Animals

For four days this week, Elsa and Joy toiled away on a challenging landscaping project in Georgetown, tearing away at invasive species spread across a hillside — and doing so with their teeth.

On a sunny spring day at the National Arboretum, Daniel Herrera is crawling on all fours.

A D.C. man was arrested and charged with felony dog fighting after authorities found 12 dogs and a five-foot-long alligator at his home in Southeast.

It turns out, legalizing pygmy hedgehogs was a more prickly issue than it seemed.

My first hedgehog used a litter box. We'd take the thin, Styrofoam trays that held grocery store meat, clean them, nestle them into the hay in the corner of her cage, and sprinkle on just enough kitty litter to absorb her waste. Her name…

There is a long-simmering, often overheated debate amongst animal lovers. It pits cat lovers, who want to help feral cats survive outdoors, against bird lovers, who say cats are causing bird populations to plummet. It’s team cat vs. team…