Would you expect your pet to save you if your house was on fire, or alert you if your blood sugar was low? Here, we give thanks to the rats, dogs, donkeys and more that, in some cases, put their own ...

Nita Hemeter remembers the barking and meowing, and being able to look up from the middle of a New Orleans darkened by power outages to see "every star in the sky." It was early September 2005, a ...

Animals are often seen as wild or tough, but many of them also have a soft and kind side. Some animals care for their families, some help humans, and some even protect other animals. Their gentle ...