Since I started researching and writing my book The Last Walk, about end-of-life care for animals, I have taken every opportunity to talk to people about their experiences and hear their stories about ...

Six-week-old Piper, a boxer-pitbull mix, first came to foster parent Sandy Caplinger underage and underweight. Caplinger has fostered animals for the last decade to relieve shelter overcrowding and ...

Approximately 920,000 to 2.7 million animals are euthanized annually in U.S. shelters. The concept of shelters euthanizing animals is a difficult and controversial topic. Some people think that ...

The other day, Alaqua Animal Refuge’s (AAR) phone beeped with a message that instantly halted everything.

When it comes to the law, words like “humanely” and “geriatric” are loadedso loaded that North Carolina’s proposed euthanasia rules have become snagged in semantics, languishing for more than a year.

Although people may balk at the idea of comparing the killing of animals in shelters to the execution of human prisoners, some legal activists believe this is just what we need to do. Indeed, our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Multnomah County Animal Services’ updated euthanasia policy has sparked concerns among community members ...

A stark rise in the number of stray dogs being euthanized across the UK and the Republic of Ireland, with rates more than tripling over a three-year period, are revealed in a new collaborative study.

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Leaders of Austin’s Animal Services Office, or ASO, continue to work through updates to how the city notifies its partners, and the public, about animals at risk of euthanasia, ...