Exotic Pet News

THIS llama called Diago stunned judges at a horticultural show - mistaking a carefully arranged display of flowers for lunch.

Casting a line into the water at a local pond is one way to try to beat the heat on a hot summer day.

Michael Jackson did not love animals. He loved to collect them. He loved owning them, like a sheik owns a harem.

Warning: young children should not keep hamsters as pets, neither baby chicks, lizards and turtles for that matter - because of risks for disease.

The strangulation death of a two year old Florida girl by the family's pet python has veterinarians issuing a warning to people who keep exotic pets in their home.

If you think this would make a nice pet, don't try to buy one after Jan. 1. A bill banning any additional large exotic pets in Oregon was signed into law Friday.

Sixty children from the Children Development Centre in Kiarong visited the 1st Ornamental Fish Exhibition & Pet Show 2009 that opened June 6. The children, accompanied by six staff from the centre, were greeted on arrival by the organisers of the exhibition.

Venomous snakes, lemurs and a herd of wild boar are some of the dangerous wild animals kept in the county.

Construction workers building a new dorm at the Belmont University campus have discovered an exotic animal holding area that dates to the 1850s.

Perry County Sheriff Gary Schaaf is reminding county residents who own exotic animals that they need to register their animals with the local law enforcement agency.

During these rough economical times it may seem that owning a pet is a luxury that most people can no longer afford.

A Group of 70 Sekolah Ugama Pengiran Anak Puteri Masnah students and teachers recently paid a visit to the first Ornamental Fish Exhibition & Pet Show 2009.

Police officers didn't need to be big-game hunters, or even Crocodile Dundee, to capture a reptilian invader at Canoe Brook Lake.

MANHATTAN, Kan., -- Owners of exotic animals like reptiles and birds need to be aware of illnesses that can affect both their pet and humans, according to a Kansas State University veterinarian.

Thumbs up to the state Department of Environmental Protection and Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport for teaming up and holding Exotic Animal Amnesty Day.

A deadly black widow spider gave a woman working for a home removal firm a fright when she found the creature wrapped in a hose pipe.

Students looking for apartments may find themselves looking harder for that perfect place for their pets to live.

ONE of the world's deadliest spiders was found by a couple unpacking their possessions after returning to Wales from America.

Several pythons, tarantulas, lizards and other exotic animals are unaccounted for tonight, the result of a brazen burglary at a Madison pet shop.

The following was posted on a breeder/dealer/exotic pet owner board. The animals need your help against these kinds of abusers.