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“Highway,” at last, has a smooth road ahead.
The stray who survived for more than a year surrounded by converging freeways east of downtown Fort Worth now belongs to a former employee of the Humane Society of North Texas who helped rescue her 18 months ago. He adopted her last week.
“She’s jumping around, wagging her tail, [...]
The news report above is one that critics of the Humane Society of the United States want you to see — so much so that they’ve launched a campaign to get it placed on as many websites as possible.
It appears here not as part of that campaign, and not because it’s good investigative reporting — [...]
Russian child protection officers have removed a five-year-old girl from a home where she was treated like a dog, and acted like one.
The child barked and lapped up food like a dog, police said on Wednesday.
The girl was found living with relatives and a large number of cats and dogs in a filthy apartment in the Eastern [...]
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison is hoping to find a way to avoid having his it bull, Patron, put down.
The dog bit Harrison’s 2-year-old son, James Harrison III, last Wednesday, and since then has been lodged at Animal Control of McKee’s Rocks, where Harrison originally said he would have him euthanized after a mandatory 10-day quarantine.
The dog became [...]
Talk about cutting out the middleman. A stray dog nosed her way through a propped open door and into a TV news studio in rural Missouri, and ended up appearing on the morning newscast.
And it wasn’t even “Pet of the Week” day.
KRCG, a TV station in rural Missouri, reports that the well-behaved, mild-mannered mixed breed [...]
