A Fort Worth Veterinarian Has Been Accused Of Keeping A Dog He Was Supposed To Have Euthanized Alive For Blood Transfusions
If it's true, it's a horror story.
Stories and updates on some of the state’s many animals
If it's true, it's a horror story.
No one knows what the donkey was doing at the mall, but it seemed to be having a good time.
This isn't actually funny.
The massive fire that took down a Montrose apartment building didn't claim this cat.
The two-month old baby ocelot is big news for a very small population.
The Lubbock pre-teens spend six months a year showing their prize goats at livestock competitions throughout the state.
Disabled veterans are having a rough time bringing their service dogs into businesses, despite laws allowing them to do so.
The taciturn candidate has been ruled ineligble due to paperwork errors.
The beleaguered theme park strikes back at its critics with a series of videos—but given their attendance, did they need to?
Who's a good boy? Kaiser's a good boy, that's who.
Look at these lil' guys.
This is how you know it's a slow news week.
We have no idea what that actually means, either.
The story of Buddy the dog, a six-year-old golden retriever in San Antonio, could have big implications for Texas' controversial "severe bodily injury" laws that allow local animal control departments to euthanize people's pets.
After eight years of lobbying, the Texas Federation of Animal Care Societies finally got the law in effect.
My life with horses.
The critically endangered black rhino needs resources and efforts from humans to avoid extinction—and what's a better way to preserve an endangered species than auctioning off the right to kill one?
A Harlingen couple driving through Eastern Arkansas with their two Scottish terriers crashed their car in late September, leaving one dog dead and the other missing. But with the help of an honest-to-goodness pet detective and the Blytheville, Arkansas community, Doogie the Scottish terrier returned to Texas this week.
They might be blond, but they ain’t stupid.
How should we deal with exotic wild animals in captive settings? Be understanding companions, says Louis Dorfman.
You think you’re scared. Clarence here is about to mate for the first time. After which he’ll be killed and eaten.
The "dinner theater" chain supplies all of its castles with purebred Andalusian horses, which are all born at an unassuming ranch in Sanger, Texas.
It’s hard out there for a turtle. Especially one that’s endangered, y’all.
Eats scorpions. Mates for life. Doesn't really say, "Beep, beep!"
Training the wayward pups of Houston’s rich and famous.
Whatever you do, don’t ask him if he’s real.
The colorful Attwater's Prairie Chicken, a bird that flourished in Texas a hundred years ago, is on the verge of extinction.
Researchers at the University of Texas mapped the genome of the Texas Longhorn and discovered its heritage is more complicated than previously thought.
The living meme, which has a type of dwarfism and is officially named Tardar Sauce, visited Austin last week.
The most misunderstood swamp creature of them all.
Mystery archer killed a third donkey from the same Fort Worth pasture this week.
A Texas scientist purports to have sequenced Sasquatch DNA.
Feast on this: Turkeys and the three Texas presidents who pardoned them. Meantime, we hope you'll pardon us for taking a break from the TMDP. See you Monday with more great posts.
Pets separated from their owners by Superstorm Sandy got a lift from Southwest Airlines to a no-kill shelter in California.
Crimes against dolphins plague the Gulf of Mexico.
But how did the critically endangered sea turtle end up in the Netherlands in the first place?
A small controversy has erupted over the American Museum of Agriculture's decision to euthanize and stuff real mules for an exhibit.
Thousands of bug carcasses are smelling up local businesses.
Austin and Pflugerville saw three bee attacks in one week.
Just before Texas A&M officially joined the SEC, Reveille VIII and Bevo XIV bonded with each other (and their handlers) at a Williamson County ranch.
The feral cat and unofficial campus mascot was found dead on Thursday, but he's still got eight more lives on Twitter. An interview with @AggieBisbee.
Does this collar make me look fat? A new study suggests that one in four dogs in Texas is obese.
One Abilene chicken had a rough week.
The scimitar-horned oryx will be fully covered by the federal Endangered Species Act starting Wednesday, but could this mandated protection actually lead to the extinction of the species?
The always too-cute and too-clever Tumblr gives us Katis Joplin's Purrl.
The Dallas Zoo’s new koala exhibit, featuring two koalas on a thirty-month loan from the San Diego Zoo, opens Saturday.
Indian Country Today rallies its readers against the Texas Hunt Lodge, which offers a "rare White Buffalo Hunt."
Homeowners Associations have long had a bad rap, and that was before one tried to take away a disabled girl's pet kangaroo.
The Wall Street Journal’s Nathan Koppel writes about San Antonio's new court, designed to handle animal cases.
The zoo enlisted the endangered Indonesian pig to predict whether the city would have an early spring or six more weeks of winter.