Animals

As much as I hate to admit it, I am in puppy mode.

Our featured Wet Nose this week is absolutely full of love. His name is Wazowski, and he's waiting to be adopted at the Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter.

We're celebrating all the wet noses around the Treasure State, from the mutts, the purebreds, and everything in between

The shrill mating call of the cicada is impossible to miss along the Yellowstone River. The loudest bug in the world is harmless to humans and pets; only the male creates the ear-piercing sound.

He's a Boxer mix and looking for his person now at the Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter.

Some of the other markets around let people have their animals as long as they are leashed.

A whitetail doe somehow got trapped upside down in a narrow trench on a homeowner's property near Plains. A quick-thinking neighbor did what any good Montana neighbor would do, and helped rescue the frightened creature.

Beef-a-what? With fewer calories, less fat, and 1/3 the cholesterol of traditional beef, Beefalo is expected to become a popular option for health-conscious meat lovers.

Forget about the movies. Have a real-life Jurrasic adventure in Ekalaka this summer at the annual Dino Shindig, July 23 - 24 at the Carter County Museum.

While all of the snake species in Montana may creep you out, remember only one is venomous and is rarely fatal.

It's almost unimaginable that this little dog could be walking around with rocks in its body, but that's precisely what the Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter team discovered this week.

A Billings resident who owns rentals about a block off of Grand Avenue posted a video of a cougar who walked onto the back porch of one of his units on Friday evening.