Man's best friend is increasingly being abandoned on the street, often by people facing financial hardships who can no longer afford to feed or house them. "Animal shelters generally reflect what is ...

Dozens of shelter pets now have a better chance of finding a forever home. More than 120 at-risk dogs and cats from overpopulated shelters were transported on a life-saving airlift to New Jersey and ...

The small, compact basenji is known as a skilled hunter and, oddly enough, a yodeler of sorts. That’s because the roughly 16-inch-tall hunting dog is perhaps best known in the world for its inability ...

Constant phone calls from desperate pet owners. Hallways full of temporary dog crates. Fewer adoptions. Animal shelters across the U.S. are overwhelmed and overflowing. With more workers heading back ...

Clear The Shelters will be celebrating a decade in 2024. The nationwide pet adoption and donation campaign from NBCUniversal Local is returning for the 10th straight year this August, the company ...

The donation initiative, which began Aug. 1, is on an extended run until Sept. 30 in celebration of Clear The Shelters’ 10 th anniversary. But starting Saturday, donations can now be made to a ...

You can adopt a pet at this year’s NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 Clear the Shelters™ from Now through September 10. This is the purr-fect opportunity to grow your family. All month long some shelters have ...

Manganiello has a special connection to animal adoption. He had never been a pet owner and wasn't looking to become one when he met his dog Bubbles by happenstance roughly six years ago. Bubbles, a ...

Life in an animal shelter for dogs and cats and other creatures that have the misfortune to end up there is never great. They can languish for months, waiting to be adopted out to what animal ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. --On Wednesday, there was a special delivery at the Animal Humane Society: 20 dogs from Alabama arrived with their crates perfectly packed inside the back of a van to find their ...