Showing 118 posts from March 2009
Every once in a while an invention comes along that seems quite brilliant, makes life easier for a while then — with more frequent use — turns out to be more trouble than its worth.
Such, I think, is the case with the retractable leash.
After one brush with death — fortunately not my own — and [...]
Anne Arundel County police shot and killed what they described as a pit bull after the dog ran into an Edgewater, Maryland home and bit a couple and their teenage son.
Officer said a man was walking into his home Tuesday evening when a pit bull ran up and bit him on the face, then ran into the [...]
A parrot has been honored in Denver for helping to save the life of a toddler choking on her breakfast.
Megan Howard was baby-sitting in her home in November when she heard her bird — a Quaker parrot named Willie — flapping his wings and repeating the words “Mama, baby.”
By the time she rushed to the kitchen, [...]
Nobody has busted out of the Idaho Correctional Center in more than 20 years, and prison officials say the credit goes to the Dirty Two Dozen — a team of snarling guard dogs that patrol the perimeter.
Their names sound friendly enough – Cookie, Bongo and Chi Chi among them — but the dogs, they say, are a mean lot, [...]
There’s a hefty penalty to be paid if your dog takes an uncollected dump on this fair city.
Unfortunately, there is no such recourse when the city dumps on dog owners.
According to the Baltimore Sun, the City Council in January passed a bill increasing the fines for both unleashed dogs and unscooped poop to $1,000.
That it has [...]
