaniels are more likely to get B cell lymphomas, and huskies are more susceptible to T cell lymphomas.
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Being the biggest dog may pay off at feeding time, but species that grow too large may be more vulnerable to extinction, new research suggests.
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Watching our state's abundant wildlife, like white-tailed deer and flocks of turkey, is one of the joys of Maine life.  It's a thrill to see such marvelous creatures, especially in the backyard.  But Mainers who spread food for these wild animals unwittingly jeopardize their health.
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Some call them "pork." Others say "pet projects" or "earmarks."
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By Dan Sorenson, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 15--There's something croaking at the International Wildlife Museum.
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A wave of poaching has alarmed state and federal wildlife officials in several Western states.
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By Matt Weiser and Jim Downing, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 3--The fate of a water supply serving two in three Californians has come down to tides, temperature and the mysterious movements of a tiny fish.
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Dogs have always taken an inordinate interest in urine. But now UK researchers have put that penchant to good use, and shown that the animals can detect signs of bladder cancer in human pee.