Before You Adopt

I was never supposed to have a pet. My fiancé, Alex, and I are both huge dog lovers, but our New York City landlord wouldn’t allow it, and we love our apartment. This led to many years of fostering rescue pups whom we attempted to keep secret from him, with varying degrees of success.

“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” actor Skylar Astin discusses his involvement with NBC’s “Clear the Shelters” campaign which has provided over 411,000 pet adoptions since 2015. Astin will be doing “A Home for Hilly” ebook live reading where Hill’s Pets will donate a $1 per view up to $10,000.

The mental health benefits can’t be denied when something as simple as petting your dog releases a chemical in your brain that makes you feel safe.

If you are thinking of adopting a dog or a cat but are worried about COVID, you might like to know that veterinarians and others believe there is little chance of your contracting COVID-19 from your pet. “Based on the limited information available to date, the risk of animals spreading COVID-19 to people is considered to be low,” the CDC...

As you spend prolonged periods of time indoors, you may be considering adopting or purchasing a puppy

Animal shelters are facing a new set of challenges during the coronavirus pandemic as shelter-in-place and mandatory stay-at-home orders are impacting homeless pets and animal adoption services.

Aimee Gilbreath from Michelson Found Animals shares five tips to help you with the pet adoption process.

Prospective pet owners can now choose the furry friend they want without having to leave their home. Five years after it first launched, the adoption app WeRescue has expanded its reach across the U.S. and in Canada, and has hundreds of thousands of pets available for adoption at over 3,000 rescue organizations. “We pull in data from all these diff...

There are a million reasons why people love dogs. They make great companions, provide a slew of the health benefits and love unconditionally. Yet, there are lots of valid reasons why some people opt out of bringing home a furry friend. From cramped living quarters, to allergies, to busy work schedules and social lives, caring for a dog is a......

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have come up withthe most complete and definitive canine family tree, NBC News reported. They’ve spent more than 20 years sampling the genes of 161 breeds of dog, sequencing them and comparing them to show how breeds were mixed and matched to make new breeds. The geneolgy also gives a rough tim...

About 11 percent of cats end up back in shelters because of allergies, according to the ASPCA. With 3.4 million cats in shelters across the country each year, that’s about 374,000 felines surrendered because of allergies. And that number doesn’t include cats dumped out on the street each day. There may be a lot of confusion, and misinformation, abo...

Senior pets are adopted at lower rates than younger animals — but for many adopters, a senior pet may fit their lifestyle better.