 A ton of new websites promise to find you a local dog sitter. Care.com and its ilk end up inundating you with a depressing number of emails. DogVacay lets you find local dog lovers who open their homes. But I found a dog sitter I love on Yelp.
Keep reading How to find a dog-sitter online, sorting through the DogVacay, Care.com and Yelp options
 NY wants to double the number of bobcats hunted by expanding when and where they can be shot or trapped–all the way the suburbs of New York City. The new hunting area will include the burbs around Cold Spring and Woodbury Commons outlet mall.
Keep reading NY wants to bring bobcat hunting close to NYC
 Whales, dolphins and seals moving back to New York harbor, especially off Queens.
Keep reading Whale watching in NYC, New wolf in Africa
 A new alarming study says people can catch 100 diseases (like plague and meningitis) from dogs and cats–but doesn’t offer much evidence they actually do.
Keep reading Doctors try to panic people into banning dogs and cats from beds
 Rancho El Aribabi, a conservation ranch about 30 miles into Mexico, is working with Sky Alliance to save local wildlife. They’ve caught pictures of rare and elusive jaguars. You can support them with a visit. Coatis possible.
Keep reading Mexican ranch welcomes jaguars and animal tourists
 A tabby in Wales inherited from a relative turns out to be 39–and still playful but deaf.
Keep reading Welsh cat claims to be 39, making her world’s oldest
 A red-tailed hawk perched on an air conditioner stares at a pet cat inside a NYC apartment in a photo by Ada Nieves.
Keep reading Hawk stares at cat through fire escape window
 Russia is a strong tiger supporter, but India has nearly half of the endangered cats and promotes tiger tourism at a growing number of reserves.
Keep reading India has nearly half the world’s tigers
 The United States and the Fish and Wildlife Service just announced it was going to stall another year before coming up with a plan to save the jaguar.
Keep reading Is the Jaguar the next “experimental, non-essential” endangered species?
 Their lives are much better now than they once were. BooBoo, a black bear, was used to pay for a car in Iowa, sold to a dealer who wanted the bear to draw in customers. Tigers were about to be used in a canned hunt. The Coati Cocoa spent two years in a cage in a basement.
Keep reading Feed Zoo Animals? Yes, At This NJ Rescue Facility
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