This Montgomery County shelter is urgently asking residents to adopt or foster dogs after the shelter’s population exceeded its capacity this week.

The public information officer squatted on the concrete in slightly flared jeans, her pin-straight hair parted in the center, and cooed at the dog like she was a pigeon. The dog’s ears perked up, and ...

On a recent afternoon in a New York City subway car, a white dog with brown spots peered out of a man’s backpack. The dog, named Bertha, gave him constant licks. Bertha was found on the streets in ...