A local veterinarian says she hopes the City Council will consider her bid for animal control services even though she missed Friday's deadline. ...more

November 17, 2009

City leaders spent months debating whether to cut ties with Pasco County Animal Services, but all the hand-wringing and split votes turned out to be for naught. ...more

November 14, 2009

With a crowd looking on, nuisance gator trapper Scot Barbon watches his toes as he subdues an 8-foot-7-inch alligator Tuesday at Sun Toyota on U.S. 19 in New Port Richey. The gator hid under a car on the dealership lot until Barbon arrived. The gator was subdued, and with the help of two Pasco County Sheriff's Office deputies, Barbon loaded it into a cage in his truck. ...more

April 29, 2009

Thumper isn't the only creature "twitterpated" come spring time. Errant gators looking for love in all the wrong places – such as Belinda Donaldson's front porch in Westwood Lakes – are too. ...more

April 24, 2009

Wildlife authorities are asking for the public's help this morning in locating a rhesus macaque monkey that is on the loose. ...more

January 14, 2009

The city has tailored its annual citizen survey this year to find out what residents think about subjects ranging from one-way traffic on Gall Boulevard to feral poultry. ...more

December 28, 2008

My son and I traipsed around our property and several adjacent woodlots before settling on our "recession tree." This Christmas the pickings were slim. A man just up the road was selling the fuller-figured, domesticated variety for $25, and he probably would have given us the neighborhood discount. But I lost my day job early in the fall. ...more

December 25, 2008

Meet Lex Brown, patas monkey trapper. Brown closely followed the saga of the 15 patas monkeys that escaped nearby Safari Wild in April and became his wily neighbors. ...more

December 19, 2008

A trapper has captured the last of 15 patas monkeys whose escape from Safari Wild eight months ago set in motion the events that led to the resignation today of Lex Salisbury, president of Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo. ...more

December 18, 2008

The city has tailored its annual citizen survey this year to find out what residents think about subjects ranging from one-way traffic on Gall Boulevard to feral poultry. In a few weeks, Zephyrhills will mail 1,300 questionnaires to a random sampling of residents. This is the fifth year the city has partnered with the University of South Florida and its research-method students to tap the psyche of city residents. ...more

December 15, 2008