Pets

After 120 Milwaukee area cats were surrendered in one day — including 47 from a single home — the Wisconsin Humane Society is urging animal lovers to consider adopting or fostering a new pet. 

All of us need exercise — even our dogs. Without it, our canine friends can be unhealthy, misbehaved or just bored. The dog park may be just what your pup needs. But what do you need to know before heading to the dog park?

For seven years, 82-year-old retiree Terry Lauerman has been donating his time to Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary. His specialty? Lying down and taking a snooze with the shelter’s special-needs cats.

Animal shelters and rescues across Wisconsin have experienced a recent uptick in people giving up, or surrendering, their pets.

K9 Konvoy owner Hope Mehlberg picks up her furry customers from their homes, and takes packs of more than 20 at a time to go run themselves ragged for two hours.

A town chair in Dodge County is facing a felony animal abuse charge following allegations that he strangled a stray dog to death.

When Elias Weiss Friedman recently spoke with WPR’s “BETA,” he reflected on his own childhood dog, talked about approaching dogs and their people on the street, and wondered what that world might be like if dogs were in charge.

Two suppliers of aquatic creatures were recently convicted for ignoring warnings from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and selling illegal crayfish species to Wisconsinites, the department announced today. 

Wolves and dogs share many similarities. However, there are a few important differences in the way they interact with humans, Patricia McConnell, an applied animal behaviorist who’s worked with and studied dogs for more than 25 years, said on “The Larry Meiller Show.”

Veterinarian Angie Ruppel joined WPR’s “The Larry Meiller Show” to answer questions about getting cats spayed or neutered.