Showing 30 posts tagged with "died"
Taz — the last New York City police dog called into service after 9/11 that was still on the job — has died.
The German shepherd, almost 2 years old when he joined other K-9s searching for survivors and cadavers at the World Trade Center, died of cardiac arrest last Sunday, the police department said.
The New York Times noted [...]
Sweet Jasmine, the former Michael Vick dog taken in by the Baltimores rescue group, Recycled Love, was hit by a car last month and killed.
The pit bull that made the cover of Sports Illustrated last year was living in the suburbs with Catalina Stirling, president of Recycled Love. Jasmine was one of three Vick dogs [...]
I was sad to hear that Chanel, the world's oldest dog, died at the age of 21 on Friday (147 in dog years). She was a wiry-haired dachshund that, as she aged, developed cataracts and became sensitive to cold weather. She appeared on the Today show last spring and was presented with a certificate showing her age.
She will be in the Guiness World Records, 2010 edition coming out in October.
Chanel, the wiry-haired dachshund who held the Guinness World Record for oldest dog, died Friday, People Pets reports.
Chanel was 21, according to her owners, Karl and Denice Shaughnessy.
Chanel gained notoriety this past spring after an appearance on the Today show where she was presented with an official certificate as the world’s oldest living pooch.
She will be [...]
Poet Ken Wolman’s dog, Cid, died Tuesday.
He wrote a poem about him Wednesday.
We’re publishing it here, with his permission, Thursday.
Wolman lives in central New Jersey.
SOBBING UNCONTROLLABLY IN PUBLIC PLACES”
(after a title by John Engman)
I started to write a love poem or
some bullshit variant of a love poem but then
the dog got sick and died the same [...]
