Here are some tips from the Brown County Humane Society for making sure your pet stays safe this summer:

A Californian man (Roger Dier, 67, of Petaluma,) who kept 1,000 pet rats in his one bed home has admitted his colony had gotten a bit out of control.

A World Health Organization probe revealed that the bird flu virus mutated within an Indonesian family. An Indonesian man who died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu almost certainly caught the disease from his 10-year-old son. He is the first laboratory-confirmed case of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 strain.

Millions of Americans believe pets on the job lower absenteeism and encourage workers to get along, according to the survey by the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association.

Five days after burying “the love of his life” in a Colma pet cemetery, Jerry Cole got a letter saying his treasured white cat had to be dug up and moved.