Heinrich Heine’s ominous line, “Those who burn books will in the end burn people,” is one of the most quoted in modern ...

Animal rescues and welfare organizations work to make a “pawsitive” difference in the lives of dogs and cats.

LOS ANGELES - Staycee Dains has resigned as general manager of Los Angeles Animal Services after being on paid leave since ...

After a tumultuous stint characterized by shelter overcrowding and high euthanasia rates, Staycee Dains, the General Manager ...

Weeks after the death of Peanut the squirrel, why do so many people still care − and what motivates people to keep wild ...

In the first 10 months of this year, LCDAS euthanized 393 dogs, according to its public database. That's on top of the ...

Police are searching for the person or persons responsible for throwing a dog out of a moving car at a busy intersection in ...

Staycee Dains, head of L.A. Animal Services, had been on leave since August. Officials declined to explain why, leading to ...

Megan Mannarelli took in Hot Pocket the kitten after a shelter sent out a "rescue plea before his euthanasia deadline," she ...

There are two aspects: euthanasia and assisted suicide. The term euthanasia is applied to the circumstance where a doctor deliberately gives a patient a drug overdose or a drug they did not need ...

The ashes of a big-eyed, brown and white puppy named Lisa that died last week in a plane crash in New York’s Catskill ...

A shelter puppy has been left "sad, confused and lonely" after being adopted and then returned in the most heartbreaking of ...