A senior dog, nine years of age, is growing increasingly depressed behind the bars of her kennel run at a busy California animal shelter. Muneca, a Cairn terrier, has been at the Carson Animal Serv…

A three-month-old puppy, with a mangled leg and her bone exposed, was rushed to an emergency veterinarian hospital on Friday evening in Austin, Texas. Animal Control had been called to the owner’s …

In Des Moines, Iowa, a teenager has been charged with animal abuse after authorities claim a young dog’s muzzle had been wrapped so tightly with an electrical cord, his face swelled to “four times …

“My dog found a kitten, brought it home and now thinks it’s her baby”

Kristy and Shea adopted Maggie, the Basset Hound, from a shelter in April. Kristy told DogHeirs that, “She’s my first do…

This story proves that cats have nine lives.

The temperature in Kalispell, Montana was just ten degrees above zero when an unresponsive cat was found “essentially frozen” in the snow outside her…

Harris County Animal Cruelty Investigators received a call from a concerned citizen that witnessed eight puppies being thrown from a car window. Animal Cruelty Investigator Michael Allan rushed to …

Every once in a while we are able to witness an act so selfless or brave it makes us stop and stare with our jaws dropped.

Such was the case for those who watched in person with bated breath, st…

Rocky Kanaka decided to do something to help Marley’s Mutts, a dog rescue that takes in the dogs who are often left behind by other groups: the broken, the neglected, and the forgotten. So he arriv…

Local residents in India found eight puppies coated in thick, toxic tar and notified the Humane Society. HSI received the distressing rescue call and rushed to the scene immediately. The tar had ha…

A Cleveland, Tennessee, dog trainer, arrested earlier this week for animal cruelty, committed suicide on Thursday afternoon. As reported by the Cleveland Banner, Stephen Kinder, owner of Kinder Dog…

This week, a clever pit bull in Tuckahoe, New York, managed to save her owner from a potentially deadly gas leak. As reported by CBS New York, Sadie broke out of her house on Wednesday and went run…

On Thursday afternoon, four innocent 4-month-old puppies from an Ohio backyard breeder, were finally surrendered. If only the story of these little ones was as simple as a breeder having been o…