Pets

Feeding pets can be expensive. The Loudoun Hunger Relief pet pantry is helping keep pets in their loving homes by giving families pet food. News4’s Molette Green talks with their CEO on why it relieves stress off of pet owners. 

Christmas is creeping closer, and a Northern Virginia animal shelter is asking for help this holiday season. The Animal Welfare League of Arlington is renovating part of its facility, and they need to find foster homes for several animals over the next few weeks. “We’re hoping that as many people as possible can help us get animals home for...

The Animal Welfare League of Arlington is renovating part of its facility, and they need to find foster homes for several animals over the next few weeks. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

Kirk Rumford’s beloved husky Odin was killed by a Northbridge animal control officer investigating a report of a coyote in the area.

An American foxhound from Georgetown named George is competing in the National Dog Show. News4’s Tommy McFly met George and sat down with his handler and owner.

An 18-year-old accused of stealing a family’s puppy off a boat docked in Navy Yard was arrested Thursday, authorities say.

A new bill making its way through New York City Council would take away at least one major stress for pet owners living in the city. The just-introduced legislation would allow people to use their own paid sick time to take of their pets when necessary.

A 3-month-old puppy named Pepper has been reunited with her family after she was stolen off of a boat docked in Navy Yard. The puppy is in good condition, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. On Saturday, a good Samaritan returned Pepper to the family after purchasing the Cane Corso puppy from an online ad before realizing she had been…

A puppy who was stolen from a boat in Navy Yard was reunited with her family. 

The search is on for a puppy allegedly taken from a pet store in Northern Virginia. It happened this week at the XO Pups store in Chantilly. Fairfax County Police are reviewing surveillance video after the store owner reported a 10-week-old Maltipoo stolen. The owner of the store, Ayman Koshok, says lots of people come into the store to admire…

Surveillance cameras caught a duo stealing a 10-week-old puppy from a Northern Virginia pet store. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

The search is on for a beloved family pet stolen from a boat moored near a restaurant in D.C.’s Navy Yard neighborhood last Friday evening. “Couldn’t believe that somebody would do that and that she was gone.” Edward Matthews is talking about Pepper, the nine-month-old female Cane Corso, a breed of Italian mastiff, stolen from his boat Friday night....

A father is asking for information about the whereabouts of his family’s puppy, who was stolen from a boat in Navy Yard. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

Dog owners who like to wear Crocs can now match with their pups on walks and trips to the park.

Crocs announced Wednesday the launch of their first-ever line of shoes for dogs — in collaboration with BARK.

Benny and Susanne Anguiano are looking for clues as to how their cat Rayne Beau made it all the way from Yellowstone National Park to Roseville, California.

The Humane Rescue Alliance is trying to find the person who shot Louisa, a sweet brown and white pit-type dog well-known and well-liked by people in her D.C. neighborhood, who has miraculously survived a gunshot to her head. An X-ray shows the bullet that entered her head, grazed her tongue, traveled through her throat and ended up in her...

The Humane Rescue Alliance is trying to find the person who shot a well-liked dog in a Southeast D.C. neighborhood. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

New details have emerged regarding the investigation into three dogs who died shortly after staying at a PetSmart animal boarding facility in Alexandria. News4 has previously reported that prosecutors are not filing any criminal charges against PetSmart employees, but an attorney for the pet owners argued that while the employees may not have been responsible for the deaths, the attorneys…

News4 obtained investigation notes in the death of a dog being boarded at the facility. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.