Serial Killer Targeting Houston Pit Bulls?
HOUSTON, TEXAS — Seven dead dogs were found in Houston’s Mykawa district on January 16, 2012. Six of them were pit bulls. One dog, had recently returned from being spayed by rescue group Backstreet Brutality Relief and Rescue (BBRR). Another pit bull was found Saturday inside a brand new dog crate. He had just been […]
Woman Shoots At Dog, Accidentally Kills Husband
A family was grieving Monday after a Texas woman accidentally shot and killed her husband while trying to fend off a Pit Bull that threatened their grandchildren. Betty Walker and Robert Walker Sr., of Houston, Texas were visiting their son’s Jackson, Mississippi home Friday when a neighbor’s eight-month-old Pit Bull named Cocaine jumped over the […]
Houston, Texas Tops The List For Dogs Biting Mail Deliverers
“Through rain, through sleet, through DOG BITES?!” If you’re a mail delivery person in Houston, Texas, congratulations, your city has just won the dubious distinction of being the nation’s leader in dog bites on Postal Service letter carriers. Statistics released this week by the U.S. Postal Service showed that 62 mail delivery people were attacked […]
Springtime Dangers for Dogs
Click to join our Facebook Fan Page and follow us on Twitter! From PawNation April showers bring flowers for sniffing, long walks in the neighborhood and afternoon naps on the lawns. But before you let your pet leap into spring, make sure you’re keeping your dogs and cats safe from these seasonal health hazards: Click […]
Elephants Save Stray Houston Pit Bull
Click to join our Facebook Fan Page and follow us on Twitter! From Bad Rap Houston residents who’d like to adopt a pit bull still can’t rescue a friend from local shelter: the Houston SPCA is still holding to it’s no-adopt policy, which means literally thousands of beautiful homeless pit bulls die in the shelter […]
Picked From A Lineup, On A Whiff Of Evidence
By John Schwartz For The New York Times HOUSTON — A dog’s sniff helped put Curvis Bickham in jail for eight months. Now that the case against him has been dropped, he wants to tell the world that the investigative technique that justified his arrest smells to high heaven. The police told Mr. Bickham they […]
Woman Wounded Accidentally When Cop Shoots At Dog
Okay, the Pit Bull hysteria is really getting out of hand. We really need a full-fledged, national pit bull education campaign. — Kenn From The Associated Press LA MARQUE, Texas — A police officer wounded a woman accidentally while trying to shoot a pit bull she saw jumping on a group of people. The incident […]