Class pets are an elementary school classic. If you don't have a slightly traumatic story about your class pet from when you were younger, you didn't get the full elementary school experience, and ...

Forest Hill, Md., July 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Pet Care Trust’s Pets in the Classroom grant is now accepting applications for the 2025–2026 school year. The Pets in the Classroom grant ...

Not everyone in Dana Cornelius’ third-grade class at Peebles Elementary School gets fed a fish on his or her birthday. But Yertle does. Yertle the turtle is Cornelius’ class pet. And speaking of ...

As a child, Ann Ott sought solace in Tippy, her family's dog, after she was sexually abused. As she worked through the trauma, Ott would hug Tippy and cry almost every night. "She slept with me and ...

“I need a doctor STAT!” echoed through the ER on a cold, windy, morning last week. Jumping up to help, I noticed the technician held the patient in her hands, it was clearly something tiny. I ...

OLD SAYBROOK, CT (WFSB) - According to a forum on Change.org, people are petitioning to allow class pets back into Old Saybrook Schools. As of Thursday afternoon, there were almost 300 signatures.

A dog in Topeka, Kansas had a day away from shelter life and spent it getting his education on at a high school — along with lots of pets and belly scratches. Bark Twain (yes, b-a-r-k) came to the ...