It takes a lot to catch a New Yorker off guard, with all the inherent weirdness and charm the five sprawling boroughs have to offer. But that's exactly what happened this week when one New York City ...

The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy rescued a distressed woman, her daughter and their pets, a cat and a tortoise from a sailboat that had been beset by weather about 925 miles off the coast of Hawaii.

Each year the Arizona Game and Fish Department adopts out countless numbers of captive desert tortoises that are surrendered to the department. Unfortunately, they cannot be released back into the ...

Like most people whose pets have gone missing, Jan Langton took to social media when her beloved tortoise escaped from her backyard in the Falcon Ridge area of Lenexa. “She went missing on August 5th, ...

A California wildfire continues to wreck devastation, destroying homes. One woman, who had a 175-pound tortoise, detailed escaping from the inferno. The fire ended up destroying several of her ...