Dog Daily News

The best canine news and features, paw-picked by our staff of intrepid news hounds

How would you like to be feeling all smart, like “I am a dog and I am using a computer and I am so cool because I am on the staff of this great website and my way-smart brain is practically bursting out of my head,” and come across a headline like this:

Study: Wolves beat dogs when it comes to logic

Oh fine, another story about how smart are distant fuzzy cuzzies are. But it gets worse. Look at the subtitle:

In experiments, dogs followed human clues despite seeing better solution

So in one headline on msnbc, we dogs have been reduced to a bunch of driveling, mush-brained, human-worshiping morons. And the article compares us more than once with human infants, who do just about everything based on human input. Infants? Hello? We have jobs! In fact, our staff was going to sit down and write a strong letter to the editor about this, but then our humans came into the office to take us for walks, and we couldn’t take our eyes off them, and we listened to their every utterance and watched their every move,  and suddenly we forgot what we were so intent on doing. Huh, in fact, I still can’t remember. Go figure.

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What is going on with people collecting dogs like some people collect bottlecaps? We found two distressing stories today about situations where dogs were so overcrowded and malnourished that they were killing and eating each other in order to survive.

In Ohio, dozens of dogs were found in the home of an elderly couple. Canine cannibalism was rampant. “Dogs were eating dogs just to stay alive,” the head of the local animal shelter told the Zanesville Times Recorder. “The home is caked, literally caked in urine and feces as was the garage and outside of the home. I’ve just never in my life seen anything so terrible. It was indescribable horror.” Tragically, most of the dogs have been euthanized because of their condition.

In Temecula, Calif., a man who had been housing hundreds of feral dogs and cats in and around his mobile home has entered a guilty plea to three charges of animal cruelty, reports the Associated Press. Authorities witnessed a case of canine cannibalism when inspecting the property. As with the Ohio case, they euthanized more than 100 dogs and cats. They also found more than 200 dead cats and dogs decomposing in trash bags.

How can this happen? How can people not know what their neighbors are doing? I guess all we have to do is ask the neighbors of Phillip and Nancy Garrido. We don’t want to think about this anymore.

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And now on a much lighter note (our staff can only stand so much tragedy), have you ever seen a dog and celeb look more alike than these two?

Thank you to the amusing website, Totally Looks Like, for this note of much-needed levity.