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James Okafor
Rescue & Advocacy Writer
- Contributing Writer
James Okafor covers rescue, adoption, and the causes shaping animal welfare. His work follows the people and organisations working to give more pets a home, and the issues owners and advocates care about most.
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- Oct 6, 2026You Can Write Off Your Foster Pet's Food. Most Fosters Never Do.
- Sep 28, 2026Your Team's Most Valuable Rookie This Year Might Be a Shelter Dog
- Sep 16, 2026Retired War Dogs Come Home With the Same Wounds Their Handlers Do
- Sep 11, 2026He Quit City Life for a Van and a Rescue Puppy. It Grew Into a $200,000 Mission.
- Sep 6, 2026Austin Lost Its Most Famous Dog Bar. The City Is Still the Best in Texas for Your Dog.
- Aug 29, 2026His Dog Walks Into the Office at 5 P.M. and Ends the Workday
- Aug 27, 2026Every 'Service Dog Registry' Is a Scam. Here's What Actually Makes One Legal.
- Aug 26, 2026Shelters Are Overflowing. So Where Did All the Fosters Go?
- Aug 21, 2026One Woman, a 2002 Camry, and Brooklyn's Cats Nobody Else Will Save
- Aug 6, 2026Walking Dogs for a Living Is a Real Business. The Boring Parts Are What Make It Work
- Jul 27, 2026Your Dog Walker Loses $5 of Every $15 Walk. Here's Where It Goes.
- Jul 27, 2026Shipping Your Dog Overseas Can Cost $10,000. The Military Finally Started Paying.
- Jul 11, 2026Want a Neighborhood Dog Park? Stop Talking About Your Dog.
- Jul 6, 2026This Pit Bull Documentary Isn't Really About Dogs
- Jul 4, 2026Most 'Wolfdogs' Have No Wolf in Them. The Lie Is What Fills the Sanctuaries.
- Jul 3, 2026He Raised Two Dogs in a Van. His Small-Space Rules Beat Most Apartments.
- Jul 3, 2026The Rescue That Saved His Life Nearly Went Under Without Him
- Jul 1, 2026A TikTok Freed 40 Chained Dogs. The Part That Made It Work Wasn't the Video.
- Jun 25, 2026The Dog Nobody Wanted Just Stole a Billion-Dollar Movie
- Jun 19, 2026How to Get a Landlord to Say Yes to Your Pet
- Jun 16, 2026A Drug Raid Opened a Door. Behind It: a Dogfighting Ring and a 9-Foot Alligator Fed on the Evidence
- Jun 13, 2026The Co-Working Shakeout Had a Survival Trait: Letting the Dog In
- Jun 13, 2026Your Dog Can Now Call You. It Costs $105 and a Monthly Data Plan.
- Jun 9, 2026A Disabled Girl's Service Dog Got Her Family Kicked Off a Flight. The Culprit Was One Checkbox.
- Jun 4, 2026Britain Banned a Dog That Officially Doesn't Exist
- Jun 2, 2026The Blue Dogs of Chernobyl Aren't Radioactive. The Truth Is Grosser.
- May 27, 2026South Korea Banned the Dog Meat Trade. Nobody Planned for the Dogs.
- May 26, 2026He's Rehomed 40 Kittens. Behind the Cute Videos Is a System
- May 23, 2026The Law to Stop Puppy Mills Already Exists. This Bill Makes the USDA Use It.
- May 17, 2026111 Dogs, One Drug Tip, and the Law That Makes Dogfighting a Felony
- May 15, 2026Four Rescues, One Month, 300 Dogs: What the ASPCA's Busy May Reveals
- May 14, 2026Trapping the Cats Was Never the Hard Part
- May 10, 2026A Comment on Instagram Got a Two-Legged Street Dog a Mercedes Wheelchair
- May 6, 2026The Cheapest Way to Empty a Shelter Is the One Nobody Uses
- May 6, 2026Chewbacca's Soul Came From a Dog, His Voice From a Zoo Bear
- May 4, 2026She Was Convicted of Torturing Animals. The Law Still Called Them Hers.
- Apr 29, 202617 Surprising Dog Facts That All Come Back to One Thing: The Nose
- Apr 26, 2026Ukraine's Animals Are Still in the War. Here's How to Actually Help.
- Apr 16, 2026A Dog Invented the Booty Call. Now Science Is Building the Dog Phone
- Apr 15, 2026Every Big Pet Trend Traces Back to One Shift: Pets Became Family
- Apr 12, 2026One of the Longest Partnerships in the Service-Dog World Just Got Bigger
- Apr 10, 2026Stop Shopping for a Training Collar. Pick the Right Tool for Your Dog's Neck First
- Mar 23, 2026The Barrier Between People and Their Pets Isn't the Animals. It's the System
- Mar 16, 2026She Called the Sheriff to Approve Her Dog 'Rescue.' Over 100 Dogs Were Already Dead.
- Feb 24, 2026Match the Carrier to the Trip: A Buyer's Map for Small-Dog Travel
- Feb 23, 2026Tied Up for a Few Minutes, Gone in Seconds: A Chicago Dog's Close Call
- Feb 23, 2026Making Biscuits Isn't One Thing. How to Read What Your Cat Means
- Jan 27, 202623 Dogs, a Snowstorm, and the Law That Makes It a Felony
- Jan 3, 2026The Best Dog Books, Sorted by What You Actually Want From One
- Nov 15, 2025Guns, Cocaine, Fentanyl, and 207 Dogs: Inside a Dallas Dogfighting Bust
- Nov 14, 202512 Black-Owned Pet Brands Worth Buying for the Product, Not the Cause
- Nov 11, 2025How to Actually Buy an Air Purifier for a Pet Home (Plus 7 We'd Pick)
- Aug 27, 2025The Shelter Crisis Is Really a Cost-of-Living Crisis
- Aug 11, 2025The Pet Travel Gear Worth Buying, Sorted by How You Actually Travel
- Aug 10, 2025Which Viral Dog Challenges Actually Burn Energy (and Which Are Just for the Camera)
- Jul 31, 2025Should You Put a Camera on Your Cat? A Weight-First Buyer's Guide
- Jul 13, 202510 Chinese Dog Breeds Whose History Is Stranger Than Their Faces
- May 13, 2025Italy Just Ended the 'Big Dogs Ride in Cargo' Rule. The Rest of the World Is Watching.
- Apr 24, 2025Your Cat's Dinner Is Quietly Helping Rebuild Coral Reefs
- Feb 15, 2025Poisoned Bait Killed 3 Dogs and 51 Coyotes in Tucson. No One Was Caught
- Jul 29, 2024Why CatVideoFest Won't Cut One Big Check: The Case for Hyperlocal Charity
- Jun 11, 2024They Went Out for Crappie. They Came Back With 38 Drowning Dogs.
- May 14, 2024'You Don't Look Blind': How One Waiter's Words Broke the Law
- Apr 10, 2024L.A. Just Slammed the Brakes on New Dog Breeding. Here's the Fight Behind It.
- Feb 25, 2024Bobi Was the Oldest Dog Ever. Then the Proof Fell Apart.
- Sep 27, 202355 Dogs, One Business License: The Arizona Case That Exposes a Rescue Loophole
- Jun 20, 2022He Had No Connection to Ukraine. He Booked the Flight Anyway.
- Jun 15, 2022He Flies Infrared Drones Into Disaster Zones to Find the Animals Left Behind
- Apr 1, 2022A Dog Was Surrendered for Being 'Gay.' The Couple Who Adopted Him Had Heard That One Before.

