The owner of the pet store claims the teen didn't follow instructions and got too close to the sloth, who he says mistook her arm for an apple. Sloths move about six feet per minute but even these ...

A Suffolk County Supreme Court judge has ordered the Hauppauge-based Sloth Encounters to halt pet sales after finding owner Larry Wallach guilty of violating court orders from March. In a decision ...

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-- There's more legal trouble for a Long Island business owner who sells sloths. The Suffolk County Supreme Court ordered the store to stop operating as a pet store or petting zoo or ...

Sloth Encounters, a Hauppauge business that charges $50 per half-hour to hold, feed and pet sloths, lacks a permit and was operating in violation of the Suffolk sanitary code, a county official said.

Fifteen-year-old Amarianna Ramon has been in love with sloths since she was in the 4th grade. However, Ramon's recent interaction with a sloth at a Michigan pet store may have changed her mind. When ...

Austin pet store Zoo Keeper Exotics, which sells reptiles and birds, is mourning the loss of its own pet. The beloved Sophia the Sloth, who won over the hearts of customers, was 32. Jillian Keeper, ...

Let's warm up by trying on a few "human" names, starting with the boys. Since all sloths hail from the rainforests of Central ...