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Puppies sleep in a caged area inside a surgery room on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, at St. Francis CARE Animal Shelter in Murphysboro. Kay Crease, the animal shelters veterinarian, said the puppies have all since been adopted. (Bill Lukitsch | @lukitsbill)

Volunteer from home by fostering for local animal shelters

By Alex Williams, Staff Reporter
April 5, 2020
A Saluki dog looks towards the crowd on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, during the Southern Illinois Salukis matchup against the Evansville Purple Aces at SIU Arena.

From King Tut to the Blair family: The history behind the Saluki mascots

By Jacob Lorenz, Staff Reporter
August 26, 2019
Alaina and Heather Reno, of Carterville, walk dogs on Saturday, March 23, 2019, for Wright Way Animal Rescue’s “Hike with a Homeless Dog” event at Giant City State Park.

The great pet debate — who’s better cats or dogs?

By Elizabeth Biernacki, Staff Reporter
April 16, 2019
A male pitbull reacts reacts while being handled on March 29, 2019, at the Carbondale Humane Society.

Opinion: Stigma against pit bulls is unjustified

By Elizabeth Biernacki, Staff Reporter
April 1, 2019
Ted Randich pets Karen on Saturday, March 23, 2019, for Wright Way Animal Rescue’s “Hike with a Homeless Dog” event at Giant City State Park.

Hike with a Homeless Dog event promotes exercise, dog adoption

By Emily Cooper, Staff Reporter
March 26, 2019
Seth Moorman, a carbondale K-9 patrol officer, 27, of Carterville stands on the grass field behind the Carbondale police station with his canine, Pasja, as he talks about the training he took to be a K-9 officer, Friday, Oct. 12, 2018. Moorman said that he spent his first six weeks with Pasja training in Indianapolis, coming back to Carbondale in August 2017. “If an officer does a traffic stop and wants to walk the dog around the car and the dog can sniff for illegal narcotics, she can do that. If there is also any type of crime like a robbery or a burglary or something like that that’s just happened recently, depending on the information we have, we might be able to deploy her and track a suspect,” Moorman said. “We can also use her to clear buildings.” (Allie Tiller | @allietiller_de)

Photo of the day: New dawgs in town

By Allie Tiller, Staff Photographer
October 18, 2018
From left: Sawyer Schrader, a graduate student from Sterling studying engineering; Lady, a mixed breed rescue dog from the St. Francis Care Animal Shelter in Murphysboro and Katy Stoughtenger, an alumni from Carbondale, spend a morning playing with Lady’s companion Bennie, Katy’s three year old boxer (not pictured) on Sunday, May 7, 2017, at Stehr Field. “There are no good dog parks in Carbondale that are open to the public,” Sawyer said. “Since this used to be a dog park it’s nice. It’s open, fenced in and we keep it clean. It’s great.” (William Cooley | @Wcooley1980)

Photo of the Day: A day with the dogs

By William Cooley
May 7, 2017
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Photo of the Day: Smartphone Santa

By Jacob Wiegand
December 10, 2016

University police department sniffs out money for K-9 unit

By Cory Ray, Daily Egyptian
September 6, 2015
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