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Balu, a police dog for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department in California, accidentally ingested a snoutful of the drug methamphetamine during a search.
The 4 1/2-year-old German shepherd, was rushed to an emergency veterinary clinic early Monday when he began having seizures, about two hours after a drug bust in Moorpark, KTLA reported.
During the arrest, the suspect was seen tossing two bags of drugs. Deputies found one. Balu found the second, torn one. Deputy Dean Worthy said Balu, his partner of three years, seemed fine until they got home and the dog began convulsing. He rushed the animal to the clinic for treatment.
Worthy said Balu is doing well and a full recovery is expected.
As fancy as they are getting, dog parks really only need three basic things — some space, a fence and a source of water.
Kroll Dog Park in Bakersfield, California lacks the latter, and users of the dog park have banded together to do something about it.
The only water source at Kroll is located outside the [...]
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has terminated that state’s attempt to to crack down on puppy mills, vetoing legislation that would have limited them to 50 adult dogs.
In six states that have passed puppy mill legislation this year, California is the only one where the governor has vetoed it.
The Associated Press reported that Schwarzenegger said he feared the [...]
California dogs hit the surf in Huntington Beach over the weekend for a new charity event called the Surf city Surf Dog Competition. Here (after the obligatory advertisement) is a news report on the event.
The police chief of the small California town of Maricopa has been ordered to turn in his gun after shooting and killing a family’s dog in September.
A restraining order issued Friday by the Kern County Superior Court commissioner also requires Chief Gene Fretheim to stay away from the four people whose dog he shot.
The chief says he has no [...]
