Posted on · The numbers of stray dogs and cats being euthanized have increased in recent months at animal shelters operated by the City of Houston and Harris County, which are coping with capacity issues related to staffing shortages and declines in pet adoptions.
Posted on · On Monday's show: Will Texas see another COVID-19 spike once the mask order ends? And reflecting on the one-year anniversary of the global pandemic arriving in Houston.
Posted on · The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
Posted on · BARC's director says mild winters mean pets can eat, drink, and procreate year-round.
Posted on · On Monday's Houston Matters: Strife in the HISD board, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher, stray animals, and Houston sports.
Posted on · Houston Matters' Maggie Martin visits with the Harris County Animal Shelter to learn more about the challenges the agency faces.
Posted on · It will have rooms where residents interact with the animals as they decide on adopting.
Posted on · The facility provides spaying and neutering services for fees ranging from $35 to $65.
Posted on · A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week's news, we turn to our rotating panel of "non-experts" to parse The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of it all. On this edition, we discuss the […]
Posted on · About 30 minutes north of Houston, in Atascocita, tucked behind the Harris County Fire Marshal's office and the training academy is the Sheriff's Livestock Office. On any given day, you can find a stray horse, some cattle or even a zebra enclosed in their pens. Edel Howlin went out to the Harris County Sheriff's Livestock […]
Posted on · Galveston Island is 30 miles long and is home to about 50,000 residents, but that still doesn't mean some of the island’s newest residents have room to stretch out and live in peace. We're talking unwanted visitors of the four-legged kind — namely feral cats — who just happen to prey on the island's abundance […]
Posted on · Greater Houston has a well-documented stray animal problem. And area animal shelters face the challenge trying to care for and place many of those animals. The city’s Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care, or BARC, is required to accept stray animals. BARC has the capacity to care for about 550 at a time, but collects […]