Showing 108 posts from July 2009
The Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks will be meeting Thursday with a group of dog owners and other concerned citizens to discuss off-leash areas and fenced dog runs in Patterson Park.
The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the General Wolfe Middle School, Wolfe and Gough Streets.
The City Council approved a bill in May to [...]
Michael Vick, after serving 18 months for operating a dogfighting ring, was conditionally reinstated to the NFL today.
Vick can immediately take part in preseason practices, workouts and meetings and can play in the final two preseason games — if he can find a team that will sign him.
A number of teams have already said they [...]
A Brazilian company called Petsmiling — and you’ll understand the smiling part in a second — has created a new toy for dogs: a sex doll.
Complete with a functioning female sex organ, the Doggie Lover Doll, was introduced at a pet expo in South America and will be hitting the market soon.
“I had the idea [...]
One family’s experience with “canine disarming” — a controversial last resort for dogs who haven’t been able to lick the biting habit — was the subject of a first person account in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times.
Dog owner Diane R. Krieger wrote about her dog, Cotton, a six-year-old American Eskimo dog who even ”Dog Whisperer” Cesar Millan [...]
About 200 children in east London were given pedometers to automatically count how many steps they walked and ran each day as part of a research study.
But when the researchers at Mile End Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine reviewed the results, they couldn’t figure out why some of the fat kids could be so [...]
