Wildlife & Pets

ASVT: Hurricane Season Approaches… Are your pets ready? The month of May brings many things to Southeast Texas! One that is foremost on our minds...

Creature Chronicles: A Guide to Evicting an Unwanted Guest These opportunistic rascals with the masked faces are everywhere. They’re highly intelligent with amazing problem-solving skills...

Fishin' Hole Nature:Wolf Creek Park, Perfect Place for Nest Boxes   In 2014 the Piney Wood Lakes Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalists received permission from...

Pets With A Mission, Inc.: Let’s Get Social Domestic animals, especially dogs and cats, need to learn how to live in the world around them. ...

Pets With A Mission, Inc.: Inside Agility Games The weather has been challenging with a deep freeze for days followed by flooding rains.   In...

Creature Chronicles: The Top Dog As youngsters, we are told to be afraid of the “big bad wolf” but in reality, wolves don’t see us...

The Joy of Fostering Homeless Pets Animal Shelter Volunteers of Texas is a foster based rescue organization. We depend on foster parents to help us...

Get Pinchin’: Crawfish Season Heats Up the Gulf Coast Springtime on the Gulf Coast means more than just warm weather and blooming flowers. It’s crawfish...

Communing With Nature: Nesting in the Pineywoods The West Gulf Coastal Plain, known by Texans as the Pineywoods, is the most forested part of the...

Think Twice: Why Pets Shouldn’t Be Easter Gifts Every year, as Easter approaches, there's a surge in the sale of adorable animals like chicks, ducklings,...