Tag: DOGS
A new study by the American Kennel Club has found that the French Bulldog is NYC’s most popular pure bred dog. DNAinfo reports that the dog is most popular breed in the Financial District, Tribeca, Chelsea, Murray Hill and the East Village. The data is based on dogs registered with the Kennel Club. Last year’s […]
A local community has rallied together to save a feral dog from the cold, DNAinfo reports, after one woman started sleep with the wild dog in the woods to keep it warm. Washington Heights woman Denise Lauffer, a dogwalker with a habit of adopting feral dogs. Residents say that the dog, who Lauffer called Charlie, […]
It has long been thought that dogs respond to the way humans say things rather than what they say, but a new study indicates that canines understand both forms of communication — with separate parts of their brain. Current Biology published a report on Wednesday that concludes dogs process the meaning of words in the left […]
Video of NYPD officers NOT being violent was posted online Tuesday evening. ABC News obtained footage that shows two cops rescuing a dog in the Bronx that had been tied to a sign and abandoned. The pit bull had a muzzle around its nose tied very tightly, making it hard for the canine to breathe. […]
Many dog owners let their pets piss willy-nilly on all sorts of things. For them, if it’s outside, it’s fair game. But after reading the New York Times piece about how canine urine makes sanitation workers’ job even harder (and volunteering to watch my cousin’s puggle), I found myself very conscious of what I did […]
Whatever career/job/income-generating hobby you have, it’s probably fair to say it would be harder if you had to wade through dog piss to do it. So why do some people think it’s ok to let their dog piss on the trash? After all, it’s someone’s job to pick that trash up and take it to […]
(UPDATED 1PM) Artist Tom Otterness, whose bulbous and unthreatening public art sculptures appear all over the 14th Street and 8th Avenue subway station and many other places in the city, has repeatedly apologized for shooting a shelter dog for an art project in 1977, when he was 25-years-old. He said that it was a “mistake” which caused him […]
The number of violations of the “pooper scooper” law — which carries a $250 fine for those who don’t clean up after their dogs — are the highest in the Bronx and Queens, DNAinfo reports. Bronx residents were cited for breaking the law 252 times in the last two years, which Queens followed with 68 and […]
A new Texas-based company Celestis, Inc offers to send a portion of your pets’ remains or DNA into space, for as little as $995 and up. The pet remains will travel on a vehicle also carrying scientific or commercial baggage. The service is fairly customizable, as the company describes in their press release: “Service options include suborbital flights that […]
A pit bull was seen falling from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Greenpoint Tuesday night. The poor dog was apparently tossed from a moving vehicle by a horrible human being. “The way he was falling, head over heels down on the pavement, it just made us think we had probably seen a dog being thrown over the […]
