When the 12-year-old Pitbull named Lloyd was found wandering around the streets of Niagara Falls by police and brought to the Niagara SPCA, he didn’t know that he would become a local celebrity of sorts.
Celebrity couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick sadly announced on their respective social media posts the loss of their family dog, a Pitbull named Lily, on August 7, 2022.
A black Labrador Retriever mix named Luigi, who was lost for 29 days in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, was found and is now safely back with his family.
A woman from Sedro-Woolley, Washington was arrested on July 26, 2022, for leaving her dog outside on the balcony without any shade during a dangerous heat wave. Concerned neighbors who heard the dog in distress trying to claw on the sliding door reported the incident to the Sedro-Woolley Police Department (SWPD).
Actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who voiced the character of Krypto the Super-Dog in the movie, posted on his social media accounts on July 26 the delightful surprise he made on the Hernandez children by introducing a rescue puppy they would be adopting.
A Good Samaritan and New York City firefighters saved a two-year-old Pitbull from drowning when it was thrown off a bridge by an unidentified person into the Harlem River on July 19, 2022, at around noon.
Twenty dogs from several countries landed at the John F. Kennedy International Airport on July 18, 2022, to be reunited with the US military personnel who adopted them while serving overseas. With the help of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) through their Operation Baghdad Pups program, the dogs were flown from different parts of the globe where the US military is deployed.
All three dogs missing from the St. Paws Dog Daycare, Boarding & Grooming in St. Paul, Minnesota, had been found. The kennel was reported burglarized on the morning of July 14, 2022.
At least 4,000 Beagles that were used for medical research in a Virginia breeding facility will be transferred to various shelters across the United States. The plan was approved after a federal judge ruled on July 5, 2022, that Envigo RMS, the company that operates the facility, violates the welfare of the animals.
