These are fascinating, highly social creatures - and for this reason I would think their appropriateness as human pets is certainly questionable.According to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission -"The fact that prairie dogs live in colonies indicates they are highly social animals. The larges...

From the English newspaper the Daily Mail comes this weighty story."Meet record-breaking rabbit Humphrey - a buck so large he has smashed the official mark for the world's biggest bunny.The French lop-eared rabbit is 42in long and tips the scales at a mammoth two stone.That's 3lb heavier than p...

Here's a heartwarming story on this unusual breed....March 28, 2009Cambridge, Canada"Nicola Woerns couldn't turn away.The 29-year-old was heading home from teaching at a Taiwanese school when she saw a man throw a box of puppies out of a moving truck.She stared in shock as each puppy flew helpl...

"A Chinese man was shocked to discover the dog he had raised from a pup was actually a rare Arctic fox. Zhang, of Tunkou, bought what he thought was an all-white Pomeranian dog for £60 a year ago on a business trip. But he found the dog hard to tame, it would often bite him and had several u...

April 8, 2009"A cat in China has adopted two orphaned puppies - and is trying to teach them how to catch mice. The female cat - named Tom - nurses the puppies and washes them with her tongue, reports the Yaxin Network. Owner Ms Shen, who lives in Urumchi, said the puppies' natural moth...