Each year our Animal Fair readers look forward to animal awards season and there is no list like our Most Eligible Pets. Our Most Eligible Pets are the Oscars, Emmys or Grammies of the animal world and the competition is always tough with past winners including the pets of Miley Cyrus, Felicity Huffman, Glenn Close […]
Top 10 Animal Stories of 2007: A Pig’s Big Weight Troubles
What’s the big fuss about a 150 pound pot-bellied pig being one of our Animal Headliners? Oxymoronically, it’s the pot-bellied pig’s weight. When Minnesota resident Michelle Schmitz left her pig, Alaina Templeton, with a pet sitter, she weight 50 pounds. Nine months later Schmitz returned and the pig had gained 100 pounds. The weight […]
Pets on Wheels — Triumphs & Travails of Traveling With Your Pet
Travel with pets is either rewarding or risky business. Consider Mike Bell. Last June, the quality assurance manager for Network Associates in Santa Clara, boarded United Airlines for his direct flight home to California from Washington, D.C. While Bell’s boarding pass was coded, correctly, for San Jose, his dog’s crate was stamped for Salt […]