VIRGINIA BEACH

Tyler Carmack’s patients may be nibbling on doughnuts or hamburgers when she shows up. It’s a special treat after living a long life and suffering from illness.

WILLIAMSBURG Health officials are asking for the public’s help locating a cat that bit a person in Ford’s Colony on Tuesday. The cat is large, black and white with a white stripe down its nose, according to a news release from the Peninsula Health District. The cat looks healthy. If it isn’t found, the person who was bitten will have to undergo shots to prevent rabies.

Among the hundreds of pretty kitties coming to Newport News this weekend will be eight with some pretty harrowing stories, and maybe only eight of their nine lives left.
Martin, Gypsy, Gadget, Sylvester, Miss Hatteras, Bootsie, Betsy and Riley were all rescued on Hatteras Island after Hurricane Irene, and they are looking for new homes.

SUFFOLK
A 13-year-old boy convicted of beating a kitten to death last spring was sentenced this week to supervised probation and given a suspended sentence of 30 days in juvenile detention.
The boy, who was 12 at the time of the incident, was convicted Oct. 18 in Suffolk Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of misdemeanor animal cruelty.

CHESAPEAKE
Father Joel Marable is excited about his new health care provider, Donovan. ¶ The Anglican Catholic priest doesn’t even mind that Donovan has no formal medical schooling. After all, the guy works for just room and board ... and, well, an occasional pat on the head.

VIRGINIA BEACH

Andrew Hall, 17, pets Gracie, a three-legged dog that originally lived in Afghanistan, in his Virginia Beach home on Friday. Members of PETA took care of the dog in October after it was brought back to the States by a soldier serving in Afghanistan. PETA delivered the dog to its new adoptive owners on Friday.

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NORFOLK
Gracie the dog clearly has seen some trauma in her short life.
She's missing half a leg and both ears - apparently the result of scrapping to survive on the streets of Afghanistan, where she won the heart of an American soldier.

VIRGINIA BEACH Nearly 50 homeless animals found families Saturday and Sunday during the inaugural weekend of the city's new Animal Care and Adoption Center. Residents were lined up to find new pets when the shelter opened at 10 a.m. Saturday, shelter spokesman Wayne Gilbert said. Forty-six animals - 26 dogs, 14 cats, four ferrets and two snakes - went to new homes, he said.

VIRGINIA BEACH
Bama was more than a little excited to move into her new home Tuesday.
Just after sunrise, it was her turn to make the seven-mile trek from the city's 37-year-old shelter on Leroy Road to its sparkling new one on South Birdneck Road. She sprinted from the building - dragging volunteer Levi Hankins behind her - and leapt into the back of an Animal Control vehicle.