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Thousands of dogs have been rescued from a Wisconsin-based breeding and research facility by a Palm Beach County dog rescue organization. Some of those rescued dogs took-off in style from Palm Beach International Airport on Friday to be adopted in New York.

A Wisconsin beagle research facility that’s drawn animal welfare protests is closing and its remaining dogs are being taken in by a Florida rescue group. Big Dog Ranch Rescue announced Monday that it has reached an agreement for the permanent closure of Ridglan Farms and the transfer of its 475 remaining beagles starting this week. The rescue group said some of the beagles will be sent to its Florida and Alabama campuses where they will be spayed, neutered, and prepared for adoption. The group acquired more than 2,000 of the facility’s beagles in April. The dog breeding and research business said all the dogs being transferred are “happy, healthy animals.”

The governor has tasked the legislature with putting more protections in place for puppies and dogs when it comes to different animal abuses.

The Florida prosecutor's office in Tampa is defending its controversial and unexpected decision to drop a felony criminal case against the man accused of tying his bull terrier dog to a fence in rising waters and abandoning it along I-75 amid an evacuation ahead of a major hurricane.

Oakland Park’s 18th annual Dachshund Dash has the dogs race during the city’s Oktoberfest celebration.

Dogs would not be able to hang their heads out of car windows under a new bill proposed in Florida. The bill would additionally ban cat declawing and cosmetic animal testing.

The pandemic led to global supply snarls — including a shortage of dogs that detect explosives. One big reason is that the U.S. gets the vast majority of its dogs from other countries.

Eclipse, the Seattle dog known for riding a bus herself since 2015, died on Friday. Her habit began when her owner was finishing his cigarette and she hopped the bus to the dog park without him.

A new study says that dogs produce emotional tears similar to how humans do. But not everyone in the veterinary community is convinced.

A Russian woman living in Burgundy wanted to help pet dogs of Ukraine and their human companions get to safety. She turned to a Facebook group for lovers of a famous dog breed to find them.

A new study based on thousands of DNA sequences and owner surveys finds that less than 10% of a dog's behavior — like howling, herding or retrieving — can be explained by its breed.

For the past couple of months, a virus has afflicted many dogs in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties.