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Puppy beats distemper with the help of two determined foster moms
Felix had a ticket to ride from Houston to Ruff Start Rescue in Minnesota, but when distemper postponed his plans, a team came together to help him get healthy again.
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Big love for Texas pets during the COVID-19 outbreak
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of dogs and cats from Texas shelters find homes in new states including Minnesota, Colorado and Illinois.
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Grants helping Houston pet families during the COVID-19 pandemic will continue
The Friends For Life wellness clinic and food bank helping pets during the COVID-19 pandemic has been so successful that the shelter plans to keep it going.
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Meet a couple of best friends on a mission to help homeless pets together
When friends Marylin Sharp and Bobbie Oldfield aren't driving pets to new homes, you can find them volunteering together at Best Friends in Houston
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Adoption PSA helps 1,500 Houston pets go home
How Houston-area shelters, Best Friends and a local news station got creative and worked together to help pets get adopted like never before.
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15 quarantine foster pet stories
Check out these adorable pets who got to move out of shelters and in with foster families as people quarantine at home across the country
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From the streets to warm sheets: A pit bull’s journey home
It took a while to find a new home for Samwell, a young dog with a lot of energy in a Houston shelter, but his new family loves everything about him
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Karma finally smiles on a high-energy, fun-loving pit bull terrier mix with a tough past
Once homeless in Houston, a high-energy, fun-loving pit bull terrier mix with a tough past finds a home with amazing family of four
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Scruffy pup goes from scared and broken in an overcrowded shelter to healing on a hammock
Scruffy terrier with broken femur has surgery to place four pins in her leg. She's feeling a lot better and more confident, and ready for adoption.
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Shelters across the country step up to help pet transports, provide critical overnight stays
Moving animals from one shelter to another where they are more likely to get adopted, pet transports get an overnight rest at shelters around country.
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Even though the sign read "Everybody looks, but nobody stops," a 70-pound heartworm-positive Lab mix finally goes home
Even though it didn't seem like a great fit initially, yellow Lab mix, who is 70 pounds and heartworm-positive, is adopted into the perfect home.
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Heavily pregnant dog was almost out of time in a shelter, but a tiny rescue group stepped in to save her
Bottle Pups and Mama Dog Rescue in Moab, Utah, steps up to save a heavily pregnant dog and her nine soon-to-be-born puppies.
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Kitten with rare and serious lung condition is thriving thanks to adopter’s persistence and unconditional love
Kitten with rare condition - a nonfunctioning left lung lobe - has a lobectomy to remove it. Now recovered from the risky surgery, he is thriving.
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Parvo nearly took this puppy’s life, but the county shelter stepped in to save her
A puppy sick with parvo disease, a contagious viral infection, is brought to the Harris County Animal Shelter, where she receives the help she needs.
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Man proposes to girlfriend surrounded by hundreds of adoptable pets
Two animal-loving volunteers get engaged at the recent Best Friends Super Adoption in Houston and are now happily planning their wedding.
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