NEW YORK— The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) issued a statement from President and CEO Ed Sayres prompted by today’s euthanasia of Oreo, a victim of animal cruelty: On June 18th, a one-year old Pit Bull Mix named Oreo was thrown off a 6th floor Brooklyn roof top by [...]

We all have opinions about spoiling our dogs. I agree with some points of the article, but not everything. Yes, much of what we do for our dogs, we are really doing for ourselves. But if it means more quality time with the pooches than isn’t it a good thing? And that’s really what our [...]

A very sad, sobering reminder at how short our loyal dogs lives really are. – Kenn From The New York Daily News Taz, the last active duty member of the NYPD K-9 unit to have worked at Ground Zero after 9/11, has died of cardiac arrest. “He was the best partner I ever had,” heartbroken [...]

I am at a loss for words. – Kenn From the ASPCA NEW YORK — One of the most barbaric forms of animal cruelty has an underbelly which for years has remained literally hidden in darkness: “Trunking” is dog fighting’s ugly secret. “It’s just that taboo,” Tio Hardiman, a Chicago-based, dog fighting consultant to the [...]

Who knew heroin use was a major problem in high schools today? But as always, leave it to our furry friends to come to the rescue! – Kenn By Stacey Altherr for Newsday.com Concerns about heroin use among high school students in Smithtown have prompted school district administrators there to talk to Suffolk County police [...]

We interrupt your regularly scheduled viewing to bring you our very first Dog Files Dispatch. Our way of getting you timely info about news and currents events. This past weekend the Dog Files attended the Pet Adoptathon at the North Shore Animal League in Long Island. This is a huge adoption drive in its fifteenth year and [...]

This comes from silive.com They didn’t have names, they no longer had a home, and this afternoon they no longer had each other. Two brown-coated boxer dogs, alone on an isolated stretch of Richmond Terrace in Mariners Harbor, likely strayed into traffic. One animal was struck and killed; the other, loyal to its companion, defied vehicles [...]

Bentley does not seem too concerned following his first adventure behind the wheel. Fortunately, there were no injuries. Pace for News Bentley does not seem too concerned following his first adventure behind the wheel. Fortunately, there were no injuries. A dog left in his master’s idling van just wouldn’t stay in his barking space – [...]