Battered pit bull found in Anne Arundel
For the second time in just over a month, Anne Arundel County officials are trying to track down owners of a pit bull found severely injured and abandoned. A resident brought an injured female pit bull...
View ArticlePolice killing of Cisco getting a second look
Inundated with angry calls and emails, the Austin police department has reassigned the officer involved in the fatal shooting of a dog Saturday. In addition to taking a closer look at the incident, in...
View ArticleDC dog attack caught by security camera
D.C. animal control officers are seeking the two dogs captured on this surveillance video, chasing a group of youngsters to the top of a car and, later, biting a man who came to their aide. The...
View ArticleCops and dogs I: Tasered in Illinois
A woman whose pit bull died after it was stunned with a Taser by a police officer in Roselle said it wasn’t necessary to use that much force on the animal. “I want the officer to know that what he did...
View ArticleCops and dogs III: A melee in Michigan
A drunk driving arrest turned nasty in Mason, Michigan, when officers used pepper spray and Tasers to subdue a suspect, whose dog joined the skirmish and bit one of the officers on the leg. Joel...
View ArticleFund created in memory of Georgia rescuer
Rebecca Carey had been finding homes for animals in need, volunteering at animal shelters and taking in rescues from the time she was a young teen, and all the way up to the weekend before last. That’s...
View ArticleStreet dogs blamed in four Mexico City deaths
Street dogs are being blamed for the deaths of four people in a park on the outskirts of Mexico City. “Experts have established that due to the gravity of the wounds, at least 10 dogs were involved in...
View ArticleTests have yet to implicate Mexico City street dogs in suspected maulings at...
Of the more than 50 street dogs rounded up after five humans were found dead in a Mexico City park, almost half have had tests done on their stomach contents, and none have shown any evidence of having...
View ArticlePublicist sues over injuries to boarded dog
It’s not everyday that a major metropolitan newspaper assigns one reporter to a dog-bites-dog story, much less three of them. Not that we have any problem with that. The New York Daily News reports...
View Article“No comment” would have sufficed: TV reporter bitten while seeking interview
A woman who didn’t want to tell a TV news team “how she felt” about her daughter being shot threw a rock at them, shook a baseball bat at them, and then sent her dogs after reporter Abbey Niezgoda of...
View Article“Pit bull attack” in park never happened
That massive search for a bloodthirsty pit bull roaming Wildwood Preserve in Ohio never produced any results — because the pit bull never existed. It turns out that the couple who told police they were...
View ArticlePolice dog who attacked officer shot, killed
An Alameda police officer shot and killed one of her department’s own dogs when the dog attacked her and bit her arm. Billy, a Belgian Malinois, and his handler were among those responding Thursday to...
View ArticleFirefighter bitten during daring river rescue
The dog whose helicopter rescue from a rain-swollen river was captured by television cameras Friday is doing fine. Despite getting bitten, the Los Angeles firefighter who rescued him is too....
View ArticleYorkie beaten, boyfriend of actress charged
The boyfriend of Broadway actress Ashley Yeater has been charged with whipping and kicking her Yorkshire terrier after the 6-pound dog bit him. Joseph Graves, 30, admitted to investigators he beat the...
View ArticleThousands are rooting for this underdog
Spork is a 10-year-old, 17-pound dachshund who, after biting a veterinary technician during oral surgery, has been labeled vicious and faces the possibility of being euthanized. That possibility is...
View ArticleSpork gets reprieve, vet tech speaks out
It’s amazing, when you think about it, how much one little dog can shake up the whole world. We see it over and over again: with Buddy, the dog dragged through Colorado National Monument; Pepper,...
View ArticleDogs cited after chasing humane society head
The executive director of the Capitol Humane Society in Lincoln, Nebraska escaped unharmed in a high speed chase involving his bicycle and three pursuing dogs. “It just scares the daylights out of...
View ArticleAnother good argument for leashing humans
One human bit another at a New York dog park Sunday night. Police said a fight broke out between two dog owners at Kennedy Dells dog park in New City. Apparently one dog owner did not like the fashion...
View ArticleSnakes rattling dog owners in Colorado
A popular dog park in Aurora, Colorado has been shut down after an increase in dogs being bitten by rattlesnakes. The decision was made to close the Great Plains Dog Park off Jewel Avenue earlier this...
View ArticleThe talk of Talkeetna: DOG BITES MAYOR!
When dog bites man, the old saying goes, that’s not news. When dog bites mayor, that’s news. And when the mayor is a cat, that’s even bigger news, right? Stubbs, honorary mayor of lovely Talkeetna,...
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