Critics Muzzle Proposal To Limit Number Of Dogs Per Household
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 […]
Dog-Fighting Ring Doubles as a Day-Care Center
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 […]
Dog Groomers Use CPR to Rescue Pooch
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 […]
Police Raid Dogfighting Ring At Daycare Home In Suburban Chicago
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 […]
Dog Eats Passport, Cancels Wisconsin Boy's Trip To Peru
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 […]
Nearly 70 Dogs Rescued From Alleged Puppy Mill
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 […]