PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- This week, 6abc's Shelter Me spotlighted Forever Home Animal Rescue, a foster-based rescue in Spring City, Chester County. Rhetta is just 7 months old and has been at the ...

With all the popular purebred dogs we see around us on a regular basis, some people assume they want their next pet to be one of these breeds. They want something familiar — a specific look or trait ...

The word "mutt" has some negative connotations, but National Mutt Day, happening this Saturday, pushes those aside and celebrates these lovable pups. This unofficial holiday falls on July 31 and ...

When the Westminster Kennel Club dog show added an agility competition a decade ago, it opened U.S. dogdom's most elite door to mixed breeds for the first time since the late 1800s. But purebreds won ...

Orion has done well with other doggie friends at the shelter, please bring any other dogs in your home out to meet him. He ...

Pet care can be costly. The ASPCA reports that pet owners can expect to pay around $1,400 a year on care for dogs and around $1,150 a year for cats — and that's just on average. One of the biggest ...

For decades pedigree dogs and cats have been prized for their looks, lineage and predictability. But when it comes to long ...

What if giving voice to the voiceless meant listening to them, before pretending to know what they would say? (Matt Margini, 2016, "What Is It Like to be an Elephant?") That dogs and other companion ...

Across the country there are dogs in shelters just waiting to be picked. Don't believe us? Take a look at poor Aspen, a current resident at the Providence Animal Center outside of Philadelphia, ...