Getting horses onto your rural property can be an exciting prospect, bringing with them an air of freedom and connection with nature that few other creatures can match. But owning and caring for these ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — A mostly rural community in northern Washtenaw County has relaxed rules for keeping farm animals on smaller ... allowed on lots with a net area of less than one acre.

However -- county officials still must approve the amount of animals someone can have. In non-rural areas, people can have 4 ...

Many in the rural areas are seeing a lot of white-tailed deer activity in their yards. The animals are gathering by grain bins, bird feeders, and picking at the bushes and young trees around ...

A study from Tel Aviv University, the first of its kind on mammals, has found that bats living in urban environments give ...