Bethany Adams

Chances are, when you’re showing off a goofy photo of your pet, you don’t gush, “It’s such a good dog!” Such phrasing probably sounds wrong, as it should, when referring to the pets who (not ‘that!’) share your home and offer unconditional love.

“I have five kittens,” begins the email that recently landed in my inbox. “I was told that you would come and get them … they are feral cats but they are tame and are used to people.” Sound familiar? If you work at a shelter or volunteer with a

If you see a dog or cat running outside without an owner in sight, your first thought probably isn’t to question whether the animal is “stray” or “lost.” You likely aren’t thinking about the semantics of language in this moment, but rather what you

Robert Sotelo never intended to apply for a job with Pets for Life. In early 2012, the Los Angeles-based dog trainer and his wife, Julie, had recently welcomed their first child. Sotelo was working with local group Bark Avenue Foundation (now

Back in 2009, after Dr. Don Popa performed the 100,000th spay/neuter surgery of his career, the then-55-year-old told Animal Sheltering magazine, “I really want to complete at least another 100,000.”He wasn’t joking. Popa, who’s the spay/neuter

On June 11, I was dispatched for a call about a “three-legged cat” in a moving and storage company parking lot. When I arrived, I found a tiny kitten, no more than 6 weeks old, hiding under a dumpster. Once I caught her with the help of some

Before Michelle Kelly knew a Flemish Giant from a French Lop, she was living in a no-pets-allowed apartment in West Los Angeles, busy pursuing a doctorate degree in Russian literature and Slavic languages.

In middle school, when all his friends were obsessed with Star Wars, Kwane Stewart’s favorite movie was The Black Stallion. He’d always loved animals, and the story of a boy who befriends a wild stallion affected him so much that he vowed he was

When Sara White was an undergraduate student, she thought she might want to become a field researcher studying wildlife. “Then I learned that the people who do that spend all their time writing grants so they can hire college students to go out and

A powerhouse in the world of pet behavior, Victoria Stilwell is known for her humane, science-based approaches to dog training. For more than 20 years, she’s shared her positive-reinforcement methods in her TV show, It's Me or the Dog. She’s also

Garrett Parsons works at the intersection of human and animal welfare. As a service director and pet support supervisor at a Cincinnati homeless shelter, he helps ensure that people who lose their homes don’t also lose their pets—keeping families

Originally, Patrick McDonnell thought he needed a bad guy.A few months after he began drawing his syndicated comic strip MUTTS in 1994, McDonnell mulled creating “some bully in the neighborhood” whom the strip’s main characters, Earl the dog and

A lifelong animal lover who knew she “wasn’t meant to be a veterinarian,” Ashley Mauceri came to Humane World for Animals as a summer intern and soon after was hired to work on cruelty investigations.

After her cat returned home from an outdoor jaunt and died, the owner was certain that her neighbor was responsible.“He poisoned my cat,” she told veterinarian A. Michelle González, who often hears similar theories from people whose pets have died

Karen Little remembers a time when she and her husband, Hoyt, were “normal people” who were focused mainly on their careers, he as a banker and she as a music librarian. But then they moved from Virginia to Kentucky, where Little had accepted a

In early January, Darlene Duggan and seven of her co-workers had just completed a day of training at the ASPCA Behavioral Rehabilitation Center outside Asheville, North Carolina, when their phones began simultaneously pinging alerts.

To answer a multiple-choice question about what Jackson Galaxy does, your safest guess is probably “all of the above.”The celebrity animal advocate and feline behavior expert has worked in shelters and hosted and executive produced the long-running

Shelter and rescue folks know that traumatized dogs are more likely to excessively bark, show fearfulness on walks, react in an extreme way to noises, and display food and toy possessiveness and attention-seeking behavior. In the past, dogs