Adoption

A canine of unusual size has taken up residence at a Sacramento, Calif., animal shelter, impressing and baffling the facility's employees, according to KTXL-TV. "Somebody is missing a ginormous dog," said Gina Knepp, manager at the Front Street Animal Shelter, of the 120-pound pooch. The dog's breed remains a mystery, although the shelter's best guess is that he is a Husky mix. "The jury is out," Knepp said. "Could he be part wolf? Maybe. He could be a lot of combinations of things. We won't know for sure unless we do a DNA test, which we are not going to do here." Almost everything else about the imposing dog is also unknown. He has no tags, no microchip, no tattoos or other ...

According to The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, three dogs were found and removed on Tuesday from the same house from which Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight and Amanda Berry were rescued. The three dogs, a Chihuahua and two Terrier-Shih Tzu mixes, will be fostered by Dogs Unlimited Rescue until DeJesus, Knight or Berry decide to recover their pets. The Chihuahua was with Ariel Castro when police arrested him on May 6. The other two dogs were inside the home. Despite the harsh living conditions in which the women had to live, the dogs were ...

Evidence shows that puppies purchased from pet stores are more likely to display behavioral problems later in life, according to a groundbreaking University of Pennsylvania study. Frank McMillan, director of well-being studies at the Best Friends Animal Society in Utah and a co-author of the paper, told the Penn Current that he was curious about behavioral problems in pet-store puppies after a similar study two years ago that focused on puppies from commercial breeding facilities. Most puppies in pet stores are from these puppy mills. McMillan said the results of the study are grim. "The problems span so many different types of behaviors, and the differences are rather extreme for some of ...