Two-toed sloths can be legally owned as exotic pets in some states, but they require specialized care and are not particularly friendly. These slow-moving animals need specific pellet foods and fresh ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (FOX 13) - Even if you think the sound of chewing is like nails on a chalkboard, you may not be able to resist video of Josie the two-toed sloth chomping on carrots and apples. Josie's ...

FLOWER MOUND, TEXAS (CNN) --It's a slow day for one animal at the Earthwise Pet Store in Flower Mound. Sandy the sloth comes from the jungles of South America. Pet store owner Deana Otis says she put ...

The wildlife trade is the third-most-lucrative criminal enterprise. May 28, 2013 — -- In the bustling streets of a Colombian village, colorful exotic birds, monkeys and sloths, all animals that ...

Store owner Deana Otis pets Sandy the sloth at EarthWise Pet Supply. Sandy lives in a special enclosure at the shop. (Smiley N. Pool/Staff Photographer) Sandy sleeps 13 hours a day and poops twice a ...

That creature in the large cage? The one you can see through the front window of the exotic pet store near the southeast corner of Burnet and Research? That's a sloth, that creature – a slow-moving, ...

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 ...

Wildlife photographer Lucy Cooke's new book "Life in the Sloth Lane" is packed with stunning shots of sloths Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...