Experts agree: a pet in the calssroom can elevate children's learning and understanding of the world around them. Pets help students learn math (their weight, how much to feed them), entice the ...

Instead of spending their weekend at the mall, PikeView Middle School students were hauling pet food and scrubbing kennels at ...

Nita Hemeter remembers the barking and meowing, and being able to look up from the middle of a New Orleans darkened by power outages to see "every star in the sky." It was early September 2005, a ...

I can remember growing up, we always had a pet, sometimes even two at a time. I still remember when we were in grade school and my sister brought home two gerbils from her classroom. They were ...