Mississippi Exotic Pet Laws: The Animals You’re Allowed to Keep—and the Ones You Aren’t

In October 2025, a truck transporting 21 rhesus monkeys overturned on Interstate 59 north of Heidelberg, Mississippi. Several ...

Vanishing Herds Rebound Into Mississippi’s Billion-Dollar Icon

The white-tailed deer became Mississippi’s official state land mammal in 1974, but its connection to the state reaches far ...
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Animal shelters urge residents to bring pets inside, foster pets as dangerous cold grips Mississippi

Animal rescue groups plead with residents to bring pets indoors and consider fostering as dangerously cold weather threatens ...

Animal advocates rush to save more than 200 dogs in Mississippi before winter storm

Animal advocates are racing to rescue more than 200 dogs from a rural Mississippi property before a massive winter storm.
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Mississippi authorities find 200 dogs living in poor conditions

LEE COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – Lee County deputies announced 200 dogs were found in “inadequate” living conditions. On January 5, ...
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Animal welfare groups from across the country help with neglect case in Lee County

North Mississippi Animal Control is working with the Lee County Sheriff's Office to rescue approximately two hundred dogs ...