Sac Paws

At Arden Fair mall, Steve Reed carefully monitors people leaving pets in cars on warm days. And it concerns him.

Sacramento Zoo's young Wolf's guenon monkey will be named Zuri, the public has decided.

Bodie, the Sacramento police dog shot and critically injured by a suspected car thief nearly a year ago, is retiring from patrol duties to focus on community relations.

A decade ago, police dogs were seen as four-legged indulgences that took too big a bite out of the budget for most small-town departments to consider.

The Sacramento Zoo has released more cute pictures of its tiger cub -- and posted a video of the youngster and his mother on the zoo's website.

The public is invited to help choose a name for one of the Sacramento Zoo's newest arrivals, a Wolf's guenon monkey born Jan. 26.

Elk Grove police and fire personnel pulled a small dog from a storm drain Wednesday morning using an air hose to move the little pooch along.

Elk Grove police and fire personnel pulled a small dog from a storm drain this morning using an air hose to move the little pooch along.

Sacramento Police Officer John Azevedo, left, calls off K-9 Niko as he bites a protective suit worn Tuesday by volunteer Tim Kiesling.

Two people reported seeing a mountain lion in a South Lake Tahoe meadow last week.

A dog rescued from the Yolo County Animal Services shelter is helping search for bodies at the site of the Texas fertilizer plant explosion.

The Sacramento Zoo has been accredited again by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums independent accrediting commission.

A controversial animal cruelty bill was killed today, just hours before it was scheduled to be heard by the Assembly Committee on Agriculture.

The Sacramento Zoo has been accredited once again by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums independent accrediting commission.

More than 4,000 dogs from 100-plus breeds are featured in the Sacramento Kennel Club's annual four-day show, in its 92nd year, at Cal Expo this week.

Karina Hernandez sat on a classroom floor at Ethel I. Baker Elementary in Sacramento on Thursday and read aloud from one of the "Henry & Mudge" children's books.

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Starting Thursday, the Sacramento Kennel Club will host its annual show, a Sacramento tradition stretching back almost a century.

A Carmichael man who authorities suspect is implicated in a major dogfighting operation in Mississippi was arrested Wednesday.

Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District firefighters rescued a dog that fell down a steep hillside on Wednesday along the American River.

She was the voice of creatures unable to speak for themselves, from abused circus elephants to tigers mistreated on Hollywood movie sets.

Life was perfectly fine at Good Faith Ranch in West Sacramento, where Patrick the spotted horse once grazed, lounged and entertained his human companion, animal writer Gina Spadafori.

A day after confiscating a Rio Linda family's pet deer – saying chances were "very slim" they would release it into the wild – California Fish and Wildlife officials reversed course Wednesday and did so, alarming experts who say the doe won't be able to survive on her own.

A Sacramento-based animal protection organization is offering a $2,500 reward in an effort to find a person who shot a Woodland cat with a pellet gun earlier this month.

Six-year-old Ulises Cervantes watched from the doorway of his home Tuesday as uniformed Fish and Wildlife officials put his beloved pet deer, Floracita, in a wooden box on the back of a pickup truck and drove away.

Nature can be harsh and unforgiving; so too can nature writing.

It's a stressful, bewildering existence for most dogs at the Sacramento animal shelter. They don't understand why they are there. They don't know where they're going.

Competitors and their humans including Marcus Daniels of Elk Grove and Mika, middle above, eye the course just before a race Sunday in the 18th annual Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals. The event at Sleep Train Arena drew 40 dachshunds and their people in the competition for $250 and a chance to advance to the big race at the Holiday Bowl in San Diego on Dec. 27. Similar events all over the country have been held in the yearly effort to find the fastest wiener dog in the land. At left, Lisa Mones of Roseville cheerfully holds Loki, who looks a bit apprehensive despite being dressed in a colorful bow. Perhaps Loki was worried about the extra wind resistance.

Pit bull terrier owners can get free vaccines, identification microchips and vouchers for spay and neuter surgeries and dog training for their pets at events in the Sacramento area April 6.

The new veterinary medicine research facility at UC Davis brings together many programs that were scattered across the campus