DART (Duplin Animal Shelter) says people who adopt have to sign a contract stating the person adopting the animal must take it to the vet within 48 hours and Candace acknowledges she didn’t do that.

The summer months can be a great time to let your dog run free in the great outdoors, yet that situation can be hazardous to you and your pet’s health if he picks up a tick carrying lyme disease.

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In response to “Adopting a dog is expensive” (Letters, April 28.) If a person can’t afford to adopt a dog from the shelter, how are they going to pay for annual vet exams and vaccinations? To spay or neuter their dog? For emergency treatments? Obedience classes, while extremely affordable, do cost. How about heartworm medicine [...]

The devastating and shadowy malady that is claiming the lives of greyhounds at Revere’s Wonderland racetrack may have even deadlier.
The federal government’s top scientists are exploring whether a deadly dog flu that has ripped through greyhound tracks across the country - and is suspected in Massachusetts - could leap to humans. The strain of [...]

Starting in July, consumers will have access to information on how many pets traveling in the baggage holds of U.S. commercial aircraft are killed, lost or injured while in each airline’s care. The new Department of Transportation policy requires U.S. carriers to start reporting such incidents by May 15, and reports will begin appearing in [...]

Furry “pocket pets” like hamsters, mice and rats have sickened up to 30 people in at least 10 states, including Illinois, with dangerous multidrug-resistant bacteria, health officials warn.
The multistate salmonella outbreak during 2004 was linked with exposure to rodents (e.g., hamsters, mice, and rats) purchased at pet stores, accoding to CDC report released on [...]

State lawmakers Tuesday turned away a bill that could have brought a first-in-the-nation ban on pet cloning.
The 4-2 vote against the bill with four abstentions by members of Assembly Business and Professions Committee on AB1428 by Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, D-Van Nuys, came after a brief discussion that touched on everything from free enterprise to mad [...]