At a Virginia breeding facility where they were raised as test animals for medical researchers, thousands of beagles suffered horrific conditions for years. Now that it’s being shut down and the dogs are available for adoption, new concerns have been raised regarding the ethics of animal testing. Investigative reporting by Veronica Balderas Iglesias for VOA
A dog changed the life of a lawyer and helped thousands of others.A Special Report
Heather Angus, a COVID-19 patient care nurse in New York City, lost her dog and sought help on social media. Hundreds of New Yorkers rallied, and the puppy was quickly returned to its owner
Botswana’s neighbor, Zimbabwe, recorded its first mysterious deaths last week, with the loss of at least 11 elephants. Wildlife authorities there say the cause appears to be a bacterial infection
When Ukrainian soldiers found a stray dog during their war with Russia-backed separatists, they took him in and called him Corporal. He’s since become a wounded war veteran after surviving a land mine explosion
Guide dogs are trusted companions for the blind. Mike O’Sullivan reports that the dogs are carefully screened and trained and become important partners for people with visual impairments or other disabilities
A man with a big heart saves little dogs and turn his palatial house to dog rescue center
Winters are always tough on stray animals in most parts of the world. In the eastern Turkish city of Van, where subzero temperatures are the norms for winter, it is especially hard on helpless stray cats and dogs
In the U.S. more than 3 million shelter animals are adopted every year. But if you can’t find the animal you’ve been waiting for at your local shelter locally, or even nationally, you can look even farther afield. Svetlana Prudovskaya met with the people who make these little miracles happen
When a flier’s overweight cat was refused by a Russian airline, he hatched what he thought would be a purr-fect plan using a feline double