animal rescue

Lee County animal shelter offers $30 donation fees for adopting adult dogs and cats.

Over the weekend the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was mobilizing its disaster response team to assist Lee County Domestic Animal Services in Fort Myers with search and rescue for animal victims of Hurricane Ian, and will also be supporting local emergency sheltering needs for displaced animals.

A pelican rescue group is calling on state wildlife officials to increase patrols at a popular fishing pier in Manatee County where more than a dozen mutilated birds have been found over the past month.

The Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife, or CROW, expects to see a record-breaking number of patients this year.On Sept. 21, the clinic treated its…