Entries Tagged as 'Dog news and stories'

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Hopelessly lost dog gathers clues that help find her family

Here’s one for the books. To your left is a dog who went through a terrible trauma, but never gave up hope of seeing her people. Her name is Ella. Ella, meet a lucky reader. Lucky reader, meet Ella.
Ella is a Rottweiler who surely has a touch of Good Dog, Carl in her. According to [...]

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Man bites dog

“When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.”
– John B. Bogart, New York Sun editor of long, long ago
I was thrilled when I read the above quote. I had been wanting to write about something I read in [...]

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

2 resort areas ban 2 "bad" old dogs

See that panting bit of fluff on the left? His name is Gizmo. And he has a bounty on his head. (Actually, does he even have a head? Looks to us like he’s just one piece.) If he’s ever seen in Aspen, Colo., again, it’s curtains for the 13-year-old canine.
You see, Gizmo has been in [...]

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Sewage sniffing dogs: Oh we are SO jealous!

A lot of dogs are jealous of us canine staffers of Dog Daily News. They think we have great jobs, and except when Zulu starts flipping out on deadline and we have to restrain him from throwing his computer through the window, we really do.
But this morning while perusing the Detroit Free Press, we happened [...]

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Dog yoga hits Manhattan (Lord help us)

This “best friend” thing has gone too far. It was great when people just hugged their dogs, or confided in them, or took them on vacation. But now the love of our humans has turned us dogs into glorified yoga props.
A story on NBC New York features a twisted yoga class called “Dog-a.” And as [...]

Monday, September 21st, 2009

It's National Dog Week!

Dogs, it’s time to strip off your leash and enjoy life! Your people should be cooking steak and chicken for you all week. They should be taking you to work with them. They should be letting you sleep on their beds, even if you kind of smell.
My new online friend, Zipper Dog, told me about [...]

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

NY dog uses Moammar Ghadafi's red carpet as toilet

Maggie the Boxer was out on a stroll this weekend when she was struck by the urge to empty her bladder a bit. The urge happened to hit as she was passing by the Libyan Mission, where a red carpet was rolled out for Libyan leader Moammar Ghadafi, according to a story in the NY [...]

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Former Vick dog, Sweet Jasmine, hit by car and killed

Sweet Jasmine, one of the dogs rescued from Michael Vick’s vast dogfighting ring, has died after being hit by a car, a report in the Baltimore Sun says.
Sweet Jasmine rose to fame in late 2008 when she was chosen as the “cover girl” for Sports Illustrated’s fabulous story on Vick’s dogs. Writer Jim Gorant described [...]

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Jessica Simpson starting to give up hope of finding Daisy

It looks like Jessica Simpson is getting realistic about the chances of finding her beloved Malti-Poo, Daisy, after a coyote snatched the dog away in front of a horrified Jessica on Monday.
According to TMZ, sources close to the singer say she has exhausted every option for finding her 5-year-old dog. She enlisted the help of [...]

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Another dog poo story

It’s a shame when dogs can’t go to the bathroom on a grassy patch in front of their own homes without fearing that their people will get slapped with a hefty ticket if they don’t dash over immediately to clean it up.
A pregnant — in fact, overdue — woman in NY got a  $250 ticket [...]