Sharon Price John is going around the room introducing me to stuffed animals. First is Bluey, then Pompompurin—one of “Hello Kitty’s best friends,” she explains. There’s a capybara she nicknames “Mr.

There are dog birthdays, and then there’s Ollie’s birthday, the Chocolate Labrador who just had the most wholesome day ever at Build-A-Bear. In the now-viral video, Ollie, wearing a green birthday hat ...

There’s a special kind of joy in watching a dog realize the day is all about them — and Ollie, the ever-charming chocolate Labrador behind @good.boy.ollie, clearly gets it. In his birthday video, he ...

It’s not every day that Henry the polar bear sees something that weighs more than he does. At 1,200-pounds, the polar bear is the world’s largest land predator, but here was something substantially ...

Recent footage from North Carolina shows a black bear using a backyard tree as the perfect back scratcher. The lighthearted moment captured the bear twisting and rubbing against the trunk, giving ...

Tokyo (CNN) — When Japanese soldiers arrived in the northern prefecture of Akita on Thursday, they prepared to face a new kind of threat – one with fuzzy ears and up to 220 pounds of mass. This ...

My bearbaiting season started on Apr. 15 and ended on Oct. 7…and 176 days after it started and 21 hunts later, I had no choice but to throw in the towel as it closed. This week’s column is about some ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan deployed troops Wednesday to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in a mountainous region in the northern prefecture of Akita. Reports of sometimes ...

TOKYO — Japan deployed troops Wednesday to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in a mountainous region in the northern prefecture of Akita. Reports of sometimes deadly ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Defense Ministry sent troops on Wednesday to the northern prefecture of Akita to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have horrified residents in the mountainous region.