For your Peru-sal: A new law in Lima
A neighborhood in Peru’s capital has passed a law prohibiting families living in apartments from having more than one dog and limiting people in houses to two. According to an order published in the...
View ArticlePoisoned meat kills two dogs in Virginia
Investigators in Virginia are looking for the person who threw poison-spiked meatballs into the yards of at least three homes in Fairfax County, killing two dogs and making a third ill. One of the...
View ArticleRoadside 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 ArticleToting the load: It’s poop bag guy
In the best of all possible worlds, I would have a poop valet. On our walks around the neighborhood, he would follow a few steps behind Ace and me, keeping quiet, and waiting to spring into action when...
View ArticlePoisoned meatballs sicken dogs in Denver
Poisoned meatballs have been found in the yards of at least three Denver homes and have made at least two dogs seriously ill. Two neighbors reported their dogs had become violently sick. One neighbor,...
View ArticleLA neighborhood pays tribute to Annie
For years, a husky mix named Annie quietly watched the world go by, lying beneath a tree in front of an apartment complex in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles. A neighborhood fixture, she...
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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