Here you are 18 days into yet another failed New Year's Resolution to get in shape, while all around you Corgis, tabby cats, bunnies, crustaceans, hamsters, ferrets and a dog of indistinct heritage wearing a moose suit, are hitting the gym and going for the burn.

Two-thirds of American pet owners say their pets have a sixth sense about everything from bad weather to bad news, a new poll finds.

Celebrations in Germany after a Rhodesian Ridgeback gives birth to 17 puppies, and all survive. TODAYshow.com's Dara Brown reports. (TODAY show)

A majority of all pet owners ? 53 percent ? said in an Associated Press-Petside.com poll that they plan to get their animals a present this holiday season.

He was found in the bottom of a Dumpster, after having his ears viciously hacked off.

A suburban Detroit man whose ailing 11-year-old Rottweiler survived a botched euthanasia said he has neither the heart nor the money to try the procedure again.

Dogs with a "food-bowl-half-empty" attitude are more likely to bark, yowl and chew when left alone than dogs with a sunnier outlook, according to a new study.

As human waistlines have ballooned, so has the girth of our pets. A 2009 national survey of veterinarians found that 45 percent of dogs and 58 percent of cats were overweight or obese.

A Labrador who ate a bee-hive. The terrier who attacked a chain-saw.  These aren't doggies with a death wish. They're just normal pooches, according to some of the bizarre accidents reported to pet insurance companies.

Linda Bruno called her Pennsylvania cat rescue the land of milk and tuna. It thrived for years as people sent pets they couldn't care for from hundreds of miles away ? unaware it was a death camp for cats.

The Centers for Disease Control says salmonella tainted pet food poses danger to young children. WNBC's Lynda Baquero reports. (NBC News Channel)

Easter bunnies grow up and the novelty wears off. Come summer, people often just dump the bunnies.

Gina was a playful 2-year-old German shepherd when she went to Iraq as a highly trained bomb-sniffing dog with the military. Now, veterinarians say, she has post-traumatic stress disorder.

Bulldog and pug owners, beware: Short-snouted breeds accounted for roughly half the purebred dog deaths on airplanes in the past five years, government data released Friday shows.

Double-bunked behind the bars at the overrun St. Bernard Animal Shelter are more victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill: shiny-coated Labrador retrievers, long-haired Chihuahuas and a fluffy Shih Tzu.

The American Kennel Club is welcoming a trio of new breeds to join the 164 already in its registry. The Icelandic sheepdog joins the Herding Group, while the Cane Corso and the Leonberger are new entrants in the Working Group.

A cat that had both its back legs severed by a combine harvester can walk again after being fitted with prosthetic limbs in a world-first operation.

There's a new breed of dog groomer for those who can afford it ? dog stylists. Groomers keep dogs clean; stylists make them fabulous.