This sloth shutdown was sloooooooow moving. After 18 months, Long Island officials finally put an exotic animal store — and its seven sloths — out of business. Larry Wallach charged $50 a pop for ...

JUPITER FARMS — The illegal pet trade is a billion-dollar industry that captures exotic animals or breeds them in captivity and sells them for a profit as pets, at the expense of their safety and ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

The exotic pet trade has become an alarming trend, driven largely by social media and wildlife encounters that blur the lines between wild animals and household pets. According to John Di Leonardo, ...

POCATELLO – Plenty of crawling and swimming creatures, both new and old, now inhabit a new store location. Aquatic Oasis, an exotic pet store that once occupied retail space in the Pine Ridge Mall, ...

The happy chirp of parakeets and grunts of just-fed micro pigs greet visitors to Temple’s new pet store. Not a place to find cats or dogs, RAD Exotics Pets and Supplies, 2305 N. Third St., specializes ...

You've heard of the 800-pound gorilla, but what about the 37,000-foot iguana? Jay Kirkpatrick, director of ZooMontana's Science and Conservation Center, said he deals with it all the time. "We get the ...

Grammy nominated rapper Lil Uzi Vert recently visited a North Jersey exotic pet store and, after meeting and interacting with a few fun animals, he went home with a new pet. The 28-year-old rapper ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — Ten small birds died after a fire broke out at Brandon's Exotic Pet Store in western Chesterfield County on Friday morning. Crews were dispatched to the store in the 11900 ...

SADDLE BROOK — The township Police Department is asking for help finding a parrot valued at about $7,000 stolen Thursday from an exotic bird shop. A man wearing a dark-colored Nike hooded sweatshirt ...

Parrots and tortoises are flooding animal-rescue organizations around the country as many owners fail to make arrangements for their long-lived species. Gene Bordeaux, a staff member at Oasis, a ...