Before You Adopt

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.

Bringing home a new family member is not as easy as falling in love and buying a crate. Take these tips into account from pet experts before and after bringing your new pet home.

An app designed to help you find the purr-fect pet to adopt is now even easier to use just in time for NBC and Telemundo’s annual Clear the Shelters initiative.

Pet insurance company Trupanion released a list of its top 10 dog names for 2020 based on its database of more than 500,000 insured pets. Some popular and even classic names continued to dominate the list this year, but some new contenders were also featured.

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.

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......