Category Archives: Sad news
Dog, Bear-Bear, Shot & Killed by Off-Duty Fed. Officer at Dog Park
Jill Rosen, author of the Baltimore Sun’s Unleashed blog has been reporting on this story since it broke.
In Severn, Maryland an off-duty federal officer used his weapon in what he called “self-defense” and to end what to him appeared to be an aggressive attack on his German Shepherd at an enclosed dog park.
At 6:30 pm [...]
Police Dog Gage Hailed as Hero
K9 units perform a very special service for their human partners and the public. They are just as much an officer with just as many duties, most of them dangerous, as any human officer. When we lose K9s in the line of fire it is only fitting to recognize their sacrifice and bravery – to [...]
World’s Ugliest Dog Passes Away
Miss Ellie, the Chinese Crested who won the 2009 Ugliest Dog Competition (pedigree division) at the Sonoma-Marin Fair, has died at the age of 17.
While Miss Ellie lived for most of her life like royalty, her early days were not so easy. She was rescued at the age of 7 by Dawn Goehring with whom [...]
Covering the Upbeat
I have to be honest with you all . . . I have the best job on the planet. I get to write about animals, talk to people about animals, learn about animal issues and read all the animal related news for stories that I think you will want to read. Doesn’t that sound like [...]
Dogs Stolen from Tennessee Rescue
Canine Hope All Breed Rescue has issued a press release with information on dogs that were stolen from their Johnson City, TN facility.
ALERT! STOLEN RESCUE DOGS!
Our rescue has experienced a great tragedy. Someone broke into the Cool School For Dogs Puppy Dog Day Care and stole many of the rescue dogs that were being cared [...]
California Unwanted Chihuahua’s Find Homes Across Nation
Like so many precious resources that California produces, it is exporting the too-numerous Chihuahuas to other states.
We told you about California’s growing Chihuahua crisis a couple of weeks ago. At that time, some states – Washington, Oregon and Arizona – had taken about 100 of the little dogs and found homes for them. And while [...]
Too Many Chihuahuas for California Shelters
California shelters are experiencing a population explosion of Chihuahuas and experts are saying that pop culture and Hollywood are the reason for the problem. “All the shelters in California are seeing an upswing in Chihuahua impounds,” Deb Campbell, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco animal care and control department, told Maria L. La Ganga in [...]
Teague 10-28-95 to 11-18-09
We lost our little man last night. While it was not entirely unexpected, we were taken completely by surprise by the suddenness.
Teague, as many of you know, has had a plethora of health issues in the last couple of years – as an old dog will have. Most recently his mobility had been terribly compromised. [...]
Deer in National Zoo’s Lion Enclosure (video)
A white-tailed deer that lived in Rock Creek Park, which backs to the zoo, jumped over a barrier to find herself, literally, in the lion’s den.
At one point the young doe was caught and trapped by one of the two female lions living in the enclosure. The crowd of spectators that had gathered were horrified, [...]
Dean Koontz’s Ode to Trixie
Dean Koontz, author of tens of novels — most terrifying, and some prominently featuring a Golden Retriever as a main character – has written one more story about a beloved dog. This time he tells us about Trixie, the dog that he credits with “teaching him how to live” and what she has meant to [...]