Blog Posts by Subject: Animals

You can honor Earth Day and Arbor Day Every Day.

Enjoy the summer with your four-legged friends, and make sure they stay happy and healthy.

For dog and dachshund lovers alike, here are some children's and adult books that celebrate this spunky little dog with the big personality.

Show us your Punxsutawney genius by identifying the groundhogs in the following pictures.

Kinnaman Ranch in Alaska is home to many llamas, bears and JT.

Jolanta's podcast on dog training was named the iTunes podcast of the year in 2009. Better yet, this trainer extraordinare resides in our very city. So if your canine requires behavioral intervention, you could give her a call. 

Teaching a dog to not go through open doors, leaving tempting steaks alone, crossing his or her front paws to "act like a lady," walking on a slack leash, not jumping up on people, and not barking incessantly. 

Some movies are so bad they're good. In this particular specimen, 70 cast and crew members were injured during filming too.

A step-by-step guide for creating your own elephant, courtesy of the staff at the Throg's Neck Library!

Dogs and books. What could be better? How about if we combine the two? What do we get? Books about dogs! If you're a fan of books and dogs, here are a few titles that may interest you.

Culinary tours…global entrepreneurs…dangerous political weapons in America…Nazi art theft and the quest for justice…forensic DNA…the Tappan Zee Mega Project…the Gowanus Canal…. If any of these topics have piqued your interest, then please join us for an Author @ the Library program in October at the Mid-Manhattan Library.

Cadbury, the lemon beagle at the Paws and Claws Pet Store, beckons to Veronica Morgan.

If you'd like to understand why more wild animals are venturing into urban environments; to discover how the great impressionist Monet ate; to examine the Polaroid-Kodak patent war; to celebrate the music and poetry of Leonard Cohen; to learn how to beat fatigue; to explore the economic consequences of climate change; to relive a harrowing but heroic moment in Armenian history; to argue against suicide; or learn how to cope with the narcissists in your life, please join us this month!

This summer, why not explore some great nonfiction science reads about animals, both on land and underseas, and the ways in which they continually surprise humans.

June is, in addition to usually being a resplendent, glorious month in terms of weather, a month replete with (hopefully!) permanent pairings in the form of weddings.While the tradition of humans of various backgrounds gazing into each other’s eyes whilst professing lifelong fealty and devotion, under all circumstances is a touching and noble one, there is another tradition that occurs all year round as well, but that is specially emphasized during the month of June: National Adopt-a-Shelter Cat Month.

An old man and a woman live in a beautiful house in the countryside, but they are lonely without any other people or animals about. Enter cats. Millions of cats.

Sophie's in the Congo for the summer, where she helps the bonobos at her mom's sanctuary. Bonobos are an endangered species, and mothers get killed in the wild so that the locals can sell the babies as pets. That is how Sophie meets Otto.

A children's book telling the story of a pony with a prosthetic leg.

Brooke is in love with her Chincoteague pony, Foxy. She schools the pony herself, but it is a slow, gradual process.

The pony in this story is plaintive and adorable.