Caring for Pets Stories

Hudson Valley Humane helps beagles rescued from life as test subjects in a laboratory embark on a new life as beloved family pets.

Should you take your pet on vacation? Is traveling with a pet feasible? Here are tips for traveling with dogs and cats via car or airplane.

Family's volunteer trip inspires them to get church youth group together to make more parrot foraging toys to provide enrichment for birds.

One woman's trip to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary set the course for her life. She adopted a horse and now devotes her life to horses.

Adoptable pigs are winning people's hearts. One pig was adopted after her first sleepover, and another charming pig will likely be adopted very soon.

Lovebird with splayed legs who was abandoned in Las Vegas is rescued and is now receiving the medical treatment she needs.

Rabbit caregiver researches how rabbits live in the wild and then comes up with an innovative idea: Hay bungalows! The bunnies love them.

Long Beach City College in California tries trap neuter return to control the feral rabbit population on campus. It's the first TNR rabbit program.

Cockatoos and other birds at Best Friends get a new all-weather aviary that has many fun activities for them to do, like chewing on wood.

Horse with severe food allergies gets a special diet. A sign was posted telling visitors not to feed him, but he ate the sign!

Best Friends volunteer, who is battling breast cancer, and Sanctuary cat, who has lymphoma, make special connection. Both are in remission now.

Rabbit found abandoned and running along a highway was rescued and is now at Best Friends. He is hoping for some love this Valentine's Day.

Curly has become the latest Vicktory dog to live in the manager's office at Dogtown, which will help with his socialization and rehabilitation.

Two horses with knee issues have trouble making friends with other horses at the Sanctuary but have now become each other's best friend.

Bad dogs? A feature article about the Vicktory dogs (former Michael Vick fighting pit bull dogs) runs in Parade magazine and sets the record straight.