The facility would offer reduced prices to low-income pet owners in an attempt to reduce the number of strays that come from neighborhoods surrounding downtown.

The county lacks a private, not-for-profit group to find homes for stray dogs and cats.

An investigation found that lab employees kicked, threw, and dragged dogs; lifted rabbits by their ears and puppies by their throats; violently slammed cats into cages; and exposed animals to toxic chemicals.

Juli Erhart-Graves, president of the volunteer-run organization, said demand has outstripped SNSI’s ability to raise money and win grants during the economic downturn.

Indianapolis' new public safety director says the city's pound is woefully underfunded. But he also takes umbrage at critics who call it a dirty death row for unwanted cats and dogs.

The group, which rang up more than $3 million in debt before changing course in 2008, had been operating at a deficit for six years.

One of the first things new airport CEO John Clark said he wanted to do was to squeeze more use—and revenue—out of the new airport terminal’s Civic Plaza space.

The $100,000 Indianapolis Prize, given every other year for achievement in animal conservation, said novelist and Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen and actor Harrison Ford will be co-chairs for the September 2010 award.

The Humane Society of Indianapolis is shopping for donors to support construction of a $3 million spay/neuter clinic in the Fountain Square area.

Humane Society of Indianapolis has been running adoption specials that have people lining up outside the Michigan Road shelter on weekends.

Clad in iguana-patterned medical scrubs, Angela Lennox moves quickly around the clinic laboratory, administering barium to a ferret and ordering a guinea pig X-ray. From there, she moves to an exam room, taking blood from an unruly bird and diagnosing an injured pet duck—all in the span of about 30 minutes.

FACE Spay/Neuter Clinic strives to end pet overpopulation in Indianapolis through high-volume, low-cost, and high-quality spay/neuter surgeries.

A group of thoroughbred lovers concerned about the horses' futures spend every weekend during the summer racing season at Hoosier Park.

John Aleshire, the executive director of the Humane Society of Indianapolis, is rolling out policies that please animal advocates.