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 ...

A good class pet is active during the school day, comfortable with the average temperature and humidity in the building, and safe to handle, Hrin said. It’s easier to meet those criteria with insects ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...