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Date Unknown (above).
February 15, 1946 (above).
February 15, 1946 (above).
Circa 1890 (above).
The Station Collies Circa 1900 (above).
September 1899 (above).
Date Unknown (above).
Sweden, Circa 1910 (above).
Sweden, Circa 1910 (above).
Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister at the Downbeat in New York, N.Y., Feb. 1947.
Portrait of Lilyann Carol in New York, N.Y., Oct. 1946.
Patrick says, "Leave me outta it, you evil, rotten scammers!"
They’re almost as evil as the monster who starved him and threw him away in the trash.
The story of the rescue of Patrick the Miracle Dog was apparently too tempting for scammers and others looking to cash in on his fame.
The Associated Humane Societies/Popcorn Park, which is caring for the emaciated and abandoned pit bull as he recovers, says a number of organizations and individuals are claiming to collect money on his behalf, but none is going to the pup.
At the same time, new pictures were released of Patrick and the garbage chute that almost became his tomb on the day before St. Patrick’s Day.
Patrick was found by an apartment building maintenance man who saw movement in a bag at the bottom of the chute.
His horror story resulted in the launch of a Facebook page that showed international outrage over how a pet could be treated like trash.
“The story of Patrick alone is heartbreaking, but the fact that people are trying to profit from this travesty is just despicable,” Associated Humane Societies Executive Director Roseann Trezza said in a statement.
The AHS notes there are t-shirts and even artwork being sold with likenesses of Patrick, but none of those result in any donations to its work.
The organization suggests anyone who wants to donate on behalf of Patrick visit its website www.ahscares.org.
Kisha Curtis, 27, the owner of Patrick, awaits trial in Newark on four counts of animal abuse. An investigation by the New Jersey SPCA continues into whether Curtis, or possibly someone else, actually put the dog in a plastic bag and threw him down the chute.
Curtis’s mother says she was given the dog and could not afford to care for it.
The Missouri House this afternoon passed by a margin of 85 to 71 a bill that would overturn many of the regulations for dog breeders that state voters approved last year.
A similar bill, SB113, passed the Senate earlier this year. The legislation gets rid of the limits that were to be put in place this August following the close passage in November of the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act. The new bill would strip provisions of the prevention act that limited dog breeders to owning no more than 50 breeding animals and required that the canines have ample room to move in their cages.
Now organizers of the November ballot issue say they’ll coordinate another petition drive should Governor Jay Nixon sign the law.
“The House decided to defy the will of the voters and dismantle Proposition B piece by piece, dealing a blow to dogs suffering in substandard facilities and also to the democratic process in Missouri,” said Barbara Schmitz of Missourians for the Protection of Dogs in a statement today.
“Not only did some lawmakers choose to overturn a statewide vote, but some of them even voted against their districts. It is now up to Governor Jay Nixon to stop this assault on voting rights. If the repeal bill is enacted, we are prepared to immediately begin gathering signatures for a referendum to bring this issue back to Missouri voters and allow the people to have the final say.”
Japanese Dog-lovers were moved by this picture of shelties on an abandoned street in the nuclear exclusion zone.
They’re determined to save the ones left behind.
Though a 20km exclusion zone was put in place around the damaged Fukushima, Japan nuclear power plant as deadly radiation spills into the atmosphere, teams of animal-lovers are ignoring health warnings to scour the deserted wasteland for signs of canine life.
The search began earlier this week when Etsumi Ogino saw a photo of a pack of Shelties wandering through an abandoned town and thought of her own 13-year-old pet, Kein.
‘My heart trembled,’ said Ms Ogino, a 56-year-old volunteer at an animal shelter in Chiba prefecture. ‘They looked just like my dog. I started searching for them right away.’
She managed to track down the photographer who took the photo and got the address where the dogs were spotted. Ms Ogino then relayed the information to a team of animal rescuers called Sheltie Rescue. Through emails and internet research it was then established that the owner of the dogs was a breeder in Minami Soma, Japan. The group then tracked the owner down and got her go-ahead to rescue the dogs.
Volunteers in protective suits brought dog food and rescued over 20 dogs.
The first to arrive on the scene found the pack around the Odaka, Japan railway station, near the owner’s home, where the dogs had last been seen.
‘They were waiting for their owner,’ said Tamiko Nakamura, a volunteer who went with the group from Tokyo.
The dogs had been left some dry food, and were not starving.
It took a while to entice them with snacks, and six or seven were bundled into each car. The group saved 20 dogs in all.
Most were taken to a veterinary clinic in Kanagawa prefecture just west of Tokyo. Others are being cared for by individuals in other areas.
The owner, worn down by the disaster and worrying about her dogs, was ‘extremely happy’, Ms Nakamura said. She said the owner did not want her identity revealed.
Ms Nakamura only regrets that some of the dogs in the pack ran away and countless others are still stranded in the evacuation zone.
‘There are still some left behind,’ she said. ‘I’m concerned about them and want to pull them out.’
Just a warning to all our Dog Files friends down south in gator country. Please be extra cautious about letting your pets outside. It’s alligator mating season and as the video below shows, it can be very dangerous to your pups.
Our heart goes out to the family that lost their boxer pup, Gage.
It’s not exactly a cat on a hot tin roof but it did get a lot of attention.
Neighbors called the county dog warden after seeing a dog hanging out on the roof of a house on Jefferson Street in Youngstown, Ohio.
The dog had apparently knocked out a window on the second floor and was able to climb in and out of the house as he pleased.
The owner of the house wasn’t home.
When the dog warden arrived, he heard another dog barking inside and didn’t see the proper tags on the dog on the roof.
??”So the first thing is, the two dogs in there that are non-licensed, that will be the first issue,” said Mahoning County, Ohio Dog Warden Dave Nelson. “In the meantime, I’m going to try to make contact with him through the neighbor. She said he lets the dog do it, it’s easier than walking the dog. That he just goes out on the roof and protects the property and whatever, does his business and goes from there.”
Neighbors said the dogs’ owner was at work at the time.
Nelson said he’s not sure if any laws were broken since the dog did not appear to be hurt or sick.??
“There’s a fine line … that can it reasonably be expected the dog would in some way be sick or in some way suffer, and of course, if he jumped off the roof,” said Nelson. “There’s all kinds of things like that that can transpire from there, and it would be something that we’d take to the prosecutor and let the prosecutor see.”
Was the dog really charging them or was he just running up to the Officers to say hi? All the police said was that the dog came out of the door charging them. But the police were in someone’s backyard without the owner’s knowledge. Whose dog wouldn’t run at a stranger who startled them in their own backyard?
Obviously, I wasn’t there, so I’ll never know what really happened. But what I do know is that the killing of a family dog on his own property or in his own house is becoming all too common.
The only answer here is giving police departments more knowledge and training about dogs behavior before they run into this issue. And I’m afraid that as the popularity of dogs rises, we will see many more of these senseless shootings.
And that just opens up another question. Is your dog next?
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