Bob Barker.

The price was right for television personality and longtime animal rights activist Bob Barker Wednesday when he paid for 25 circus lions to be airlifted from Bolivia to Colorado. The 13 males and 12 females were left without a place to live after Bolivia passed a law last year prohibiting all performances involving animals due to unethical and deplorable living conditions. Thanks to the rescue, the 25 lions will now call the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colo., home. For more on this amazing feel-good story, watch the video below from our pals at "Good Morning America." ...

Flickr/helorits Miller In a group of animal lovers or "The Price is Right" hosts, it's easy to see a passion for adopting homeless pets and controlling the pet population. But thanks to a national survey commissioned by PetSmart Charities, we now have an insight to the overall national perceptions and opinions about pets. Among 1,000 new pet owners (those who acquired a dog or cat in the past year), the study found that only 24 percent were adopted from shelters. This means a whopping 76 percent of pets were received from sources other than shelters, with the primary reason being a desire for a specific purebreed. Interestingly, when those who purchased pets were asked what might motivate ...

Jim Spellman, WireImage Remember how Bob Barker used to end every episode of "The Price is Right" by reminding viewers to spay and neuter their pets? His devotion to animals didn't stop there. Now he's donated $1 million to his alma mater, Drury University, to establish a professorship on animal rights. According to the Associated Press, Barker "hopes the school will eventually be able to offer a program of studies that would train them to be animal rights activists and to respect animals." The new professorship, named for Barker's late wife Dorothy Jo Barker, went to Patricia McEachern, who will work to develop the nation's first undergraduate program in animal rights. McEachern told Paw ...