Tom Hayden is trying to give Jerry Brown a guilt trip. The “Chicago Seven” activist who stormed the 1968 Democratic National Convention and later married Jane Fonda has asked the California governor to consider his own dog, Sutter, before repealing the state law that lengthened the amount of time animal shelters must hold stray and [...]
Does your dog match your drapes? It’s not a question many of us are ever asked, and if we were, we’d no doubt respond, ‘who cares?’ Not surprisingly, staff at Baldwin Park shelter, just east of Los Angeles, California, were incredulous when a gorgeous eight-month-old black-and-white chihuahua was surrendered at the shelter as his owner [...]
A suspect is in custody after barricading himself inside an Elk Grove, California home Monday night and injuring a police dog that was attempting to detain him. According to Elk Grove, California Police Officer Chris Trim, a SWAT team and hostage negotiators were called on scene (though thankfully, there weren’t any hostages). Police then fired [...]
A Brooklyn, New York artist who has sparked outrage for killing a dog for a film, recently received two other commissions from San Francisco, California in addition to the $750,000 Central Subway contract he was awarded in June. But all his projects are about to be put on hold. In 2010, Tom Otterness won a [...]
A California couple have been charged with animal cruelty after carrying out a DIY amputation on their pet dog after he was hit by a car. Alberto Castaneda, 51, and Maria Banuelos, 59, were arrested after animal control officers found their one-year-old black Lab mix in terrible condition. The dog had part of his left [...]
It’s been eight months since Sharalyn Cooper has seen Fadidle, her 2-year-old miniature Pinscher, but on Saturday, she held the tiny animal, with its “bat ears” quivering, to her chest and cried. The two were reunited at Utah’s Salt Lake International Airport after the dog turned up in San Diego, California. “It’s wonderful,” she said, [...]
Kimberly Nizato, a Bellflower, California resident accused of nearly starving her dog to death, was sentenced Monday to a misdemeanor count of animal cruelty. Defense attorney Andrew Stein successfully argued to Judge Robert J. Higa that the District Attorney Office’s case did not meet the standard for a felony conviction. Higa sentenced the 27-year-old to [...]
