Dogs in rural areas of the United States are desperately in need of medical care as well as a place to take shelter from the sweltering heat and raging storms. Jon Stainback tells us why he builds sturdy doghouses to be delivered by PETA’s fieldworkers and what you can do to help.

After PETA and a whistleblower exposed that a Louisiana “shelter” was selling animals to experimenters, the state has passed historic legislation to protect animals.