You cannot be too careful when it comes to drugs and other harmful substances. If allowed, your pets can—and will—get into things you would never expect.

Imagine a world in which you are actually paid to surf the Web. It’s your "occupation". You get to tell Mom that you are a "Web Surfer". You spend your days online finding and enjoying sites, and organizing them into a directory that makes it easy for everyone to find them, too. Oh, and one other thing - you have to find sites about stuff you like (say, for example, animals and pets). Sounds rough, eh? Tune in to see how one of Yahoo!’s Pets surfers manages to get the job done. Tuesday, February 15th at 5pET/2pPT.

Seeking to cash in on the Internet craze on Wall Street, the online pet products retailer Petsmart.com Inc. filed on Friday to raise as much as $115 million in an initial stock offering. The company, based in Pasadena, Calif., offers a broad range of pet supplies and information, advice and educational materials to help pet owners learn about care and behavior, and the opportunity to interact with other pet owners.

The death of a 72-year-old woman with a pet cockatoo prompted medical researchers on Monday to warn people with compromised immune systems to avoid pet birds and their droppings. The woman was infected with a microscopic fungus called cryptococcus neoformans, or C. neoformans, a known danger to the health of immunosuppressed patients with diseases including AIDS. The same pathogen, researchers said, has been found in the feces of 26 percent of canaries, 18.4 percent of carrier pigeons and at lower rates among parakeets and parrots.