TIME Magazine's Icon Maker of the Year, Artist Shepard Fairey, Joins Adopt-a-Pet.Com to Kick Off National Campaign (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)

Adopt-a-Pet.com's ADOPT Campaign launches muttslikeme.com and features a new iconic image created by Shepard Fairey -- modeled on Fairey's Obama "HOPE" poster

Pet Headquarters agrees to stop selling dogs (The Malibu Times)

Chris DeRose, founder of animal advocacy group LCA, with LCA members Kim Sill, Mark Goff, Robert Cabral and Bryan Stevens in front of Pet Headquarters.

VCA Antech declines after analyst cuts rating (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Shares of veterinary services provider VCA Antech Inc. slipped Wednesday after an analyst downgraded the stock, saying pet ownership may be in decline because of the recession.

US parents want answers after China milk scare (Washington Post)

-- Beth Flanders was on her way to China to adopt her 17-month-old daughter in September when she received a warning from her adoption agency: An industrial chemical that can cause kidney stones had been found in Chinese baby formula, and parents should not feed it to their new children.

City dweller goes hunting and pecking for a pet (The Daily News)

LOS ANGELES — Being the not-so-proud owner of a gecko and a goldfish, I didn’t put another un-cuddly animal high on my list of future pets. A chicken? The thought hadn’t occurred to me until a recent visit from friends who had spent the last few years downsizing their lives from San Francisco to Santa Cruz to a tiny Canadian town in the middle of nowhere.