Kyera and Dozer Boy were indoor dogs. They went into the backyard three times a day, about 20 minutes at a time, and that was about it. On the morning of August 8 however, they didn’t come back. Toxicologists are now testing to see if the two Firestone Colorado dogs, found dead in their backyard [...]
A family dog in Mission, Texas brought home a severed human hand Thursday, launching a search that turned up the body of a suspected unauthorized immigrant. Sgt. Jody Tittle said police were called to a residence around 8:25 a.m. on reports that the family’s black Labrador Retriever had the hand in its mouth. Police searched [...]
Just past dawn, a gray SUV pulled into Hailey Shelton’s driveway in Durham, North Carolina and made off with her two dogs, Chloe and Dixie. Nobody heard a bark on that June morning. Nobody found an open gate. The only explanation came from a neighbor who witnessed the early morning dognappers from across the street. [...]
Pet pooches are once again free to roam the streets of Jiangmen, China without fear of the dogcatcher after accusations of animal cruelty forced officials in the southern Chinese city to pull back from a plan to cull dogs from the urban area. Originally the city had planned to clear “illegally-raised dogs” from its downtown [...]
A Riverside, California animal-rights group is offering a $500 reward in the fatal wounding of a German Shepherd puppy with a crossbow. The ASK Foundation, a nonprofit group that works with the city/county animal shelter, is hoping someone will come forward with information leading to an arrest. A security guard found the 6-month-old dog with [...]
An arrest warrant has been issued for the manager of a Marietta Georgia McDonald’s after she punched a mother of two autistic boys in the face. The reason?…the boys’ service dog. The manager, Tiffany Denise Allen, told the woman that the twin boys’ service dog, Barkley, wasn’t allowed inside. The law however, states that service [...]
A too-sweet-for-her-own-good dog has been denied a place in a UK police force after she was deemed “not brave enough“. Vegas, a 19-month old German Shepherd, underwent a rigorous regime to become one of the latest recruits to the Northumbria UK Police dog section. She was trained to become fearless and deal with a variety [...]
The Brunswick County North Carolina Sheriff’s Office lost one of its top dogs Saturday to cocaine poisoning from a package allegedly dropped by drug suspects. K-9 Viper was memorialized by about 200 county employees and law enforcement officers Tuesday morning during services in front of the county courthouse. A Belgian Malinois and one of the [...]
