Nita Hemeter remembers the barking and meowing, and being able to look up from the middle of a New Orleans darkened by power outages to see "every star in the sky." It was early September 2005, a ...

Minnesota animal shelters and pet rescues have kept their own tally of the cost of Operation Metro Surge. A little dog, found shivering in an abandoned car a month after his owner disappeared. A cat ...

Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was not only a human tragedy but an unprecedented crisis for thousands of pets left behind in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The storm’s sudden devastation revealed the ...