Brooklyn Heights parrot Roxy recovered after specialist treatment at AMC for a serious condition and is now thriving with her owners.
TWO NEW VETERINARY HOSPITALS in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint and Manhattan’s West Village neighborhoods celebrate their grand openings this weekend.
“Our city has 600,000 dogs, 311 complaints are surging, and virtually no irresponsible dog owner is facing consequences,” said CM Narcisse.
So far in 2026, eight animals citywide have tested positive for rabies. Including raccoons in Marine Park and Midwood.
Local dog owners in recent days noticed the pellets, which look like brightly colored pebbles or candy, scattered on Kermit Place.
A 40-FOOT-LONG MALE sei whale, weighing between 30 and 40 tons, was found dead on Rockaway Beach near Beach 95th Street on Thursday morning.
The women brought the turtles, who had been struggling in the cold, to the nearby Beastie Bestie pet store and Good Home animal rescue.
EAGLE-EYED BIRD-LOVERS on Tuesday discovered a rare trumpeter swan swimming in the East River off of the North 5th Street Pier.
HONEY’S NYC IS set to hold a fundraiser for the Animal Farm Foundation’s Pet Pantry initiative later this month.
ANIMAL RESCUE NONPROFIT Flatbush Cats on Saturday hosted a free community pet clinic with Flatbush Vet.
A chicken was found in an N train on a layup track at the Astoria station in Queens in the early morning.
Brooklyn’s birders are split over an unwritten “owl code” — a pact that discourages sharing owl locations to protect the birds.
Escalating vessel flow in New York waters has coincided with an alarming spike in humpback whale mortalities, underscoring a mounting hazard.
THE NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL on Thursday voted to allocate $500,000 in the FY 2026 budget for the expansion of spay and neuter services.
TWENTY ONE-YEAR-OLD Amazon parrot Lindo has been returned, following his theft from a cage outside a Park Slope laundromat on July 1.
The Bed-Stuy Aquarium semi-officially reopened near Tompkins Avenue and Hancock Street on June 24, featuring a spiffy new fish tank.
A small dog was stolen outside a store at 2519 Pitkin Ave. at around 9:50 a.m. on Saturday.
CITY OFFICIALS ON MONDAY announced progress on a planned $48 million animal shelter on Shepherd Avenue.
A 4-YEAR-OLD dog named Cooper was rescued after being left tied to a vehicle during a snowstorm last Saturday.
JUST OFF 96TH STREET, Gotham Whale confirmed reports of dolphins swimming in the East River on Feb. 14 and 15.
AN UNLUCKY SHEPHERD lost their sheep in Bushwick on Friday afternoon, when a video of men chasing a herd of six sheep went viral.
An urban pond where goldfish used to swim beneath a leaky New York City fire hydrant has been replaced by a new makeshift aquarium.
After years of work, a system of artificial reefs largely completed this summer could help soften the blow of future hurricanes.
The second baby of a tree-dwelling kangaroo made its public debut in New York, poking its pink head head out of its mom’s furry white pouch. The tiny Matschie’s tree
Mayumi Barrack sees a pair of mating periodical cicadas getting together, whips out her phone, says, “Hi guys!” and takes their picture. “I’m not really a bug person, but as
Three peregrine falcon chicks have hatched in a nest built at the top of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, officials said. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Bridges and Tunnels said Friday
DUMBO/FULTON FERRY— Roughly 15 crates of live chickens slid off the back of a poultry truck on Old Fulton Street in DUMBO on Monday morning, blocking the Cadman Plaza ramp
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar announced on Thursday that a Brooklyn man pleaded guilty to violating New York
Waddling in with lime-green booties on his front paws, Harrison, a beloved seven-year-old French bulldog, is a familiar sight at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center in New York City. “Between myself
When Will Zweigart and his partner Divya Anantharaman moved to Brooklyn, they were struck by the sheer number of street cats living in their Flatbush neighborhood. And so, Flatbush Cats
The 65-year-old woman who was bitten by a shark at a New York City beach has undergone five surgeries since the attack and will require more, her daughter said in a statement.
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Dogs (and their human companions) who visit Hillside Dog Park in Brooklyn Heights are helping to save the planet by recycling dog poop. It turns out that
The contests have names such as Predator Slam, Squirrel Scramble and Final Fling for Fox, sometimes challenging hunters to bag the heaviest coyote or the heftiest bunch of squirrels to
While judges, lawyers and support staff at the federal courthouse in Concord, New Hampshire, keep the American justice system buzzing, thousands of humble honeybees on the building’s roof are playing
Two dead humpback whales were spotted floating in the waters off New York this week, officials said, part of a troubling rise in whale deaths in the region. Necropsies were
New York City is at war with rats. That much was made clear after Mayor Eric Adams recently appointed a rat czar, who will be tasked with killing the pesky