Tiny, spiky, squeaking and snorting - pygmy hedgehogs are a prickly issue. Animal campaigners say they should not be kept as pets. But what do pygmy hedgehog owners say? "They're adorable balls of ...

We won the owl 732,000 acres of critical habitat in 1999. But developers fought back in 2001, with the tacit support of the Bush administration, and their lawsuit seeking to remove the pygmy owl’s’ ...

Unlike rigid porcupine quills, which are sharp, these creatures are more approachable and not dangerous as pets. The African ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— Following multiple petitions and lawsuits, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today again protected the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl as threatened under the Endangered Species Act after ...

The RSPCA has issued a warning after a surge in the number of African pygmy hedgehogs being kept as pets. The animal charity said the exotic creatures required a "considerable commitment".