The role of service and therapy animals continue to grow as people learn the powerful impact that contact and cooperation with other species can have on people. Dogs are helping kids who struggle with ...

NEWTOWNMOUNTKENNEDY, Ireland, March 26 (Reuters) - Flanked by a gaggle of smartphone-wielding onlookers, Irish farmer Joe Phelan ushered two alpacas down the corridor of a local nursing home as ...

With their 'huge brown eyes', camelid therapy animals ease anxiety among nursing home residents and those with special needs, farmer says Flanked by a gaggle of smartphone-wielding onlookers, Irish ...

Care home residents have been left 'overjoyed' after receiving an unusual visit - from alpacas. The two alpacas, Len Black and Anton Brown took a trip to Wingfield care home in Trowbridge, Wilts, as ...

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Alpacas dressed as reindeer have been bringing Christmas joy to care home residents in animal therapy sessions. Alpacas Luke and King Kong received a warm welcome earlier this month after paying a ...

WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. - A fuzzy friend showed up at a retirement community in Lehigh County Thursday. Residents got to check out an alpaca! A handler brought the animal to Fellowship Community in ...

Today's Bright Spot features the 13-year-old boy who hooked a 177-pound halibut off the coast of New England!

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in a series about local farms and farmers. MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Jimmy Ward swore up and down that after he retired, he wouldn't have any more animals. Then he married ...