<div><p>Warning: young children should not keep hedgehogs as pets — or hamsters, baby chicks, lizards and turtles, for that matter — because of risks for disease.</p><p>That's according to the nation's leading pediatricians' group in a new report about dangers from exotic animals.</p><p ...

<div id="subtitle">Pediatricians: Hedgehogs, chicks and other exotic pets don't belong in homes with young kids</div><div><p>Warning: young children should not keep hedgehogs as pets — or hamsters, baby chicks, lizards and turtles, for that matter — because of risks for disease.</p><p>That ...

<div id="subtitle">Shortage of large animal vets taxes farmers, clinic owners; more money in treating pets</div><div><p>This summer, Steve Sanford had to tell 106 dairy farmers in rural northern Vermont he could no longer treat their cows.</p><p>Battling degenerative arthritis, the 56-year-old ...