Entries Tagged as 'Dogs/Pets'
December 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
From wsbradio.com:
Animal cruelty does not get much worse. DeKalb County police are asking for the public’s help in finding who beat a dog with a sledgehammer and left the dog to die in a local park.
The male shepherd mix was found this week, wrapped in a blanket, at Murphy Candler Park off Ashford Dunwoody [...]
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July 11th, 2008 · Comments Off
From Reuters via Yahoo:
Beijing has asked hotels and restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the duration of next month’s Olympics and September’s Paralympics.
Dog is eaten not only by the large Korean community in China’s capital but is also popular in Yunnan and Guizhou restaurants.
A directive from the Beijing [...]
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March 6th, 2008 · Comments Off
From Adnkronos International:
A 70-year-old man has been sentenced by an Iranian judge to four months in jail and 30 lashes for going out on the street with his dog.
The incident took place in Shahr Rey, a suburb of Tehran when the owner of the dog was caught by a police who quickly handcuffed the man. [...]
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Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Dogs/Pets · Iran · Islamofascism · Muslim/Islam
February 12th, 2008 · Comments Off
I live in Georgia. Georgia is currently 2nd in the nation in personal bankruptcies, and 7th in home foreclosures.
So the bank foreclosed your mortgage and you need to move quickly. You’ve rented a trailer and loaded everything worth taking with you to your new rented home. The problem is that you have two cats, [...]
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Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Dogs/Pets · Money
November 16th, 2007 · Comments Off
1. Eat less
2. Don’t ask for money all the time
3. Are easier to train
4. Normally come when called
5. Never ask to drive the car
6. Don’t hang out with drug-using friends
7. Don’t smoke or drink
8. Don’t have to buy the latest fashions
9. Don’t want to wear your clothes
10. Don’t need a gazillion dollars for college, and…
11. [...]
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Tags: Dogs/Pets · Strange/Funny
November 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment
From 11Alive:
A woman jogging in the Tribble Mill Park area of Gwinnett County credited her yellow Labrador Retriever with saving her from a sexual predator, police said.
The woman was running through the park area with her dog following close behind on October 12 when a man jogged toward her, pushed her up against a tree [...]
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Tags: Crime/Law · Dogs/Pets
October 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment
They live here. You don’t.
If you don’t want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. That’s why they call it “fur”niture.
I like my dogs a lot better than I like most people.
To you, it’s a dog. To me, he/she is an adopted son/daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours, doesn’t [...]
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October 8th, 2007 · Comments Off
From 11Alive.com:
A UGA student has been arrested on charges she beat a litter of puppies to death.
The investigation is centered at the Athens-Clarke County Animal Control Center, less than a mile from the convenience store where two workers found the bodies of the puppies, huddled together in a cardboard box inside a dumpster.
Amanda Sunley said [...]
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Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Dogs/Pets · Georgia
September 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments
From nbc17.com:
A police officer is accused of burying puppies alive, officials said.
Seven puppies were rescued from Officer John Leggett’s backyard. Leggett, 44, has been charged with animal cruelty and is now on administrative leave while under investigation.
Police said at least one puppy was found dead.
Officers were called to Leggett’s home Saturday.
According to the Fayetteville Observer, [...]
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Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Dogs/Pets
August 28th, 2007 · Comments Off
From the AP via 11Alive.com:
Standing erect and answering questions with soft, short responses, NFL star Michael Vick pleaded guilty Monday to a federal dogfighting charge and awaited a Dec. 10 sentencing date that could send him to prison.
The plea by the suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback was accepted by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson, who [...]
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Tags: Atlanta · Crime/Law · Dogs/Pets · Sports
August 20th, 2007 · Comments Off
From AFP via Breitbart:
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to a dogfighting ring, according to a statement from his attorney.
In the statement by attorney Billy Martin, Vick agreed to plead guilty and accept a plea deal and will “accept full responsibility for his actions and the mistakes he has [...]
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Tags: Atlanta · Crime/Law · Dogs/Pets
August 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment
One of Michael Vick’s co-defendants doesn’t want to wait for trial. Instead, a plea agreement hearing was held for Tony Taylor in the federal dogfighting conspiracy case.
In the plea agreement signed by Michael Vick co-conspirator Tony Taylor, he claimed that Vick not only helped to organize a dog-fighting ring, he supplied the majority of [...]
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Tags: Absurd · Atlanta · Crime/Law · Dogs/Pets · Sports
Michael Vick was ordered by commissioner Roger Goodell to stay away from the Atlanta Falcons’ training camp.
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Tags: Absurd · Atlanta · Crime/Law · Dogs/Pets
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was indicted on a federal conspiracy charge for his alleged role in a dog fighting venture that operated from his Virginia property. The 27-year-old Vick, whose nickname is listed as “Ookie” in the indictment, allegedly established the Bad Newz Kennels in early-2001 in Smithfield, Virginia. It was this [...]
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Tags: Absurd · Atlanta · Crime/Law · Dogs/Pets · Sports
June 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off
From stuff.co.nz(Fairfax New Zealand):
Staff at Wellington SPCA gave the little labrador-cross pooch and his sister, Lottie, baby pacifiers because they were becoming ill from sucking on each other.
Lottie and Hugo were just a 1½ days old and already weak when they were found earlier this month floating in a box in a rubbish bin, SPCA [...]
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Tags: Dogs/Pets