Showing 104 posts from December 2008
The rural North Texas town of Ferris — about 20 miles south of Dallas — has approved a policy that allows authorities to shoot “wild” roaming dogs.
Ferris City Manager David Chavez said the Ellis County town approved the policy because it was becoming a dumping ground for unwanted pets. People drive out to the country to release pets they no longer [...]
KSL-TV in Salt Lake City says it has heard from a woman who thinks the dog caught by surveillance cameras shoplifting a rawhide bone in a Utah supermarket is hers — a Siberian Husky named Balto who she lost four months ago at a motel in Oregon.
The unidentified Siberian Husky entered Smith’s Food and Drug [...]
Darn, this would have made a good Christmas present.
Dozens of volunteers dropped their holiday plans to rescue about 80 puppy mill dogs in Missouri who probably otherwise wouldn’t have made it to the new year.
Now, the National Mill Dog Rescue Network is trying to find homes for all the dogs.
The network was contacted shortly before Christmas by a breeder in Missouri — a state known [...]
The New Jersey homeowner who found this creature might not have been sure what species had taken refuge in his garage.
It’s fur was so badly matted it could barely move.
The case was reported to the Associated Humane Societies in northern New Jersey, which dispatched an ambulance and brought the neglected dog to its medical facility in Newark.
After some [...]
