Animal Companions
The 52-year-old blind victim said she was threatened before being choked and falling down a flight of stairs. Officers said that after witnessing the assault, the woman’s seeing-eye dog fought off the attacker. She told them that once the home was secure, the dog used a specially manufactured device to phone police and alert them.
...50-year-old [man] was opening a bag of coffee with a knife... wife asked him a question... turned to her... a cat ran under his feet and he fell with the knife in his hand... steak knife went about an inch into [his] chest... treated at a hospital and police say he will be fine. [Cat thinks: FAIL!]
According to Tate, 7-year-old Gia Conner had been for some time looking on the internet for a dog and had typed “Washington County” in a search engine and up came the Washington County SPCA site — and its little dog, Toto, too.
When her aunt, Jacque Dwyer, saw Toto was not in Washington County, Penn., but Washington County, Okla., she was unfazed.
A beloved squirrel monkey known as Banana Sam was returned scared but safe to the San Francisco Zoo on Saturday night, two days after he was taken. ... The monkey was found by a bystander who saw him come out of the bushes. "He managed to coax the monkey into his backpack" ...
A cat that went missing in New Mexico while on a trip with a man bicycling across the country to raise money for animal shelters has been found. Twenty-one-year-old Ted Brady and his kitten, Pikachu, had been on a two-month bike trip that began Oct. 19 in Bartlesville, Okla.
Authorities have charged a New Jersey woman with animal cruelty after her dog hanged itself in her minivan while the family ate dinner at a Chinese restaurant. ... apparently became excited during the family's absence and wrapped the leash around the headrest.
Navy SEAL U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Jon T. Tumilson was among the 30 American troops killed August 6 when Taliban insurgents downed their Chinook helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade. At his funeral in Iowa, his dog Hawkeye paid his last respects, walking up to the casket, lying down in front of it, and heaving a sigh.
On the Constitutional rights front, one has to wonder why no one in the Denver news media has explored the subjects of whether it's lawful for law enforcement agents to (1) step foot on someone's property without a warrant and (2) seize someone's private property (livestock) based solely upon an anonymous phone call to a hotline that pays up to $2,000 for tips.
hounded and threatened with massive fines by agents from the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Bell had to go face to face with her hare-brained local sheriff. ... hounded and threatened with massive fines by agents from the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Bell had to go face to face with her hare-brained local sheriff. ...
what is being called an "animal hoarding" case involving a reported Washington County SPCA employee... total of 81 dogs and cats were seized.... "a lack of clean ingestible water in the recent 100-plus degree temperatures...." "unbearable odor of 'dead animals', urine and feces..."
Osage County officials seized 81 cats and dogs in a Tuesday raid on the home of an alleged animal hoarder. ... "a bunch of cats and dogs in cages outside." ... many did not have water and most of the animals had upper respiratory infections. ... "We also found three horses had minor problems with their hooves.... Most of the cats and dogs were in cages with wire bottoms, one kitten had its eyes matted shut and a lot didn't have water." ... eight dogs were left at the residence because they were not in a condition that they could be seized. ... "You can't leave animals chained in pens like that in this heat.... Most of the water bowls were bone dry and some had dust in them."
Trouble, the pampered pooch that Leona Helmsley bequeathed $12 million to, died in luxury at age 12.
A family lawyer who devoted most of her time outside of work to caring for feral cats, 70 to 80 at one time, in her Oakland, Calif. home is entitled to much of her claimed $12,068 in cat care expenses as a charitable deduction on her 2004 income taxes, according to a recent Tax Court case. Basically, the case says that unreimbursed volunteer expenses, to the extent they are incidental to charitable work for a qualified charity and are properly substantiated, are deductible.
...10-year-old boy... said the alligator ran at him, so he started hitting it with sticks and jumped on its back... dragged the alligator home and suffered only minor scratches on his hands and arms... officers let [him] off with a stern talk but no charges...
A puppy crawled home with two broken legs after being thrown high into the air by a tornado that ripped through Alabama.... "This is probably the most dramatic we've seen as far as an injury in an animal that's survived this long," said Phil Doster at Birmingham Jefferson County Animal Control shelter, who is caring for Mason following surgery. The shelter has dealt with hundreds of pets hurt by the storms....
An animal welfare group is investigating the treatment of a panhandling dog often seen holding a pipe in its mouth for hours outside New York City's professional baseball stadiums.
Those leaving the Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter these days are either overjoyed after finding their pets lost when tornadoes ravaged the region or heartbroken and often moved to tears when they don't.
ELGIN, SC (WIS) - A missing 2-year-old boy in Elgin was found Saturday morning after Kershaw County deputies say the family dog kept him warm and safe all night. Sheriff Jim Matthews said 22-month-old Tyler Jacobson was reunited with his family after he was found across the street behind a neighbor's home when someone reported hearing crying in the area.
Against all the odds, the dog appears to have survived by living in a partially submerged house that had been swept out to sea.
Hungry, hurt and separated from owners who are either dead or in evacuation centres, hundreds of family pets are struggling to survive in the desolation of Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeast coast. Among the many rescue teams sent from around the world to search for survivors and bodies after Japan's worst natural disaster for nearly a century, a handful of specialised animal rescue groups have also been at work.
With appearances on Oprah and across the U.S. it has certainly been an eventful first year for Einstein, the world's smallest horse, as he approaches the big day.
booked this week into the Rogers County Jail for animal cruelty complaints for neglecting the dogs and housing them in unsanitary and unsafe conditions... Aside from the nine up for adoption, five dogs are nursing and in foster care at an Owasso residence, seven are unavailable for adoption and about eight "wild and agressive" dogs that are still believed to be living underneath the residence... dog feces was as much as a foot deep in some areas. "... It was plainly clear that nobody had taken care of these animals for quite some time..."
Fire destroyed 24-year-old Terisa Acevedo's apartment nearly one month ago. She was told that everything was gone, including her 2-year-old Dachshund named Lola.
The researchers found that owning and walking the dogs, increased the chances of meeting federal benchmarks on physical activity by 34%, for the dog owners. However, less than half the number of Americans are able to meet the recommended levels of physical exercise.
Dog owners who walk their dogs are 34 percent more likely than others to meet federal physical activity benchmarks, according to new research.
Graham Waspe's guide dog is not just aiding his owner to carry out everyday tasks, but also helping his previous one to get around in Stowmarket, Suffolk.
foot and a half of animal feces... took officials more than two hours to wade through the muck in the living room and upstairs before they could say they'd found all the living animals --- more than 18 mixed-breed dogs... freezer full of about 15 carcasses... Neighbors have watched for years as the homeowner lived out of her car instead of her home.... [How do YEARS go by with "smell is unbearable in the summer"??]
On Sunday morning, an animal control officer looked into the bin and discovered that the one pup somehow survived. "He was just as healthy as could be...."
A Columbus firefighter admits that he took his two dogs to the basement, tied them up and blasted them with a rifle so he and a girlfriend could vacation without paying to board the animals. "He said chunks of concrete were flying everywhere...." 90 days in jail, pay $4,500 to cover the cost of his investigation and serve five years' probation.... [sick]
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