Rats are intelligent and social animals that can make wonderful pets. They are also easily tamed, making rats especially great for someone w...

Cats are good at so many thing — napping, chasing laser pointer dots around the room, napping, eating, and napping, just to name a few — but...

A rat named Magawa has been given an animal bravery award for sniffing out dozens of landmines in Cambodia. Magawa received a gold medal fro...

Recently, wildlife photography aficionado Simon Dell stumbled upon the family of a cute mouse running around his garden. Instead of reachi...

P oisoning by pesticides and rodenticides is one of the most common household dangers to your pet. In this case, zinc phosphide poisoning ...

A local Indian bank got a series of complaints about one of its ATMs. The cause of its sudden malfunction is quite unsettling. Just thin...

The domestic rat is a descendant of the wild brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) and has been bred as a pet for about a hundred years. Pet rat...

Cats are good at so many thing — napping, chasing laser pointer dots around the room, napping, eating, and napping, just to name a few — b...

Ontario, California - Dogs aren't the only animals that vie for best in show. Hundreds of breeds of pigeons compete in their own versi...

MOROGORO, Tanzania — The grass is still damp with dew as the sun begins to glint over the Uluguru Mountains. It’s only 7 a.m. in Morogoro,...

Coppabella, Australia - An Australian man summoned to his neighbor's kitchen to "see something cool" captured footage of a m...

Multitudes of feral cats roam New York City's concrete jungle, and some now have a practical purpose: They're helping curb the cit...

A Swedish family actually lived what is probably many people’s worst nightmare after they discovered that a 15-inch monster rat had chewe...

Gray Court, South Carolina - A 2-year-old boy remains in the hospital in critical condition after he was found unconscious in a filthy ho...

It started when someone left a 120-pound cow head in a park. At first, investigators in Sacramento wondered if that someone was a hun...

Bainoa, Cuba (AP) — Some people keep guinea pigs or hamsters as pets. But in Cuba, where a larger, more exotic rodent runs wild, Ana Ped...

It's the time of the year to give thanks, and out today is something we're extremely grateful for: another tiny hamster eating tin...

The Broadway cast was less than thrilled when it found out who one of their fellow performers would be. It made them squeamish — not becau...

Everyone who's ever used a New York City subway knows that they're teeming with rats, and that said rats are, almost by definition...