As people struggle to keep pets, agencies step in to help

A number of agencies are stepping in to help people who have to give up their pets or to protect the animals from being euthanized.

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As people struggle to keep pets, agencies step in to help

Animal groups work to spay, neuter pets (Chronicle-Tribune)

Prime animal breeding season is just around the corner, and local animal control officials are starting up programs to help people get pets spayed or neutered.

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Animal groups work to spay, neuter pets (Chronicle-Tribune)

Toothbrushes, underwear — these pets ate them all (Rockford Register Star)

SPRINGFIELD — Not long after adopting a 6-month-old lab/German shepherd mix named Libby, Erin Truter of Springfield started noticing things were missing from her family’s home.

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Toothbrushes, underwear — these pets ate them all (Rockford Register Star)

Lee Schneider: What Our Pets Know That We Don’t (The Huffington Post)

We humans are learning that our pets are pretty smart creatures.

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Lee Schneider: What Our Pets Know That We Don’t (The Huffington Post)