Pets

Iowa dog shelters are at their highest capacity in more than five years.

Pets can have many positive effects on your well being, except for when it's bedtime.

Iowa pet clinics are having trouble recruiting enough vets. Meanwhile, many households took in new pets during the pandemic.

The groups that rescued 514 dogs from a licensed breeder in Iowa say current policies made it difficult to get the dogs to safety sooner.

A surge in pet adoptions has increased demand for dogs imported from around the world. Most are fine, but federal officials turned up 450 dogs in 2020 with false records — 50% more than in 2019.

Many animal shelters say they have too many cats and dogs in need of homes. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Cornell University's Elizabeth Berliner what's behind the complaints.

Pet adoptions spiked when more people started working from home. Now that the pandemic is subsiding, some national trends found these “pandemic pets” were returning to shelters. But that’s not the case in Iowa.

Host Charity Nebbe speaks with pet experts about the pandemic pet boom over the last year.

Host Charity Nebbe speaks with pet experts about the pandemic pet boom over the last year.

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