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My posting of an Atlanta TV station’s “expose” of the Humane Society of the United States — and my labeling of it as shabby journalism — has led to the predictable spate of comments from HSUS-haters.
The WSB-TV report had been removed from the station’s website, and from YouTube as well, after complaints from the HSUS that [...]
A Lab mix rescued from a mountain pass in Washington two months ago helped rescue another stray stranded near the same spot.
Blewett was rescued — in the true meaning of the word — back in March from Blewett Pass, where he was spotted huddling in the snow.
Several attempts to catch him had failed. The dog would take food, but wouldn’t [...]
A mountain lion leapt a fence and entered a residential backyard in Oregon — only to be chased off by two tiny but tenacious dogs.
Together, Rosie, a border terrier, and Chiquita, a Chihuahua, persuaded the mountain lion to head back to the hills.
Their owner, Loren Wingert, called her dogs “invincible.”
“My dogs see something in the yard, [...]
Charges could be filed against a northern California police K-9 officer whose dog died after he left it unattended while on duty.
The unnamed Alameda officer left the six-year-old Belgian Malinois unattended for more than three hours in his personal car while attending a police training exercise, police said.
When the officer returned to the vehicle he found [...]
Thanks to a quick-thinking Baltimore City police officer, and hours of medical attention from shelter workers and vets, a pit bull found set on fire Wednesday is alive today.
Whether she will be tomorrow is another question.
The young female pit bull was found in Southwest Baltimore doused with gasoline and left to burn to death. Baltimore City [...]
