A day after a Florida woman was hit and killed by an alleged drunk driver while walking her dog, Barney, the frightened canine was found paddling in the Gulf of Mexico by a kayaker, miles away from the scene of the accident, a local newspaper reported. The Florida Herald-Tribune reports that Barney, a Hungarian Viszla, [...]
MIAMI — Franky the drug dog’s supersensitive nose is at the heart of a question being put to the U.S. Supreme Court: Does a police dog’s sniff outside a house give officers the right to get a search warrant for illegal drugs, or is the sniff an unconstitutional search? Florida’s highest state court has said [...]
Palm Beach County, Florida pet owners must now unchain their animals and remove them from tight outdoor cages under a sweeping new law enacting some of Florida’s toughest animal-care measures. The controversial law, which passed in March, prohibits tethering animals at any hour — a step up from the previous daytime ban. Dogs still can [...]
Gary Murphy says he doesn’t consider himself a hero. His dog however, probably thinks differently About 4 p.m. Thursday, Murphy was repairing a latch on his father-in law’s boat in a marshy area in Palm City, Florida when he heard a yelp from his 11-year old West Highland White Terrier. He looked down and saw [...]
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — The wandering 65-pound Pit Bull mix might have seemed menacing to some passerby, but one woman will always remember him as her “guardian angel.” The dog, which authorities think is lost and not a stray, successfully thwarted a robbery attack on a mother and her 2-year-old son, who were held at [...]
By Eric Barton For browardpalmbeach.com Brandie the dog has received the caninie equivalent of a last-minute death row call from the governor. Rather than being put down for biting to death an off leash toy poodle, she’ll be released to her owners later this week. That’s thanks to a deal cut last night by Broward [...]
