Saturday at Market Square Park

Grab some good "green" fun at Sustainable Living Fest at Market Square Park

By Barbara Kuntz

05.04.12 | 3:40 pm

Celebrate a “green” family day Saturday at the free Sustainable Living Fest as the organization plants its roots in a beautiful and most-fitting venue, Market Square Park. You&rsqu ...

Introducing the Merry Adoptable Dozen

Abandoned in a kennel for years, these dozen animals need a permanent home for the holidays

By Cynthia Neely

12.05.11 | 9:30 am

One couple is fluffy, white, and pet calendar gorgeous! You’d think this cat sister and brother named “Snow” and “Flake” would be shoo-ins for adoption. People should ...

Citizens for Animal Protection's Tour for Life Adopt-A-Thon

04.10.11

Tour for Life is a cooperative national adoption initiative aimed at reinforcing the importance of adopting pets from shelters and making the public aware that shelter dogs and cats are wonderful l

Even makes shelter workers cry

When you're dying and your dogs cannot stand the heartbreak of being split apart

By Fayza A. Elmostehi

01.06.11 | 3:49 pm

You've heard the story before. Animal lover, unable to keep a pair of pets for whatever reason, tearfully relinquishes said domestic companions to a shelter. And then these precious pets, u ...

It's ruff out there

Don't bite the BARC: Animal shelter hopes blessing bonanza fixes overcrowding

By Fayza A. Elmostehi

10.29.10 | 1:45 pm

Let's face it — the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care (BARC, if brevity is your thing) isn't always exactly viewed as one of the good guys in the otherwise warm and fuzzy realm of ...

All Dogs Go to Heaven

Burnie, Baby, Burnie: A personal remembrance of Houston's top dog

By Fayza A. Elmostehi

05.24.10 | 11:19 am

In their short lifetimes, dogs and cats are offered the opportunity to be one of two things in their roles as pets. Sometimes, a pet is simply a tamed animal that occupies the spaces that don't ...