(UPI) Seven goats on the loose in Kansas City, Mo., since early August were finally wrangled by animal services officers and taken to a shelter.

The goats were initially believed to be part of a Port KC grazing project to...Read More

(UPI) Animal care and control officers in San Francisco came to the rescue of a coyote that spent several days living in a family's back yard.

Anthony Williams and Francesca Pomeroy said they initially thought a human ...Read More

(UPI) Authorities in Wisconsin are trying to find the owner of an unusual escaped pet found wandering the streets -- a large pig.

The Franklin Police Department said the porcine pedestrian was found wandering in the area ...Read More

(UPI) A North Carolina woman won $346,088 from a Cash 5 lottery drawing, her second major jackpot after previously winning $100,000 less than a year ago.

Newport resident Cathy Noe told North Carolina Education Lottery ...Read More

(UPI) A Royal National Lifeboat Institution crew in England responded to a report of a stranded person in the water -- but arrived to discover it was an RNLI training dummy lost by another crew two weeks earlier.

The RNLI...Read More

(UPI) A penguin that escaped from an animal encounter event on a Japanese island was found two weeks later after traveling more than 18 miles.

Gekidan Penters, a group that organizes animal encounters, said a 6-year-old ...Read More