Pet Monologues

Irving council approves ban on unattended tethered dogs.

Owners of unattended, chained pets to receive Class C misdemeanors. Read the rest of this entry »

Chapter 9: The stories that nourish a newspaper.
By John Armstrong

[This is the ninth of 14 excerpts, running Tuesdays and Thursdays, from John Armstrong's memoir of the working life: Wages.]

When a cement truck lost its brakes on a hill and ploughed through someone’s backyard, you needed the parents and relatives of the dead and wounded, the name of the driver, the owner of the company, the neighbours (to fill out the background and describe the terror they faced daily with Big Trucks roaring though their neighbourhood) and someone from government licensing to comment on why he and his department hadn’t checked this truck’s brakes.

It was also important to get the Opposition critic for that department who would describe how the government had failed so tragically in this case, despite his repeated warnings that such a disaster was coming, and how his party would do things differently if they were in office….

The same was true of any local tragedy whether it was the man who hacked up his wife and mailed her postage due to her parents or an immigrant woman who spoke and read no English and bled to death in the emergency room because she couldn’t fill out the admittance papers. Read the rest of this entry »

Protecting pets from domestic abuse.

States extend abuser protection to pets—WISCONSIN—Following the State of Maine, Wisconsin lawmakers have introduced legislation that would extend an abused person protection order to include pets. Read the rest of this entry »

Warning: Violence. Adult language.

Man, I saw this guy get chomped by a fucking hippo dude. Man, this guy was getting eaten alive man. No, I wasn’t there dog, I saw it on t.v. It was on the Discovery Channel bro. This guy was in this canoe thing right and he’s rowing along, minding his own business, when all of a sudden, a huge fucking hippopotamus comes exploding out of the water!

The dude gets sucked into the jaws of this fucking hippo man and the hippo is like munch, munch, munch on the dude, dude! It was crazy man. No, I didn’t see it happen like that exactly man. It was like a whatchamacallit, a, ahhhh, like when those actor people act like what happened in real life man. What is that shit called??? Oh yeah, a reenactment. Right..renac, a rena, a shit, you know, anyways, fucking hippo was chowing down on this dude and then it spits the guy out of its jaws man. Read the rest of this entry »

All Austin, TX, dogs could be declared dangerous!

While this is just for Austin, there is a lot of discussion going on today about this issue. Here is a great breakdown from a legal mind: Read the rest of this entry »

Knock out animal fighting video contest.

Humane Society (HSUS) has contest. The votes are in! Read the rest of this entry »

Dog behavior training: aggression, biting, guarding problems.

Handling an Aggressive Dog

Aggression is probably the most common reason an otherwise healthy dog is euthanized (put to sleep). Read the rest of this entry »

I had a street dog chase me for what seemed like miles. Wanna hear my story?? I was a teenager at the time, I was selling cookies and candy in the streets of Queens to make a living. Each box I sold I got a buck. That’s what I did for money back then.

I was going door to door, house to house, selling these boxes of goodies. I saw an alleyway and decided to cut through it in order to get to the next block quicker. And that’s when it happened. A dog, a big German Shepard, on the other side of a fence, was staring at me. I minded my own business but then the dog started growling and then barking at me. So, I started walking a bit faster to avoid a problem. Just as I move quicker, the damn dog runs and jumps completely over the fence. I couldn’t believe it.

I bolted off running as fast as I could. All the time holding my box of candy. The dog started gaining on me so I threw the box at the dog. I missed him. I was running straight for a fence and just as I got to the fence, I literally dove over it, instead of climbing over it. I didn’t have time with the dog closing in on my ass. The dog grabbed my sneaker and started thrashing my foot back and forth. I’m dangling in the air on the opposite side of the fence screaming my head off. Read the rest of this entry »

Horse attacked with ax. $2,500 reward.

Reward Offered in Robertson County, Tenn. Horse Cruelty Case. Read the rest of this entry »

Interpreting dog barks and noise.

Body language is generally a silent method of communication (with the exception of the play bow), but dogs use their voices, too. Read the rest of this entry »