Animal rescue behaviour groups are warning people to consider the long-term impacts of adopting a puppy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

After years of planning, the Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society is preparing to open a building in Edmonton, but it needs your help.

Staff and volunteers at AARCS are giving each dog a medical assessment before they're placed in foster homes, where they'll live until they're ready to be adopted. 

A Calgary animal shelter is reducing the cat adoption fee until the end of July.

April Irving is facing 13 counts of animal cruelty after more than 200 dogs were seized from a property near Milk River in 2015.

To be a donor, dogs must be over 55 pounds, between one and eight years old, up to date on their vaccines and well-behaved.

A Calgary animal rescue is calling it "an act of desperation."

It was an unexpected discovery next to the railroad tracks between Stettler and Erskine, just northeast of Red Deer. More than a dozen cats were found inside two Rubbermaid containers that were duct taped shut with air holes drilled into the lids.

The Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society (AARCS) reached maximum capacity with 600 homeless cats and dogs last week after adoptions were sluggish.

If you can't adopt, AARCS said you can donate time or money, or foster animals.