While it is expensive to buy and care for a horse, parents say the experience is worth it.

Customs officials seized a live shipment of the animals which can carry disease.

Movie and TV studios save money by renting dead animals.

Despite “Blackfish,” SeaWorld generated more than $1 billion last year

An export route has developed along the eastern seaboard with an unlikely commodity: homeless pets.

Japan and China have failed to block new restrictions on shark fishing at an international conference in Thailand.

Animal health care is the fastest growing sector of health care. Medicine for the pets we love and the livestock we eat is a more than $4 billion business for the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

In Australia, conservationists are making the case that koalas are a threatened species. Government regulators aren't so sure.

The price of looking after your pet is rising as far and fast as the cost of human healthcare. Gregory Warner reports on why we are willing to pay so much for our animals.