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Supporting viscious dog laws? Folly. Councilman now appealing for own pet? Priceless.
SIOUX CITY, IA - Councilman Aaron Rochester said Tuesday he has appealed Sioux City Animal Control’s determination that his family’s yellow lab is vicious after Saturday’s incident, which resulted in an emergency room visit and five stitches for the injured neighbor. Sioux City Police Capt. Pete Groetken said he held a hearing on Rochester’s appeal Tuesday morning [...]
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Sex offender nabs dog, demands sex or money from 17 year old
HAWTHORNE, CA - A registered sex offender who found a teenage girl’s lost dog threatened to torture her pet unless he got sex from her, police said. Alfredo Jaime Dempkey, 27, of Hawthorne, was arrested Friday night at the place where he had agreed to meet the 17 year old girl he planned to extort sex from. In an [...]
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A photographic trip down BARC’s (and Mayor White’s) Memory Lane
HOUSTON, TX - In a recent story from the Texas Watchdog (and if you haven’t seen this blog yet, you’re in for a nice surprise), reporter Rosanna Ruiz places the spotlight on how important public image is to Mayor White. Publishing email documents between White and a downtown developer obtained through a public information request, White [...]
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Dog horribly mutilated, survives
They’d seen bloodied dogs. Starving cats. Broken birds. A mangled monkey. And unyielding bestial abuse. But for animal rescuers at All the Same Wild and Tame, nothing came close to the dog they’ve named Dahlia. When a good Samaritan dropped off the golden-eyed mutt after a 400-mile journey from Mexico last month, there wasn’t a dry eye [...]
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Ohio firefighter kills dogs before vacation
COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) – Judge has given a 90-day jail sentence to an Ohio firefighter accused of killing his dogs to avoid boarding them while he went on vacation. Forty-three-year-old David Santuomo of Columbus pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of animal cruelty and one count of possession of a criminal tool — a homemade silencer he [...]
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Health
Medical breakthrough for canine osteoarthritis
Posted on 03 July 2009
CHANDLER, AZ– TR BioSurgical, LLC, announced highly encouraging results using their new medical device (bioscaffold) in canine patients with advanced osteoarthritis. The new bioscaffold is implanted in or near diseased tissue and provides a structural matrix for local repair cells, such as stem cells or fibroblasts, to attach and heal tissue by local, physiological repair [...] Continue Reading
Community
Pet therapy program inproves children’s reading skills
Posted on 30 June 2009
JEFFERSONVILLE, IN - The Clark County Red Cross is using pet therapy in a novel way. It’s using dogs as an audience for books. The Puppy Tales reading program allows children from the second to the fifth grade a chance to improve their reading and speaking skills by reading to a canine. The pet therapy portion [...] Continue Reading
Community
Noah’s Ark PAC urges Houston voters to contact candidates
Posted on 30 June 2009
HOUSTON, TX - From Noah’s Ark PAC: Noah’s Ark PAC June 29, 2009 As the last few years have shown us, the issues at Houston’s Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care will not change without strong leadership from the top. The next Mayor of Houston will have to change the culture of cruelty at BARC by making BARC [...] Continue Reading
Community
Rescued Pyrenees saves family, dies in fire
Posted on 25 June 2009
PIQUA, OH - Glenda Moss saved Jeter after an early life of abuse. Jeter paid her back Thursday, June 11. The five-year-old Great Pyrenees is credited with saving the lives of Moss and her son David, 19, by alerting them to an early morning fire at their Harney Street home in Piqua. Smelling smoke and hearing the crackle of fire, [...] Continue Reading
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Houston rescuer in the fight of his life
Posted on 25 June 2009
Kenny Waymire, a longtime animal rescuer and resident of Spring, Texas, has a difficult road ahead of him. In 1997 it was discovered that Kenny had Membranous glomerulonephritis, a disorder of the kidney. With treatment, in 1999 he went into remission. In 2007 the disorder came back. This time, treatments aren’t working. He is facing dialysis [...] Continue Reading
Community
Community rallies, brings back K-9 program
Posted on 25 June 2009
ABERDEEN, WA - A police dog that was laid off due to budget cuts has been reinstated to his job after the community rallied behind him and raised enough money to continue Aberdeen Police Department’s K-9 program. Police Chief Bob Torgerson said that $57,000 was raised. That will not only put the dog, “Nitro,” back to work [...] Continue Reading
Strange
Gonja producer supports shelter
Posted on 24 June 2009
YUCCA VALLEY, CA - An animal shelter nearly had to close its doors in these tough times until a medical marijuana dispensary came to the rescue. D.J. Ross is the co-owner of a Yucca Valley medical marijuana dispensary. As he counts the green marijuana buds, they’ve turned into a different kind of “green” for a Joshua Tree [...] Continue Reading
Community
Boxer saves family, thwarts crime-spree
Posted on 24 June 2009
OTTAWA COUNTY, OK – A family dog helped thwart a brief crime spree by two Kansas brothers in Ottawa County Monday, June 22. Jason N. Holland, 28, and Jeremy D. Holland, 30, were arrested after allegedly robbing one local woman and approaching two others under suspicious circumstances. The Holland brothers reportedly first stopped a vehicle on a [...] Continue Reading
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