This story makes me sick to my stomach. Just watch the video at end of the post showing what he did and you will agree the governor did the right thing by firing him. I just hope this state trooper has no dogs at home. If this is the kind of abuse that North Carolina [...]

The custody fight for Patrick headed to a Newark, New Jersey court Thursday morning. The one-year-old dog, who was found in a trash bin in March, is currently recovering at an animal hospital in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. But the American Humane Society, which initially took the dog, wants to take him to a shelter, [...]

Animal control officials have examined Coffee, the dog often seen panhandling outside Mets and Yankees games in New York City, and say the pooch bears “no signs of abuse or neglect.” The dog, which is typically dressed in baseball jerseys and earns $75 in a day’s work, was examined Wednesday by the American Society for [...]

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Kisha Curtis, the Newark, New Jersey woman accused of abusing and abandoning the 1-year-old Pit Bull named Patrick, appeared for the first time in Superior Court Friday morning pleading not guilty to several animal cruelty counts. Curtis, 27, was charged last month with two counts of tormenting and torturing a living creature and two counts [...]

The Dog Files is very pleased to announce our partnership with Tonic.com! Tonic.com is a site about doing good deeds. It asks people to do one act that will help a cause. Usually it’s a pretty simple act. I’m proud to say that Tonic has picked the Dog Files to be their doggie liaison. We [...]

UPDATE: The accused dog beater has been identified as an animator for DreamWorks, having worked on animal-themed films including “Kung Fu Panda,” “Shark Tale,” “Bee Movie” and “Madagascar 2″. UPDATE 2: Prosecutors now claim after he killed the dog, he carried off its body. The abuse of an animal never makes any sense. This particular [...]

He let his anger get the best of him and took it out on a neighbor’s defenseless dog. That’s what happened in Franklin Square, New York on Saturday when Jaime Sanchez, 56, tossed his neighbor’s dog into the street after he witnessed the neighbor allowing her dog to go potty on his lawn. Sanchez was [...]