President Obama buys a chew toy
President Obama sure doesn’t know much about Christmas shopping for the dog. His first mistake? He brings Bo with him to buy Bo’s gifts, thus spoiling any surprise that might have come Christmas...
View ArticleClose encounters of the turd kind
Citizen journalist and dog poop vigilante Andy Ross reports that a four-year-old girl in New Haven had to be treated at a local hospital after an encounter with dog feces in Wooster Square Park. The...
View ArticleAn act both cruel and unbelievably stupid
A Toledo man stuffed six English bulldog puppies and their mother into a piece of luggage and abandoned them next to a trash bin — apparently not realizing that the canvas suitcase had a tag on it...
View ArticleBeagle mix is nursing five kittens
Sydney, a beagle-terrier mix in Michigan, has taken on the job of nursing five kittens. The dog’s owner, Heather Rector, of Portage, brought the kittens home last week after they were rescued from a...
View ArticlePit bull saves owner from oncoming train
A Massachusetts pit bull is being credited with pulling her owner off the railroad tracks, saving her from an oncoming freight train. And that, lest you find it hard to believe, is according to both...
View ArticleDogs left in suitcase are headed to new homes
The “Suitcase 6″ are headed to new homes. Found zipped up inside a canvas suitcase left behind a grocery store in Toledo last month, the six bulldog pups and their mom are being awarded to winners of a...
View ArticleLab helps save toddler from backyard pool
A Michigan mom says she’d only turned her back for a few seconds when she noticed here 14-month-old son had disappeared. She rushed to the other side of her house to see her son Stanley in the swimming...
View ArticleMother dog totes pups to safety of fire truck
A mother dog was photographed rescuing her litter of puppies from a house fire in Chile. In the photos, a German shepherd mix named “Amanda” carries five of her 10-day old pups in her mouth, dropping...
View ArticleMom and pop dogfighting ring broken up
Officials in Pennsylvania believe they have found the source of that pit bull corpse that turned up in Chester County — a dogfighting operation they say operated out of a home in West Brandywine....
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 ArticleDog serving as mom for rare red panda cubs
Two red panda cubs abandoned by their mother at birth are thriving at a northern China zoo thanks to milk and loving care from a tiny dog serving as surrogate mother. You can see a photo here. The...
View ArticleHow to tell a dog story
Lane DeGregory has a knack for finding good dog stories, and a style of storytelling so simple, sparse, hype-free and on target that reading one is like viewing a piece of well-conceived,...
View ArticlePolice: Angry son tries to drown mom’s dogs
A Florida man who was angry with his mother tried to drown her two dogs in a nearby lake in Pompano Beach, tossing both of them into the water while they were enclosed in their crates, police said. An...
View Article5 days in jail for abandoning pregnant dog
An Ohio man will spend five days in jail for abadoning a pregnant dog at a farm in February. Darryl Lawson, 45, of Hamilton, pleaded guilty yesterday to misdemeanor charges of cruelty to animals and...
View ArticleTwinkle to the rescue
A neglected Yorkshire terrier, named Twinkle, gave birth to a litter — all stillborn – not long after she was dropped off at the Forsyth County Animal Shelter in North Carolina. Shortly after that, the...
View ArticleInjured stray nurses her own — and more
A stray dog in Canada didn’t let getting hit by a car keep her from nursing her litter of five pups. And one kitten. Esperanza, as she’s been named (Spanish for “Hope”), was found on a central Alberta...
View ArticleDozens of cousins, and several hams
This segment of Travels With Ace contains no Ace. For this jaunt, to Asheboro, N.C., for a family reunion, mom — not dog — was my co-pilot. It was one of those rare times I made the call to leave Ace...
View ArticleMother dog nurses orphaned raccoon
A rescued dog in eastern Missouri adopted an orphaned baby raccoon as her own after losing one of her puppies during labor. The dog, named Sasha, had been surrendered to a shelter with what was...
View ArticleCrated pups left to nurse off dead mother
Those who think this website contains too much distressing dog news (which it does, because the world does) might want to skip this story. “Beyond the human imagination,” is how the sheriff of Parker...
View ArticleA happy reunion at Marin Humane Society
After realizing a surrendered dog had recently given birth, staff at the Marin Humane Society in California contacted the dog’s former owner and asked about the pups. The owner was “evasive” and...
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