ST. LOUIS (AP) — An eastern Missouri man already facing state charges of animal abuse is now facing federal charges, too.

A federal indictment announced Thursday charges 39-year-old ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Every state in America, and at least nine countries. That is how far the story of Tommie, a dog tied to a pole and set on fire, traveled as people rallied for his survival ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Authorities seized more than 30 dogs and a parrot from a home in Brown County.

Officials with the Wisconsin Humane Society Green Bay and Door County and law ...

PLANTATION, Fla. (AP) — All dogs may go to heaven, but not all dogs go to church.

Saint Benedict’s Episcopal Church in Plantation, Florida, has welcomed dogs to its Saturday service for ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A proposal making its way through the Washington state legislature would make it a felony to steal an animal for use as bait in a dog fight.

The Yakima ...

OLD LYME, Conn. (AP) — A veterinarian in Connecticut is warning pet owners to be careful after she treated two dogs for likely ingesting marijuana.

Kathy Clark of Clark Veterinary ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia teenager has been sentenced to six years in custody for shooting and wounding a police officer’s dog during a break-in at the officer’s ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia animal shelter is opening its doors to show what it’s doing with the money and items donated in honor of a dog that was set on fire.

WWBT-TV reports ...

BARNHART, Mo. (AP) — Court documents indicate a 39-year-old man who authorities say wrapped a small dog with tape and threw him in a ditch believed the animal was spying on him ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Transit says a train engineer has come to the rescue of a small dog that was on the tracks in northern New Jersey.

Anthony Guzuman saw the animal near ...

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has ruled that a dog owner isn’t fit to carry a firearms license after his dog shot him with a rifle.

The Munich administrative court on Tuesday dismissed the man’s appeal against an earlier decision by Bavarian authorities to withdraw his license to own a ...

CHETOPA, Kan. (AP) — An animal rescue group says it is housing 43 dogs that were found in three different properties in southeast Kansas.

KAKE-TV

SOUTH PARIS, Maine (AP) — A dog that went missing in Massachusetts months ago has been reunited with its family after being found in Maine, 175 miles (282 kilometers) away.

The Bangor Daily News

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Health officials in West Virginia say a raccoon that was killed by two dogs in the Cheat Lake area has tested positive for rabies.

The Dominion Post reports ...

NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — As the seventh-grade class at St. Francis de Sales shuffled into the computer lab and took seats on a recent Monday morning, teacher Annie Robrecht walked down the rows with her furry friend, Jaxson, close behind.

Students shot their hands out into the aisles to give ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police in Albuquerque say a man has been accused of extreme animal cruelty after the alleged beating of a dog.

According to court documents obtained by KOB-TV, Gabriel Salaz was watching the five-month-old puppy for friends so they could surprise their children on ...

MCDOWELL, Va. (AP) — A Virginia family is happy to be reunited with a furry friend after a weekend vacation turned into a not-so-relaxing search for the missing pet.

After the family realized their dog Duke was gone during a short trip near McDowell, they launched a three-day search that ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Humane Society of Missouri says dogs and cats have been rescued from filthy conditions at the same western Missouri site for the third time in eight years.

The society said in a news release that the owner on Friday voluntarily surrendered 21 dogs and 20 cats from a ...

WEST CHICAGO, Ill. (AP) — A kennel in suburban Chicago that took in troublesome dogs is being criticized after a fire on the property killed 31 animals, although the operation’s head trainer remains a hero to some.

Rescue groups often brought their most difficult animals to Bully Life ...

NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — A southwest Mississippi man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to the shooting death of at least one dog.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A man has been given probation and jail time for operating a western Iowa dog business where carcasses and dozens of malnourished dogs were found.

Pottawattamie County court records say 36-year-old Dustin Young was sentenced Wednesday in Council Bluffs to two ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Officials at a Virginia shelter say a dog set on fire at a Richmond park has succumbed to his wounds.

News outlets report Richmond Animal Care and Control announced Friday morning that the male brindle pit bull named Tommie died surrounded by caregivers. The shelter ...

BARNHART, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri man faces charges accusing him of binding a dog’s legs and mouth with tape and throwing the animal into a ditch, where it was found 12 hours later in bitter cold.

Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak on Thursday announced the arrest and charges ...

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit animal control agency is asking the public for help after rescuing 53 dogs from being hoarded.

Macomb County Animal Control says the dogs were seized Wednesday while a Sterling Heights man was loading them into a moving van to take them to ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Officials at a Virginia animal shelter say “recovery may not be an option” for a dog found set on fire.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch

DEDHAM, Maine (AP) — Officials say a Maine man escaped from a burning house only to die when he went back inside to try to save his dog.

The State Fire Marshal’s Office says the body of 76-year-old Jerry Bishop was found Wednesday near a door inside the log cabin in Dedham.

Officials ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — The former president of a Connecticut dog rescue organization charged with starving five dogs to death has pleaded not guilty to animal cruelty charges.

The Connecticut Post

MUNCY, Pa. (AP) — A woman who survived a bear attack outside her Pennsylvania home has left the hospital and says she feels lucky to have survived.

“I shouldn’t even be here,” Melinda LeBarron told ...

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire couple honored as a “Breeder of the Year” by the American Kennel Club faces an animal cruelty charge.

Police in Durham say 18 cocker spaniels were seized from owners Bonnie and Wilson Pike, of Durham. Deputy Police Chief Rene Kelley

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A dog rescued from the cold last week in St. Louis County has been euthanized, angering the leader of the rescue group that saved her.

Faust, a 6-year-old pit bull, was found by a letter carrier during a bitter cold snap. The group Stray Rescue began posting updates ...

FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — A man accused of leaving a young pit bull mix to drown in a cage at water’s edge in a rising tide last summer has been indicted on animal cruelty charges.

Aaron Davis is also charged with attempted animal cruelty in the indictment handed up by a Monmouth County grand ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The saying goes “a dog is man’s best friend” — and that’s exactly what Sen. Lionell Spruill said he wanted when he was a boy. When he couldn’t have a pet, he began to notice how some dogs in his neighborhood were mistreated — left out overnight and in extreme ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a woman was attacked and mauled by two pit bulls in a Florida neighborhood.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that the ...