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 [...]
Tags: Dogs/Pets
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. [...]
Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Dogs/Pets · Iran · Islamofascism · Muslim/Islam
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, [...]
Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Dogs/Pets · Money
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. [...]
Tags: Dogs/Pets · Strange/Funny
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: Dogs/Pets
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 [...]
Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Dogs/Pets · Georgia
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 S
