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Winnebago County Animal Services (WCAS) wants you to know that they're looking for foster homes for their animals to help them keep the shelter population down.

If you're not a pet owner, you may not know anything about heartworms in pets. If you are, you should know how serious it can be.

Winnebago County Animal Services (WCAS) says they have 40 dogs that need to be adopted before they can begin work on new kennels.

Despite near-constant warnings and advisories about not leaving dogs and cats to suffer in extreme heat or cold, it still happens with alarming frequency.

Winnebago County Animal Services is joining up with 900 other shelters across the country on Saturday, August 18 for a nationwide pet adoption event.

Rockford's CARE for PETS is hosting a free pet health fair this Saturday for residents who qualify financially, and live in certain Rockford zip codes.

National Pet Day was last week but ask any dog or cat lover and they'll tell you every day is National Pet Day.

I've long been a fan of dedicated men and women who run and staff Winnebago County Animal Services (WCAS), and their latest offering/promotion is one of the many reasons why.

January 13 falls on a Friday this week. If you want to avoid having an unlucky day in Rockford, you should probably not visit any of these five places.

I just read a rather sobering statistic from the ASPCA's website about animals and shelters. It seems that over seven and a half million companion animals enter animal shelters every year. Of those, 3.9 million are cats, and 3.4 million are dogs. Of those 7.6 million animals, 2.7 million (1.2 million dogs, and 1.4 million cats) are euthanized. If those numbers are disturbing to you, know that you