A 19-year-old German girl has filed a lawsuit because her mother gave her pets away. The girl says her mother confiscated her two guinea pigs, a dog and a litter of puppies and took them to an animal shelter.

A Maltese court has ruled that "nappies" can no longer be used to catch horse dung. In 2002, rules were issued requiring owners to place bags behind the horses to prevent excrement from hitting the streets, reports Reuters

"Some people may say it's goofy. I don't think it is," says, Konieczka, who paints his animals every bear and deer season to keep them safe.

Yvonne Lee - All Headline News Staff ReporterScientists at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, England used a food additive based on fumaric acid to decrease the odor of cows' gas by up to 70 percent. The acid is a chemical that is essential to animal and vegetable respiration, reports Reuters.

Four masked gunmen stole a lion cub and two Arabic-speaking parrots from a Gaza zoo recently, said Palestinian police chief and local media reports. The zoo's chairman of the board Suod al-Shawwa told Palestinian newspapers the men, carrying Kalashnikovs, tied up the zoo keeper before abducting the parrots, reports Reuters