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If you live anywhere near Florida, don’t forget to prepare a go-bag and have an evacuation plan prepared as Tropical Storm Dorian makes its approach (and likely strengthens into a Category 3 or 4 hurricane). Read more...

In the days following Hurricane Dorian, several shelters in the U.S. have taken in hundreds of evacuated animals from impacted communities in the Bahamas. But before you decide to do a good deed and adopt one of these pets (or six of them), it’s important to…

At the Animal Care Centers of New York City, the shelters receive between 40 and 60 animals a day; during one holiday weekend last year, the shelters received more than 300 animals, including dogs, cats, and rabbits that were strays or were relinquished by ow…

Even if you do everything right, there’s still a chance your pet could end up with fleas. The good news is that there’s something you probably have at home right now that can help get rid of them: dish soap. Read more...

As Hurricane Dorian continues its path along Canada’s east coast, we’re only beginning to understand the damage it has caused thus far, particularly in hard-hit areas like the Bahamas. Read more...

If you’re an avid runner and a dog parent, the idea of hitching your four-legged friend up to his leash and pounding the pavement together might sound like a lot of fun. And it can be! Plus, it’s a good way for you both to get some exercise and stay fit – whi…

Like scary movies? Dish might have the perfect job for you. The company is looking to hire someone to watch 13 movies based on Stephen King novels before Halloween. The salary? $1300. Read more...

A Butcher Box Ground Beef Welcome Offer, a simplehuman Kitchen Steel Frame Dish Rack, and a 50% off sale at PUMA lead off Thursday’s best deals from around the web. Read more...

Offal—the organs and other bits of an animal typically discarded by butchers, also known as variety meats or an animal’s fifth cut—doesn’t always get the love it deserves. Most people know that plenty of immigrants to the U.S. cook with offal, from Chinese ch…

For good or ill, it's common for internet services to track what you do and offer "personalized" suggestions. But Yelp, that stalwart of internet reviews, is for the first time letting its users build a profile of their tastes which will be used to make bette…

The quintessential college experience of getting pizza delivered to a dorm room is about to get a high-tech upgrade. Starship Technologies has announced its plan to deploy thousands of its autonomous six-wheeled delivery robots on college campuses around the …

Waymo is taking some of its autonomous vehicles to Florida just in time for hurricane season to begin testing in heavy rain. The move to Florida will focus on testing how its myriad of sensors hold up during the region’s rainy season as well as to collect dat…

Yelp announced this morning that it will start allowing users to tailor their search results and homepage based on their personal preferences. In other words, if you’re vegetarian, or if you’re parent who’s usually looking for kid-friendly restaurants, you wo…

A new report from the UK seems to confirm vets’ worst fears, suggesting that pet vaccination rates in the country have dropped off substantially in recent years. Read more...

Canuck, the bad-ass crow hero who likes knives, fire, and crime, has reportedly gone missing. Read more...

After a quarter-century of continuous operation, the San Francisco FogCam is set to go offline on August 30. Read more...

On Monday, an Oklahoma judge found Johnson & Johnson culpable for having sparked rates of opioid misuse and overdose deaths in the state, ordering the company to pay out $572.1 million in damages. The verdict will likely be appealed by the pharmaceutical …

New research suggests rats are capable of learning to play hide-and-go-seek with humans—and they appeared to legitimately enjoy the game. Rats, as this new research demonstrates, just wanna have fun. Read more...

Gifs lit up Web 1.0 like Las Vegas—the torches, crystal balls, humping muppets, dancing babies, mailboxes opening and closing to indicate that you’ve got mail—all signaling that crimson castles, their divorced dads clubs, and in-browser spaceships were hip an…

After Hurricane Irma in 2017, a dozen patients died in a nursing home. The tragedy taught officials that evacuation orders were not enough to protect the state’s older population.