Showing 37 posts from January 2009
Source: Ventura County Star, By Gareth W. Dodd, Correspondent, Monday, January 26, 2009
The Ojai-based National Disaster Search Dog Foundation has received a $1 million grant from the S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation to help create a national training center on 125 acres of land in Santa Paula.
The grant comes on the heels of a $1.6 million [...]
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. - Officers rescued 308 more dogs Friday from a filthy, disease-infested Skagit County kennel, bringing the total number of dogs rescued in the region in one week to more than 600.
Friday’s dog rescues were from a kennel in the 16000 block of Mountain View Road that was first raided on Thursday.
More than [...]
Source: WOWK.com, Jan 18, 2009
Officers seize another dog in poor condition.
St. Albans – The severe weather can have deadly consequences for animals, especially those kept outdoors.
Sunday afternoon St. Albans Police seized a dog from a man they say works at a Kanawha County pet shop.
But for another dog on the property help came too late.
Neighbors in one [...]
Source: NBCPhiladelphia.com, By Ted Greenberg, Jan 21, 2009
An Atlantic City man was charged Monday with animal cruelty after he dumped the body of a dog in the bay, police said.
A police officer from neighboring Absecon, N.J. found the pit bull wrapped in a trash bag after spotting a gold car leaving the scene just off [...]
Source: NWI.com, Jan 20, 2009
GARY, IN | The Gary Humane Society is investigating the death of an emaciated pit bull found frozen in a makeshift shelter during last week’s subzero weather, the agency’s director said.
Betty Clayton said she found a 1-year-old, snow-covered male dog frozen to the ground Friday afternoon in the yard of the [...]
