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CALGARY, ALBERTA – A police dog with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police picked up a discarded handgun and managed to fire it as officers in Calgary pursued two suspects, according to CBC News.Officers had been called to a grocery store in Chestermere after two men, one carrying a handgun, assaulted a third man, witnesses told […]

The mass cat and dog migration out of Texas started before Harvey even hit. The humane society of the United States, anticipating a deluge of lost and abandoned pets after the recent natural disaster, began coordinating flights of animals already in Texas shelters to other parts of the country. Eventually, they relocated hundreds of adoptable […]

family’s loyal basset hounds have refused to leave the side of a dying baby girl who suffered a major stroke.Nora Hall’s parents have taken the heartbreaking decision to turn off their five-month-old daughter’s life support after the stroke caused brain damage and left her in a medically-induced coma.Her mother Mary Hall wrote on Facebook: “My […]

The world’s oldest captive giant panda has died at the age of 37 – more than 100 years in human years.A zoo in China said on Thursday that the female bear, named Basi, died of ‘illnesses’ yesterday morning as they gave her an emotional send-off befitting a minor celebrity.The well-love animal was found as a […]

Authorities in south Florida may pursue felony charges against people who abandoned their animals as Hurricane Irma approached the Florida peninsula. Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control director Dianne Sauve said the agency recovered roughly 40 dogs in the days before Irma made landfall in Florida. Some were tied up, others were in pens or […]

As Florida residents prepare for Hurricane Irma, pet owners in the state will need to take extra precautions to help their animals.Aaron Johnson, director of the Montgomery County Animal Shelter in Conroe, Texas, was on the ground helping stranded animals to shelters after Hurricane Harvey struck the state last month. He advises Florida pet owners […]

A private plane crowded with kennels touched down at Oakland International Airport Sunday night. The flight was filled with 69 dogs and cats rescued from the rising floodwaters in Texas. “It was absolutely crazy. We decided we would get as many crates as we could,” said Sherri Franklin, founder and CEO of Muttville Senior Dog Rescue. The rescue […]

THE TIME HAS COME good Milo people – you are needed!! Muttville, Milo and Mad Dog Rescue are FLYING to Austin to pick up 40-60 dogs and perhaps cats and other small animals from AUSTIN PETS ALIVE (APA) on Sunday! We will need helping hands when the plane returns with it’s precious cargo on Sunday […]