animals

Imagine hundreds of pigs running around your neighborhood. Not a few--HUNDREDS. Pigs were running everywhere in Buffalo. On the East side of Buffalo, there were hundreds and hundreds of pigs that were running through the neighborhoods. 102 years ago this week, this story from Buffalo, New York was printed in newspapers across the United States.

Does New York State have a ban on certain dogs that are considered vicious and possibly deadly?

Shame on the owner of this dog. An owner cowardly left after this incident in 2016 and they are still looking for the owner of the dog. Nine-year-old Meech Mills was just "really sad" about his finger that is now, mostly, missing. Now 15 years old, Mills is still missing his finger.

We've got a ton of ways to find out what the weather is going to be. But even with all those methods it's not 100% certain. These animals might be able to help.

The coyote was acting really weird. It would take a few steps and then just stand there for minutes at a time. Take a few more steps and then stop for a while again. It looked like it was losing its hair and kind of mangey. Was it just mange? Did it have rabies? Is it weird to see a coyote just chilling in the wide-open yard at 11 in the morning?

A Buffalo woman has been arraigned on animal cruelty charges for an incident that happened in Cheektowaga.

A Buffalo, New York man is recovering in the hospital after being severely mauled by a grizzly bear in Wyoming.

There was legit a 4 and a half foot monitor lizard, the same family as the Komodo Dragon, walking around Western New York!  There was a guy who was moving out of his apartment in the Village of Attica and somehow his pet monitor lizard got out. The lizard was a 4 and a half, monitor lizard that got out and started wandering around town last summer.

Take a look at this hawk that got stuck earlier in the month. Orleans County ECO Fonda responded to a complaint of a hawk in distress at Lakeside State Park in the town of Carlton.

It's something that could shut down the Erie County SPCA for 30 days. There was a case of the bird flu right in Western New York in Orleans County and the Erie County SPCA is taking measures and precautions to make sure that they can treat animals as best that they can. Lately, the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, a strain of the bird flu has been running ramped.

True story yesterday. A SEAL was found in the middle of the road, and as you can imagine everyone was wondering what the heck was going on.

Can the cold long winters in New York affect your dog's mood?