PETS & ANIMALS

At a special ceremony Wednesday, fellow service members saluted “Hero,” a military working dog who was retiring from Naval Station Mayport after 47 "dog years" of service.

Eighty-seven point three percent of Americans were reported as happier than the average person because of owning a pet. Our pets may be connected deeper to us than we will ever know.

Florida Sen. Lauren Book filed a bill intended to protect animals, and the legislation included a proposal that would make it illegal to let a dog stick its head out of a window of a moving car. But after getting feedback on that proposal, Book reportedly plans to amend the bill and remove that ban from the legislation.

Adoption fees will be waived this weekend during Animal Care & Protective Services' two-day adoption event at PetSmart on Monument Road.

Pets can be a common gift around the holiday season, but is a new cat or dog the culprit behind your sneezing?

The Jacksonville Humane Society is offering free pet adoptions from Dec. 31 to Jan. 1.

An Orange County pet store has been ordered to pay $85,000 to consumers after the Florida attorney general’s office said customers were deceived and sold sick or dying puppies, News4JAX sister station WKMG-TV News 6 reports.

From white squirrels and poisoned puppies to a Jacksonville serial killer and local entrepreneurs, our News4JAX.com team worked hard this year to showcase a variety of special content for our online audience.

Citing a database of over a million pet parents, Rover came up with a list of the top dog and cat names of 2022.

Nicholas Dawson was reunited with his dog, Isis, in Jacksonville after she disappeared from her Fayetteville home back in March of 2020.

Temperatures are expected to dip below freezing and potentially stay there for hours.

Scammers will target just about anything these days, and if you are looking to add a four-legged friend to your family this holiday season: beware.

Jacksonville made the list of the top 50 cities in the U.S. to be a dog owner, according to a study from U.S. News & World Report.

Two Alabama women are preparing to stand trial in a city court where they're accused of committing misdemeanor violations by feeding and trapping stray cats.

Over 100 dogs at Jacksonville’s Animal Care and Protective Services (ACPS) shelter are still under quarantine Friday after one dog tested positive for pneumovirus, which is a highly contagious respiratory virus.

One dog has tested positive for pneumovirus at Jacksonville's Animal Care and Protective Services shelter. The last time this virus was identified in a dog at the shelter was in 2020.

The Jacksonville Humane Society (JHS) and Best Friends Animal Society, a leading national animal welfare organization working to save the lives of cats and dogs in America’s shelters by 2025, are teaming up for another adoption campaign to encourage people to adopt a new best friend.

Clay County Animal Services is teaming up with Dr. Seuss Enterprises and the Petfinder Foundation this holiday season to help long-term shelter dogs in Clay County find their forever homes.

The pet adoption fee will be waived at both the Jacksonville Humane Society and Animal Care and Protective Services this weekend.

The city of Jacksonville’s Animal Care and Protective Services will host a free dog adoption event Saturday at the Legends Center.