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Pet insurance company Trupanion released a list of its top 10 dog names for 2020 based on its database of more than 500,000 insured pets. Some popular and even classic names continued to dominate the list this year, but some new contenders were also featured.

An 11-year-old dog had spent his whole life on a chain, eating the family’s leftovers. This woman saw him and started visiting him three times a day. He was always so excited to see her — and six months in, his family agreed she could take him. Now he’s found a forever family!

Wondering the best way to make sure your dog is potty trained? Well, it takes a lot of work. Here are some steps you can take to make potty training with your pup go smoother.

Store-bought dog toys are great, but buying all those toys can start to add up. Here are three easy and inexpensive ways to make toys at home that your dog is sure to love.

Poor pup! Kona had an encounter with a porcupine earlier this week that ended with a painful recovery. The Veterinary Emergency Center of Canton, Connecticut warns that porcupines are native to that area. A porcupine’s quills are barbed on one end and require veterinary help to be removed, the vet advised. The veterinary hospital said Kona was put under...

Radio and talk show host Andy Cohen shared on Instagram Friday afternoon that he had re-homed his rescue dog, Wacha.

As millions of Americans practice social distancing amid the Coronavirus, one winery decided to get creative when it came to delivering drinks to customers.

Every year, approximately 6.5 million companion animals enter U.S. animal shelters nationwide, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Of those, nearly 1.5 million cats and dogs are euthanized due to overcrowding in shelters and another 2.3 million are adopted into forever homes. Click on the pets below to read their heartwarming adoption success stories...

Kyle Clark, a news anchor in Denver, made an impassioned apology to a furry member of the Denver community during a recent broadcast. He heard a dog crying loudly in a locked car on a 90-degree day. When Clark confronted the dog’s owner, the person did not seem to care.

Louisiana mom Hallie Mallet caught a young boy on her surveillance camera running into her garage to give her dog, Dutchess, a quick hug before sprinting away. Mallet took to Facebook to ask her neighbors for their help in identifying the drive-by hugger. The boy’s mom recognized him from the post and he has been invited to play with Dutchess...

For the abandoned dogs at Carson Animal Shelter, every day is an agonizing wait for somebody to come and take them home.

Charlie is a blind, 11-year-old golden retriever who has turned his new puppy companion into his own tiny “seeing-eye” dog. Charlie and Maverick are two golden retrievers that are taking social media by storm with their story — a 4-month-old puppy helping a blind dog “see” again.

A San Diego County animal center is hoping a family will adopt furry friends Ami and Mikaela together.

The most important thing to know about training your new pup, according to Petco dog trainer Chloe Sternlicht, is that dogs respond best to positive reinforcement. So be patient when Fido makes a mistake and smother him with praise and treats when he get it right. Sternlicht gives some tips for getting your dog to respond to basic commands.

A pit bull named Pirate was out of the shelter Tuesday after the story went viral of a 6-year-old boy with autism reading to him.

Two police officers shot and killed a pit bull dog that ran toward them after its owner released the animal during a traffic stop in northern New Jersey, authorities said. The shooting culminated a series of events that began Monday when Wanaque police tried to stop a tractor-trailer that was being driven erratically by John Baker, 54, of Spring Lake,…

Authorities say a North Carolina man stole and beat a dog named Tigger, stabbed it to death and used a chain saw to cut it in half

A neighbor’s dog was shot and killed after two strangers tried to force their way into a Bronx home, the rattled victim told NBC New York