At the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, you can become a packrat and scurry around the new Packrat Playground.

The Phoenix Herpetological Society (PHS) located in North Scottsdale is a sanctuary for reptiles. 

ZooLights is a magical light display that has been shining bright at the Zoo for the past 25 years. 

Dog club promotes German shepherds, offers training for all breeds.

Idaho horse ranch gives second chance to orphan horses and other horses in need.

The Therapy Angels have 12 miniature horses that are a little over two feet tall — and they are trained as "therapy horses."

Rehabbing & Advocating for Dogs (RAD) held a booth at the Dove Mountain Veterinary grand opening on April 22. 

March 4 was a day to see bighorn sheep. At Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort and Spa, scopes were set up by the Arizona Fish and Game Department to see sheep. We didn’t see any because it was too windy and they usually stay on the other side of Santa Catalina Mountains. 

In Arizona, there are about 6,000 bighorn sheep. Translocations were done to get bighorns to our mountains. There are many reasons why bighorns disappeared in the 1990s. It could have been that people were building too close to their habitat, or drought, or disease or even the lack of wildfires. 

Kindness has been tossed around a lot these days. And Qizai, the 7-year-old panda who is the only brown panda in the world, knows how it feels to be treated unkindly. Qizai was abandoned by his mother at 2 months old. He was weak and neglected. He was found in the Qinling Mountains in China.

For a doggone good time, head over to the Phoenix Zoo. In 2002, the event was called “Boo at the Zoo.” In 2015 it was re-named “Howl-O-Ween,” which according to Addison Gardner, Special Event Planner, combines scary and merry activities for everyone to enjoy.