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WASHINGTON, DC -
As a white ASPCA van rolls into Washington, thirteen animals get a little closer to home.
They are dogs and cats rescued after Hurricane Sandy. Anna Strates from the Washington Animal Rescue League went to New York to retrieve them from a giant warehouse that served as a temporary shelter.
"We've had animals that were surrendered. They knew they'd lost everything. They cared enough about their animals to give them up," says Strates, as she fights back tears. "There was this one man that would come in every day to take care of his dog. And another small little Russian woman who came in every day to take care of her fat little Chihauhua. She would feed him whole carrots and she would come in really grumpy and by the end she'd be happy and warm and she still had no place to live," says Strates.
What the animals need now is rest.
"They definitely need de-stressing time. An emergency shelter is a stressful environment. Not the most perfect place for them to be. They're in crates. They don't get as much exercise as they might truly need," says behavior specialist Lisa Stemcosky.
It'll be days, and for some, weeks before the animals are ready for adoption.
"Bringing them here just brings it all full circle for me. I know that they'll have a great home," says Strates. A happy ending and a new beginning.
Tuesday, June 18 2013 1:17 PM EDT2013-06-18 17:17:07 GMT
A Spokane, Washington hairstylist decided to shave her head after her sister was diagnosed with cancer. But she never imagined that decision would force her to quit a job she loved.
A Spokane, Washington hairstylist decided to shave her head after her sister was diagnosed with cancer. But she never imagined that decision would force her to quit a job she loved.
Monday, June 17 2013 11:45 PM EDT2013-06-18 03:45:41 GMT
A video showing a collision between a cyclist and a cabbie right in the heart of D.C. is going viral. However, what makes this footage different is the cyclist and his buddies are riding in the middle of an event designed to promote biking and safety.
A video showing a collision between a cyclist and a cabbie right in the heart of D.C. is going viral. However, what makes this footage different is the cyclist and his buddies are riding in the middle of an event designed to promote biking and safety.
Monday, June 17 2013 12:24 PM EDT2013-06-17 16:24:23 GMT
The father of the former NSA contractor who leaked details of the government's massive Internet- and phone-tracking programs made an impassioned plea to his son to stop leaking, telling Fox News that "I hope, I pray" he does not do anything considered treasonous.
The father of the former NSA contractor who leaked details of the government's massive Internet- and phone-tracking programs made an impassioned plea to his son to stop leaking, telling Fox News that "I hope, I pray" he does not do anything considered treasonous.
Friday, June 14 2013 12:29 PM EDT2013-06-14 16:29:16 GMT
D.C. police have been warning bicyclists since March not to ride the Metropolitan Branch Trail alone. And they stepped up patrols on the trail then too. But it didn't stop a group of teenagers from knocking a 37-year-old Silver Spring man off his bike Tuesday and savagely beating him.
D.C. police have been warning bicyclists since March not to ride the Metropolitan Branch Trail alone. And they stepped up patrols on the trail then too. But it didn't stop a group of teenagers from knocking a 37-year-old Silver Spring man off his bike Tuesday and savagely beating him.
Thursday, June 13 2013 12:32 PM EDT2013-06-13 16:32:12 GMT
Homo sapiens have slowly evolved over thousands of millennia, but what happens when modern technology comes into play? Visual artist, Nickolay Lamm of Pittsburgh, Pa., tried to answer that question.
Homo sapiens have slowly evolved over thousands of millennia, but what happens when modern technology comes into play? Visual artist, Nickolay Lamm of Pittsburgh, Pa., tried to answer that question.
Wednesday, June 12 2013 11:23 AM EDT2013-06-12 15:23:57 GMT
Dogged by fear and confusion about sweeping spy programs, intelligence officials sought to convince House lawmakers in an unusual briefing Tuesday that the government's years-long collection of phone records and Internet usage is necessary for protecting Americans -- and does not trample on their privacy rights.But the country's main civil liberties organization wasn't buying it, filing the most significant lawsuit against the massive phone record collection program so far. The American Civil...
Dogged by fear and confusion about sweeping spy programs, intelligence officials sought to convince House lawmakers in an unusual briefing Tuesday that the government's years-long collection of phone records and Internet usage is necessary for protecting Americans -- and does not trample on their privacy rights.But the country's main civil liberties organization wasn't buying it, filing the most significant lawsuit against the massive phone record collection program so far. The American Civil...
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