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 ...

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-- A Long Island town says a business that allows customers to hold, feed and now sell sloths is defying a court order to stop operating. Its owner claims he's complying with the law.

SAGINAW TWP, MI — Federal officials have suspended the license of a Saginaw Township pet store for numerous violations, including keeping a hyena cub in poor conditions. The same business found itself ...

Libertyville, IL- Monday, January 30, 2023 - BioDome, The Reptile Emporium is now open in Libertyville, IL. This new store on Peterson Road in Libertyville offers everything an exotic pet owner (or ...

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 ...

SAGINAW TWP., MI — It began with a two-toed sloth named Sid biting a teenage girl inside a Saginaw Township pet store. What followed was the unearthing of a spiraling web of intrigue. Social media ...

A Waco woman has found there’s money to be made in hedgehogs, prairie dogs and every other manner of exotic pet. Tierny Krueger’s Critters exotic pet store, off Hewitt Drive, has become a full-service ...

Owners Jacob and Michelle Smith were both nurses before opening the Lizard Lounge Exotic Pet Store in June, but after collecting animals and doing research, they decided to offer exotic animals and ...

Officers arrested the owner of Exotic Tropical Pet World on Monday, nine years after a suspicious blaze destroyed her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...