JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - Jackson-based animal rescue group Community Animal Rescue and Adoption will be featured on the Animal Planet show "Confessions: Animal Hoarding" Friday.

Two animals rescued during the show will also appear on WLBT’s Midday Mississippi Friday as our Pets of the Week.

The mom and daughter rats -- Jackie and Tater -- are two of dozens rescued from a local hoarder as part of the show.

The show, which explores stories of people who own more pets than they can care for, will feature a woman who had 13 cats, 12 dogs and about 50 rats in her Me

By Roslyn Anderson

JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - A Northeast Jackson woman credits her dog with alerting her to a crime unfolding in the middle of the night at her neighbor's home.

A burglar was reportedly shot by the homeowner who chased the suspect at gunpoint.

The ferocious barks from Adrianne Lucke's golden retriever mix awakened her early Tuesday morning, alerting her to a frightening scene unfolding at her neighbor's Sunnyvale Drive home.

"I've never heard him bark like that before, so I got my little gun out," said Lucke.

With Rusty still barking beside

By Roslyn Anderson

JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - The day before Thanksgiving hotels were busy gearing up for the rush of guests, but one Jackson hotel wasn't expecting to be cleaning up the damage from a car crashing into one of their rooms.

An unidentified man drove his car into a room at the Hampton Inn on Briarwood Drive.

Around 3:45 the blue 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis with Hinds county license plate slammed into an unoccupied room on the west end o