In Nashville, pets news means companion animal care, adoption, veterinary treatment and the everyday relationship between owners and their animals. This page covers pet ownership and care at the city level.
Metro Animal Care and Control will limit after-hours response to four nights per week while it recruits and trains additional officers.
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The male pup, born September 17, is the first giant anteater born at the zoo in five years.
Officer Rebecca Castleman steps into the K-9 role alongside Apollo as Parker leaves the Nashville Police Department.
Day to day, that means adoption trends at local shelters, pet food recalls, new veterinary treatments and the care practices pet owners adopt. Coverage reaches across the city and into the communities around it wherever a pet story crosses the line. Shelter capacity and adoption demand tend to rise and fall together, so the two are reported side by side. Housing rules that limit which animals people can keep constrain many of the pet stories that affect households here.
