Showing 108 posts from July 2009
A World War II veteran who was held for a year in a Nazi prisoner camp has made it his mission to help supply wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with service dogs.
Irwin Stovroff, the subject of a recent Fox News report, has raised nearly $2 million dollars to help train and match up service [...]
It started with a chicken sandwich, offered to a stray dog on the streets of Islamabad.
What happened next was recounted in Washington Post piece yesterday by correspondent Pamela Constable, who took the dog into her home and cared for it while reporting from Pakistan and Afghanistan.
“I almost missed her at first, a small dusty dog curled [...]
Doreen Houseman is headed back to court to gain custody of Dexter, the pug that a New Jersey court awarded to her ex-husband, deeming the dog merely another piece of property.
Today, a second trial beings on the custody of the nearly six-year-old dog, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
In March, a three-judge appeals panel ordered the new trial, [...]
An unwanted pit bull who was thrown off a bridge and into the Ohio River survived the 80 foot drop and was showing no ill effects other than a swollen belly.
Now Sunny, as she’s been dubbed, is temporarily lodging with Kelsey Westbrook, a server at a nearby Joe’s Crab Shack, who was one of those who coaxed [...]
The baby in Kentucky who was injured when dragged outside by the family dog is slowly improving, and his condition has been upgraded to critical.
Alexander James Smith, A.J. for short, was pulled from his bassinet, which makes more sense the original reports that he was removed from his crib, by the family dog, Dakota, at [...]
