Pet care can be costly. The ASPCA reports that pet owners can expect to pay around $1,400 a year on care for dogs and around $1,150 a year for cats — and that's just on average. One of the biggest ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- This week, 6abc's Shelter Me spotlighted Forever Home Animal Rescue, a foster-based rescue in Spring City, Chester County. Rhetta is just 7 months old and has been at the ...

When the Westminster Kennel Club dog show added an agility competition a decade ago, it opened U.S. dogdom's most elite door to mixed breeds for the first time since the late 1800s. But purebreds won ...

With all the popular purebred dogs we see around us on a regular basis, some people assume they want their next pet to be one of these breeds. They want something familiar — a specific look or trait ...

Mixed-breed dogs have earned themselves quite the reputation over the years, but not all of it is accurate. Many people hold onto outdated beliefs about these lovable pups that simply don't match ...

What if giving voice to the voiceless meant listening to them, before pretending to know what they would say? (Matt Margini, 2016, "What Is It Like to be an Elephant?") That dogs and other companion ...

Ruby, a 3-and-a-half-year-old mixed breed dog, is our Pet of the Week. Snake River Animal Shelter operations manager Romi Weaver says Ruby is well-behaved around other dogs. She is potty-trained and ...