We suspect that many people, more especially city dwellers, laughed long and hard when they read in our Sunday edition about a young man who chose to turn a baby mongoose into a cuddly pet.

Best known as the star of Rudyard Kipling’s tale Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the mongoose is a cat-sized critter with an incredibly potent smell. But odor aside, this agile mammal is an intelligent ...

It was a mongoose. And not just any mongoose. This was a talking mongoose who went by the name of Gef. He resided at Doarlish Cashen (Cashen’s Gap), an isolated farmhouse where he had befriended ...

This is how Sam Halpern, executive officer of the CIA team charged with carrying out Operation Mongoose, described his orders from Director Helms. "And when I asked Dick, what does "Get rid of ...