For this year’s pets issue, we’re thinking about the kindness that animals draw from us. Our annual pet pageant winners, like ...

The huge uptick in dog ownership during lockdown is now seeing an unwelcome afterburn. People are increasingly finding that they can’t look after their pets. The cost of living is impacting hard.

This story appears in the April 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. All across the nation ... wild animals kept as pets live side by side with their human owners. It’s believed that ...