On Friday morning, the Harris County Animal Shelter in Houston, Texas, opened its doors. Within a few hours, 100 animals were surrendered to the shelter—a huge number for a facility that can comfortably hold 150 homeless animals at a time.…
This 15-year-old husky has never been inside a house. Rather, he’s spent his entire life chained up outside of one. In February, emergency workers rushed to a demolition area in New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after a roof collapsed on a broken-down…
This is Zuzu, a 2-year-old German Shepherd who was given up by her family and now lives in the Downey Animal Care Center in California, US. Zuzu is described as “beautiful and loving” by shelter volunteers, but sadly Zuzu’s former…
Lana was just a puppy when she was found on the streets and brought to the Arizona Animal Welfare League & SPCA, where she was soon adopted. Unfortunately for the bullmastiff mix, the person who took her in returned her to…
A Moscow-based illustrator who goes by the pen name “Bird Born” usually draws fun comics about the everyday lives of weirdly feline-looking people. But then he adopted a dog from the shelter, and his life was turned upside-down. So much so that…
The kind folks at San Francisco Animal Care & Control (SFACC) usually post cute photos of their “adoptables” on their Twitter page. If #Chihuahuas & #Pibbles aren't your thing we have other models (You really should consider Chis and Pitties tho) pic.twitter.com/L9mQLL1HJb…