Showing 21 posts from November 2009
Some time back I wrote a post about a dog that survived in the grill of a car after being hit. Here are pictures of one lucky coyote. Thanks to Beth for sending them. Daniel East and his sister Tevyn were traveling along Interstate 80 near the Nevada-Utah border going around 75 mph when a coyote ran in front of...
Since I first wrote about Nubs in March 2008, he has become quite a celebrity. Nubs is a dog who adopted Major Brian Dennis in Iraq. He was a two-year-old German Shepherd-Border Collie mix who had been running wild before he and Major Dennis found each other. When he was a puppy, an Iraqi sliced off most of his ears...
A Lithuanian man, 22-year old Svajunas Beniukas, has been arrested and charged with animal cruelty after internet users identified him from the video he posted on line. The video shows him holding a little brown dog, Pipiras, and laughing as his friend records it on his mobile phone. He checks to make sure no one is watching, jokes about dogs...
Just waiting to be released
Films for children have come a long way, thanks to Pixar, from the “Snow White” and “Bambi” films of my childhood. I know those are supposed to be children’s classics, but I found them disturbing when I saw them as a child. I know some of you share my feelings about some of the Disney films of the past. Not...
