When employees at Hillsborough County Animal Services saw the budget cuts the department faced last spring, they felt their core missions of public safety and preventing animal cruelty were finished. ...more

December 30, 2009

Money for programs that help children, the elderly and business groups was restored Thursday by Hillsborough County commissioners as they struggled over what to cut and what to keep in a tough budget year. ...more

August 1, 2008

A menagerie of 55 goats, 35 dogs and seven cats were seized Wednesday from homeowners who lived in filth and kept the animals in putrid conditions, investigators said. ...more

July 31, 2008

An investigation into a couple selling dogs for hundreds of dollars led to a Seffner home in deplorable conditions and 55 goats, 35 dogs and seven cats living in filth, said Marti Ryan of Hillsborough County Animal Services. ...more

July 30, 2008

TAMPA - For animal control officers more accustomed to dogs or cats, a pony -- not even a full-grown horse -- is a bit larger than the critters they normally encounter. ...more

June 11, 2008

Fourteen of 26 dogs seized last week from a roadside Wimauma dogmonger became available for adoption Wednesday. ...more

May 8, 2008

BRANDON - Fourteen of 26 dogs seized last week from a roadside Wimauma dogmonger went on the adoption block today. ...more

May 7, 2008