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There’s never been a better time to adopt, and these animals are all looking for their forever home. Are you ready to add a new four-legged member to your family? Animal shelters across the country are once again teaming up with NBC and Telemundo stations to find loving homes for pets in need with the annual Clear The Shelters campaign....

Julie Sinaw was on vacation in Puerto Rico when she first became aware of the island’s large population of stray dogs. That’s when the seed was planted to form Animal Lighthouse Rescue, a nonprofit organization that rescues stray dogs in Puerto Rico and brings them to New York for adoption.

Arnold Guevara started with his Huntington Beach, California-based horse therapy program two weeks after losing his dad in a work accident. “Where I grew up there was sometimes shooting and fires and things like that,” he told NBCLX. “And it gets me worried because I feel like… that’s going to happen to my family.” On one of his first...

Fostering pets can be a great way to help an animal in need while bringing joy into your life. NBCLX producer Sara Sanchez, who has cared for about 40 animals, joined LX News to discuss how fostering has improved her anxiety and her life overall.

An animal therapy program in California is using rescue horses to help at-risk children in Los Angeles overcome their trauma. The Huntington Beach, Calif.-based program, called Free Rein, uses formerly wild horses that might otherwise be destined for a slaughterhouse to connect with children struggling with violence, abuse and grief.

A brewery on Long Island is delivering more than just beer during the coronavirus pandemic. It’s delivering joy brought by two golden retrievers carrying beer cans.

An upstate New York pet shelter has been flooded with positive messages and donations from all over the world after photos, seriously cute and “awww”-inducing photos, of a puppy and a pigeon were posted on its Facebook.

A video posted to social media shows a group of dogs reacting to the 5.8 magnitude quake that shook California on Wednesday

Siba the black standard poodle has pranced and advanced at the Westminster Kennel Club, and did it fueled by fast food.

A dog who was dubbed the unicorn puppy because of a tail-like growth between his eyes will remain with the founder of a Missouri rescue group, despite more than 300 offers to adopt him....
The beagle-mix puppy, named Narwhal the Little Magical Furry Unicorn, was rescued in November by Mac’s Mission in southeast Missouri. He drew international attention when his picture...

The San Diego Zoo has announced the latest addition of its wild family – a male pygmy hippopotamus whose successful birth was the first of its kind at the zoo in more than 30 years.

Four cheetah cubs at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute have new names voted for by the public.

A 10-year-old German boy transformed his quarantine boredom into creativity by creating a mini beer garden for a local squirrel.

The Calgary Zoo will be returning two giant pandas on loan from China because a scarcity of flights due to COVID-19 has caused problems with getting enough fresh and tasty bamboo to feed them.

Hundreds of people in the D.C. area have contacted officials to report suspected sightings of murder hornets. But the murder hornet, named the Asian giant hornet, has only been found in Washington state in the United States. Think you saw one? Here is how to identify one.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Vet School are studying whether dogs can use their keen sense of smell to identify COVID-19 patients.

Call it, the slowest eight minutes in sports. With the Kentucky Derby having been postponed, the first Saturday in May has yielded to the legs of a bunch of slowpokes: Seattle Slow headlines a field of turtles — yes, turtles — that will race in the Kentucky Turtle Derby. The race is more methodical marathon that mad dash to the…

Do you know what to you would do if you or your pet get sick? News4’s Tommy McFly reports on what you can do to prepare.

People who are stuck at home because of the coronavirus pandemic are seeing more animals outside their homes

A North Carlina pug named Winston has tested positive for the coronavirus along with three human members of his family after a Duke University study.