Field notes, transport diaries, and adoption stories from our partners across the country. Updated every Friday by the people on the ground.
What we found when we drove into Letcher County after the floodwaters receded — and the bus driver who refused to leave without them.
They aren't strays. They aren't pets. They are something stranger and more wonderful — and our partner shelter in Bushwick keeps a list of every single one.
Eleven dogs, three volunteer drivers, one diesel van, and four overnight stops at strangers' houses who left the porch light on.
A conversation with Carmen Ortiz about the gray-muzzle math no one wants to do — and the families who keep showing up anyway.
How a bush pilot, a tribal council, and a winter storm rerouted thirty-four sled-dog puppies into homes in Washington and Oregon.
Forty cats live in the courtyard of a 200-year-old church in the French Quarter. The nuns feed them. We TNR them. Everyone is doing their best.