More than 135,000 pets found new homes this past August, according to NBCUniversal Local’s 2026 Clear the Shelters campaign, its 12th annual nationwide adoption push spanning over 1,200 shelters ...

PEOPLE's World's Cutest Rescue Dog Contest Presented the PEDIGREE® brand is back for its fifth year and is celebrating by passing on the "Cutest" crown to another adopted pooch. Rescue dogs of all ...

Meet the 10 finalists of the 2026 PEOPLE’s World’s Cutest Rescue Dog Contest Presented by the PEDIGREE® Brand, who were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The time has come to crown a new winner of PEOPLE's World's Cutest Rescue Dog Contest Presented by the PEDIGREE® brand. Now in its ...

Elias Weiss Friedman, the photographer behind the wildly successful Dogist online platform, will help choose a winner for the 2026 contest Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

A 1-year-old Pasadena pooch named Gizmo is competing in People’s World’s Cutest Rescue Dog Contest. The local dog is one of the 10 finalists in the competition, whose winner gets a photo shoot, a ...

A lawyer walked into a Georgia shelter hoping to save one dog, and what she witnessed in the days that followed changed the ...

I will deliver the necessary pre-adoption training, costs, and the 'weight of life' that families should learn together, ...

The contest highlights rescue dogs and awards the winner with a PEOPLE feature, a photo shoot, and a donation to a rescue organization Public voting for the top 10 ...

“The Traitors” and “Real Housewives of New Jersey” reality star will help choose the contest’s winner along with The Dogist Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The 2026 PEOPLE’s World’s Cutest Rescue Dog Contest Presented by the PEDIGREE® brand just got some added star power. Friedman, who has more than 11 million followers across his Dogist social platforms ...