Roadside Encounters: Charles the mayor
Name: Charles Edwards AKA: “The mayor of NoDa” Age: 58 Encountered: At the Smelly Cat Coffee House in Charlotte Backstory: Charles is a fixture in Charlotte’s NoDa district, where he has lived all his...
View ArticleSuspicious meatballs found in San Francisco
For the second time in less than a year, someone is scattering what are suspected to be poisoned meatballs in a San Francisco neighborhood in an apparent attempt to murder dogs. A San Francisco animal...
View ArticleRomo, that 150-pound doggie in the window, is leaving D.C. and moving to the...
One of Washington, D.C.’s most revered landmarks is moving to the suburbs of Virginia. It’s not the Washington Monument, or the Lincoln Memorial; it’s Romo — a 150-pound bull mastiff and pit bull mix...
View ArticleA neighborhood reunites with a former stray
If you’re going to be a stray dog, you might want to be one in Oak Brook, Ill. It’s one of Chicago’s wealthiest suburbs — the kind of place with well-manicured lawns to pee on, porches and gazebos...
View ArticleA party in the Bay of Dogs
The townhouse community in which I live is divided into bays. On my bay — Bay 8 — there are 20 housing units. There are two or three children. And there are 27 dogs. (Let me repeat that for your...
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