Are Cosmetic Companies Still Testing On Animals?

Animal Testing

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about cosmetic companies testing their products on animals again. Ground zero was a post back in 2012 by PeTA that you can read here. While Dog Files is not an advocate of PeTA, their work over three decades earlier to stop makeup companies from testing […]

My Dog Celebrated His Thirteenth Birthday And I’m Sad

A Birthday is supposed to be fun, right? When I adopted Remy in the summer of 2006 it was for all the wrong reasons. The first of which was that I was having so much trouble with Max’s separation anxiety I decided to bring in another dog as a last ditch effort to get Max […]

The Most Important Dog Files Post Of The Year: Dog Files Opinion

2012 was one tough year on everybody, including the dogs. Shelters were down on their adoption numbers and the ranks of dogs dropped off to the shelters rose. This is one of the unforeseen consequences of a terrible economy. People can’t afford their animals. During this embarrassing past election season, while partisans where screaming about […]

Why Animal Cruelty Laws Need To Have Bite

Recently, animal cruelty has been all over the news: Emmanuel Alfredo Tadeo, a 28 year old Georgia resident pleaded guilty to four charges, Aggravated Assault, Aggravated Animal Cruelty, Animal Cruelty and Battery, after he was arrested for beating his girlfriend with her dead Pomeranian, Murphy who he killed minutes beforehand. After receiving an upsetting phone […]

Partisan Politics? I'm On The Side Of The Dogs: Dog Files Opinion

So this week I had a few folks that were angry because I didn’t publish their comments on the DF website about the Congressman Steve King story. It was the typical left against right/right against left screaming. They both said the story was false. They both said I wrote it, which I didn’t (which makes […]

Dogfighting Starts With The Young: Dog Files Opinion

So I just watched a clip from the Michael Vick interview on Piers Morgan last night where he talked about when he first saw dogfighting as a young child. (You can watch it at the end of this post.) This opinion piece is not about how evil Michael Vick is. I’ve written those before. Everyone […]

Why Who We Aim Our Anger Over Lennox's Murder Matters

We all know the story of the unjust killing of Lennox the Dog in Belfast, Ireland. If you are unfamiliar with Lennox and the Barnes Family’s two year struggle to save him, you can read about it here. There is one thing I’d like to address right now. A lot of Dog Files Friends from […]

What Steve Jobs' Words Mean To The Dog World: Dog Files Opinion

Kenn Bell & Max

In case you don’t know, Steve Jobs is one of my heroes. Yes, he could be headstrong, and yes, he could be a jerk. But the man saw through the corporate red tape that holds so much of us back. He cut through it with determination and strength. He believed in what he was doing […]

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