Looking after a pet can teach your child about compassion, responsibility and coping with loss. For their first animal companion, though, it makes sense to choose something small and relatively low ...

Goldfish have been lied about more than any other pet. No, they don’t have three-second memories, and no, they can’t live forever in a bowl the size of a latte. These fish are drama queens with long ...

Goldfish are often misunderstood as low-maintenance pets when, in truth, they require much more than a bowl and a few flakes. These elegant, intelligent fish can live for more than a decade if raised ...

Clifton Crosson, general manager at Petco Animal Supplies, 9645 S. Riverside Drive, will quickly tell you that an aquarium is a good entry into pet ownership for a child, but he cautions that the ...

If you’re considering getting fish because you don’t want a high-maintenance pet, you may want to reconsider. Jessie Sanders, DVM, a certified aquatic veterinarian who practices in the San Francisco ...

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