Before I had a guinea pig, I didn’t know anything about caring for an exotic pet — meaning a variety that is not a dog or cat. I quickly learned that these pets need specialized care, both at home and ...

With their unique looks and their wild-but-wonderful characteristics, the best exotic pets can make for the most unusual of companions. Any pet parent will know that a happy pet is a happy parent. So ...

Eleven cheetah cubs were rescued from illegal trade in Somaliland in what a conservationist said was “one of the largest ...

Freyja Watters receives funding from an Adelaide University Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Phill Cassey receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Centre for Invasive Species ...

Dec. 11, 2006 — -- It may seem like a stretch to think of exotic animals as a threat to national security, but that's exactly what a recently released report from the Centers for Disease Control ...

Many exotic pet owners are hobbyists and they don't have experience needed. Oct. 23, 2011— -- The slaughter of over 50 renegade animals let loose from a backyard zoo in Zanesville, Ohio, ...

Haley Fleisch of Myrtle Beach, Florida, kisses her pet raccoon, Oogie Boogie, as she waits for bikers to arrive at at SBB Original in Murrells Inlet in 2011. Raccoons are illegal to own as pets in ...

Under Washington state law, it’s illegal to own animals that pose a risk of rabies infection. This includes bats, skunks, foxes, raccoon and coyotes. This rule is intended to “protect the public from ...

Dead frogs from the Solomon Islands, a remote archipelago in the South Pacific, set the tone for how the United States enforces animal welfare protections. And not for the better, experts say. It was ...

In British Columbia, talks of banning ownership of various exotic and non-domestic cats are in the works, in part due to recent headlines of two escaped servals. An article by CBC News reports that ...