Pop quiz: If your colleague says they’re picking up “Bella” at daycare, are they talking about a baby… or a bulldog? It’s a tough question to answer, at least according to a new poll from US News and World Report that puts “Bella” as the current #1 dog name in America — and a top … Read more
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. Margot died in June 2023. Gloria died in December 2025. Mingo is what’s left of a senior rescue pack that used to be a threesome, and somewhere in the months … Read more
New York Post may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Ask a pet owner what they’d do if the vet visit estimate came back at $6,000, and most already know the answer. Roughly 76% of pet owners say they would take on debt if … Read more
Turns out, “crazy cat ladies” may not be so crazy after all. Researchers from the University of Lucerne in Switzerland surveyed more than 2,300 Swiss adults about their relationships with animals, finding that gender was one of several factors linked to how closely people connected with their pets. But the findings were not entirely warm … Read more
New York Post may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Two days after Christmas, I was standing at a vet’s counter in rural Virginia, watching my mini schnauzer, Gloria, struggle to breathe in an emergency oxygen chamber. I had to ask the question every … Read more
New York Post may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Here’s a question almost nobody wants to answer out loud: What’s the most you’d be willing to spend to save your dog’s life? A new study went ahead and asked, and the number is … Read more
New York Post may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. If you feel like you are spending significantly more on your dog today than you were just a few years ago, you aren’t imagining things. Veterinary inflation, supply chain shifts and the rising cost … Read more
New York Post may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. If you are wondering exactly how much it costs to own a dog in 2026, the short answer is: a whole lot. Between the essentials, the medical care and the irresistible urge to spoil … Read more
New York Post may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Gloria died on December 27, 2025. My partner flew in from New York the day before to be by her side. She’d been in an oxygen tent at a vet near my parents’ house for … Read more
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. Bringing a new pet home is amazing, but let’s be honest, it’s also exhausting. When my husband and I brought our Mini Sheepadoodle, Lucy, home, our lives changed instantly. From … Read more
New York Post may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. I’d be lying if I told you I could afford owning a dog by myself. My husband and I are what most people call DINKS: Double Income, No Kids. But honestly, if it weren’t … Read more
New York Post may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. When we talk about the cost of a pet, it’s about more than the “price of admission.” Whether you pick up your dog from a specialized breeder or choose to adopt, both can cost … Read more
Theater review CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL 2 hours and 25 minutes, with one intermission at the Broadhurst Theatre, 235 W. 44th Street. There’s a loud, pulsing party happening every night in Midtown. Bodies gyrate in a warehouse as the club beats nntz nntz. The neon outfits range from “Let’s Get Physical” to fully architectural while … Read more
She’s living the life she wants to live. Most people know Enya as the widely successful Irish singer who has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide, beating out the hit-making boy band One Direction, making her one of the world’s best-selling music artists. Contrary to what most would assume of someone who has reached that … Read more
These pet parents are paws-itively committed to their furry friends. One in three pet owners spends more on their pets each month than they do on their own health and wellness needs, according to a new survey from US News & World Report. Spending piles up quickly. Of the 1,500 questioned — with 68% identifying … Read more
Call it “petuition”: new research has found the average pet parent worries about how happy their pets are 11 times per day, and worries about their pets’ health 10 times per day. The poll of 2,000 U.S. pet parents, nationally representative and split between respondents with dogs and respondents with cats, found they often worry … Read more
Did she combine all her nine lives in one? An aged cat named Flossie has just reached another major life milestone. The long-lived feline turned 30 on Dec. 29, extending her Guinness World Record run as the oldest living cat on Earth, the Express Tribune reported. “I knew from the start that Flossie was a … Read more
Meowzempic is here. Experts estimate that more than half of the world’s pet cats are overweight — and now the flabby tabbies might soon have their own version of Ozempic. Pet meds company OKAVA Pharmaceuticals has announced that the first clinical trial — dubbed MEOW-1 (ManagEment of OverWeight cats with OKV-119) — for a feline … Read more
You are now free to roam about the cat-bin. One furry flyer’s premature bid for freedom put a smile on a plane full of Thanksgiving travelers’ faces when it escaped his carrier and started wandering the aisles. Amid the commotion on board, the frisky feline was briskly scooped into the arms of a Southwest Airlines … Read more
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. A kitten in Brazil is being dubbed the “cyclops cat” after it was born with one eye, as seen in a viral video. “I’m 32 years old and I’ve never seen anything like this in my life,” farmhand Gilberto Almeida told NewsX of the one-eyed feline, which … Read more