Click to join our Facebook Fan Page and follow us on Twitter! From Associated Press NAPERVILLE, Ill. — Firefighters in the Chicago suburb of Naperville are still talking about one of their strangest rescue missions. It involved a small dog who became wedged in its owner’s mechanized recliner chair. The firefighters who responded to the [...]
By Fran Spielman City Hall Reporter Chicago, Illinois — A proposal to limit Chicagoans to five dogs-per-household would turn responsible owners into criminals and force them to choose between between “family members,” critics charged today. Over the last 15 years, aldermen have made at least four attempts to slap a ceiling on the number of [...]
By Martha Rosenberg For AlterNet CHICAGO, IL — The dog-fighting ring in a Chicago suburb involved nobody famous; its greatest impact was likely on the children attending a day-care center next door. Not so big a story for the national media, even as it touches on a case currently before the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, another [...]
By ANDREW GREINER for NBC Chicago Benny looked like a goner. The 8-year-old boxer collapsed at the Biscuits and Bows pet grooming facility in Palatine. He had no pulse and he wasn’t breathing. But thanks to a quick thinking pet massage therapist the pooch will be just fine, according to the Daily Herald. Laurie Kay [...]
From The Chicago Sun-Times Cook County Sheriff’s police have arrested three people allegedly involved in a dogfighting ring based at a home that also serves as a daycare facility in west suburban Maywood. The sheriff’s department Animal Crimes Unit found a dog with its eye ripped out, a dog with a leg twisted backward and [...]
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin teenager using a classic excuse for evading schoolwork missed a class trip to Peru despite his tale being true: The dog ate his passport. Officials at Chicago’s O’Hare airport told 17-year-old Jon Meier the chewed-on document was fine, but authorities in Miami rejected it and wouldn’t let him [...]
CHICAGO – Authorities have removed as many as 70 puppies from a home on Chicago’s South Side, where police say some animals were stuffed into bird cages and living without food and water. Agents with the Cook County Sheriff’s Police and the U.S. Department of Agriculture raided the alleged puppy mill on Tuesday after undercover [...]
