KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Seven dog tracks halted racing across the country last year, forcing hundreds of greyhounds into an uncertain future. With fewer tracks available for them to race, the sleek long-limbed dogs are now flooding the adoption market at a difficult time. Economic hardships are preventing many dog lovers from adopting, or worse, forcing ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Workers at the Lawrence Humane Society have started carrying concealed guns to work, and they say it’s for a very good reason. “We have to protect not only our staff and the animals, but other people that come here,” said Midge Grinstead, executive director of the animal shelter. The shelter may be most ...

Contact can lessen loneliness. Contact can lessen depression. Contact can bring a smile.  And that point of contact can be a pet.  An elderly person paired with an appropriate pet can be a winning combination. “Humans and animals need love, companionship and activity,” explained Ms. Kit Darling, MS, infection control coordinator at Texas A&M College of ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — You don’t have to be a crazy cat lady to have more than one cat at a time — and Army Spc. Nathan Davis wrote the essay to prove it. Davis’ essay about a day with his cats, Cmdr. Frank Sinatra and Sgt. Snog, won a contest to debunk stereotypes of “crazy ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dave Sharpe was troubled by thoughts he couldn’t share after he returned from serving in Iraq. “I found myself waking up in the middle of the night, punching holes in walls, kicking and beating the refrigerator door,” he said. Then one day, the former Air Force senior airman went with a friend to ...