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More than 140 dogs and cats will be adopted into forever homes after being airlifted from overcrowded animal shelters in Louisiana and Alabama during NBCUniversal Local’s Clear The Shelters pet adoption campaign.

This is the first time her cubs have been seen on-camera. Video aired during Today in LA on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022.

Visit Burbank Animal Shelter at 1150 N. Victory Pl., Burbank, CA 91502 or call (818) 238-3340 to adopt a furry friend.

A number of people living on the streets have pets of their own, and can’t get those animals the medical care they need. “Project Street Vet” aims to fill that gap.

The Carson animal shelter is offering discounted rates on pet adoptions. Angie Crouch reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Aug. 22, 2022.

The 155 at-risk cats that were flown from overpopulated animal shelters in Florida to Massachusses and New Jersey were adopted as part of NBC Universal Local’s Clear The Shelters campaign. 

NBC4 and Telemundo 52 Clear the Shelters partner Mary S. Roberts Adoption Center is offering a special Clear the Shelters $20 adoption fee on Saturday, August 27 at 6165 Industrial Ave. in Riverside. And it gets better: NBC4 and Telemundo 52 will pay the $20 adoption fee for the first 50 adoptions at this location starting on that day. It…...

Beginning this Friday on NBC stations and COZI TV, “The Blacklist” actor Amir Arison will host a Clear The Shelters live television special celebrating eight years of the annual pet adoption and donation campaign, which runs through the end of August.

The kitten was named Harvey after the fictional two-faced villain in the “Batman” series.

The hairless, scabby puppy was in the middle of the road in an industrial part of Iberville Parish, Louisiana, walking along the hot asphalt, looking for scraps of food as cars whizzed by. The woman who had spotted her was worried she would not survive.  When Alison Alvarado, the director of the Iberville Parish Shelter & Animal Control, s...

Abby the poodle-hound mix normally weighs about 50 pounds but her owner guessed she lost half her body weight in the cave.

NBC4’s annual Clear the Shelters pet adoption and donation campaign is taking place throughout August 2022 with nearly 80 shelters and rescue organizations participating to help ease the overcrowding of animals at shelters and raise awareness about the importance of pet adoption. Several shelters are hosting family-friendly adoption events du...