Showing 31 posts tagged with "died"
Natt Nevins was a fixture among the doggie crowd of Greenwich Village, where she was rarely seen without Nikkie, her 15-year-old dachsund, at her side.
When Nikkie was diagnosed with cancer last month, Nevins told some of her many dog park friends that she couldn’t imagine life without her dog.
Last week Nevins, 74, died — just a [...]
I miss seeing this old girl at the park — a Great Dane named Bella, who I just recently heard died a couple of weeks ago.
Bella was a familiar white face at Riverside Park, where every once in a while, after standing still as a statue for minutes on end, she’d briefly break into that thundering trademark [...]
A sixth dog in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race has died — this one on a flight to Nome.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that the dog, a two year-old female on he team of musher Alan Peck, died during a turbulent flight from Shaktoolik to Nome.
The musher had scratched in Shaktoolik, and officials were picking up [...]
PETA has asked Alaskan law enforcement officials to launch a criminal investigation into the deaths of five dogs who ran in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to determine if four mushers should be charged under the state’s cruelty-to-animals law.
The PETA letter cites Alaska State Statute 11.61.140, which prohibits a person from knowingly inflicting [...]
The Iditarod death toll has risen to five.
With 20 mushers still on the 1,000-mile trail from Willow to Nome, the Anchorage Daily News reports two more dog deaths have surfaced: A 5-year-old male named Maynard in the team of Warren Palfrey died less than 20 miles from Nome late Thursday., and an, an 8-year-old male named Omen [...]
