Practical guides to pet care, trips and boarding, backyard birds, and freshwater aquariums, alongside explanations of wildlife behavior and animal science. Historical stories remain available below with their original publication years.
Everyday pet care
Pet Adoption: Readiness, Shelter Questions, and the First Week
Match a pet’s needs to your household, ask useful adoption questions, prepare a quiet home, and plan the first week of care.
Pet Microchips: Find the Registry and Update Your Details
Find your pet’s microchip registry, confirm contact information, complete an ownership transfer, and prepare a usable lost-pet record.
Understanding Cats: Body Language, Play, and Everyday Behavior
Observe your cat in context, offer choice and suitable play, and recognize changes that merit veterinary advice.
Automatic Litter Boxes: Suitability, Cleaning, and Daily Checks
Assess an automatic litter box against your cat’s needs, the exact model’s safety instructions, ongoing cleaning, consumable costs, and health observations.
Pet Shampoo: Choosing a Product and Planning a Bath
Read species and use directions, prepare a manageable bath, and recognize skin concerns that need veterinary advice.
Dog Health Problems: Urgent Signs and Useful Veterinary Notes
Recognize concerns that need emergency care, describe changes clearly, and prepare an observation and medication record for your veterinarian.
Cat Health Problems: First Visits, FIV/FeLV Tests, and Home Notes
Prepare a cat’s veterinary records, understand why FIV and FeLV results may need follow-up, and track changes that deserve veterinary attention.
Travel, daycare, and boarding
Pet Road Trips: Lodging, Stops, Packing, and Backup Plans
Plan a pet road trip around confirmed lodging rules, manageable travel days, familiar supplies, and a backup caregiver.
Dog Car Restraints: Compare Testing, Fit, and Installation
Evaluate a dog car harness, carrier, or crate using independent testing, the exact model manual, your dog’s measurements, and vehicle compatibility.
Pet Air Travel: Build a Route and Document Plan
Coordinate airline acceptance, destination entry rules, veterinary documents, container requirements, and the return trip, with a U.S.–Great Britain example.
Dog Daycare and Boarding: Questions to Ask Before Booking
Compare supervision, rest, health policies, overnight coverage, and emergency arrangements before choosing care for your dog.
Birds and outdoor spaces
Bird Song Identification: Record, Compare, and Confirm
Use careful listening, a useful recording, Merlin Sound ID, and independent comparisons to identify birds by sound.
Bird Houses: Choose a Species, a Plan, and a Suitable Site
Select a nest box using local species and habitat, evaluate construction features, and plan placement and responsible monitoring.
Bird Feeders: Choose for Cleaning, Food, and a Safer Garden
Choose a feeder you can clean thoroughly, match food to local birds, reduce window hazards, and maintain a practical care routine.
Fire Ant Control Around Pets: Inspection, Treatment Decisions, and Access
Assess suspected fire ants, choose locally appropriate control, and plan pet access using the exact pesticide label.
Freshwater aquariums
Freshwater Aquariums: Species Needs, Water Quality, and a First-Tank Plan
Compare adult fish needs, prepare filtration, understand water-test records, and plan routine aquarium care before stocking.
Wildlife and animal science
Dolphin Watching: Choosing an Operator and Understanding Viewing Rules
Find local dolphin-viewing rules, compare operators, and plan an outing with clear wildlife and passenger policies.
How Bees Communicate: Waggle Dances, Scent Trails, and Evidence
Compare honeybee dances with stingless-bee scent recruitment and see how experiments distinguish observations from hypotheses.
Antarctic Penguins, Sea Ice, and What Satellites Can Show
Read penguin and sea-ice findings by species, region, observation date, and measurement method, with a Ross Sea case study.
Antibiotics in Food Animals: Uses, Resistance, Rules, and Labels
Understand animal antibiotic uses, resistance and residues, U.S. veterinary oversight, and the scope of food-label claims.
Pet stories and earlier directories
Historical coverage and older reference pages; dates identify the original material.
- Ellen DeGeneres Winter Pet Collection: Ski-Themed Accessories, Outerwear, Toys — Historical coverage, 2017.
- Doggy Daycare DVD for Dogs — Historical coverage, 2005.
- Cat Cafe — Historical coverage, 2004.
- Pet Makeover — Historical coverage, 2004.
- Dog Sled Race — Historical coverage, 2002.
- Pony Links — Historical coverage, 2017.
Wildlife stories and reference collections
Historical coverage and older reference pages; dates identify the original material.
- Baby Wholphin — Historical coverage, 2005.
- Steve Irwin — Historical coverage, 2004.
- Panda Bears — Historical coverage, 2004.
- Chimps - Chimpanzees — Historical coverage, 2003.
- Toronto Zoo Tiger Cubs — Historical coverage, 2003.
- Mute and Whooper Swans — Historical coverage, 2003.
- Dodo Bird History, Pictures, Extinction — Historical coverage, 2003.
- Jaguar Animal Picture — Historical coverage, 2002.
Earlier animal biology and research coverage
Historical coverage and older reference pages; dates identify the original material.
- Proteins Delay Aging in Worms; May Unlock Secret to Long Life — Historical coverage, 2017.
- Spiders — Historical coverage, 2002.
- Animal Scents — Historical coverage, 2002.