When your cat goes outdoors, you may come home to a dead mouse, lizard, bird, or rabbit. My last indoor/outdoor cat, Oz, ...

A camera revealed the infestation in her ear, with hundreds of ticks the size of a grain of sand with their heads buried in the skin of her ear - sucking blood. The case was in Malaysia.

The first case of bird flu was confirmed in New Orleans last week after the H5N1 virus was detected in a house cat on Jan. 14, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.