Dog torture videos lead to two arrests
A 22-year-old man and a 13-year-old boy were arrested in Chicago after torturing five puppies and posting videos of it on YouTube, police said. Joshua Moore, the adult, told police he did it because he...
View ArticleClose encounters of the turd kind
Citizen journalist and dog poop vigilante Andy Ross reports that a four-year-old girl in New Haven had to be treated at a local hospital after an encounter with dog feces in Wooster Square Park. The...
View ArticleThis just in: Poop in the mailbox, delivered by the former president of CNN...
The former president of CNN Headline News in Atlanta was caught on a security camera when he placed a bag of dog poop into the mailbox of his neighbors. Bob Furnad, who also served as CNN’s political...
View ArticleTracking dog poop in the Twin Cities
Ahhh, the many noble uses of DNA testing — to free a wrongly convicted prisoner from death row, to nail down a rape conviction, to match a baby daddy to a baby and make him take some financial...
View ArticleDogs are tainting town’s “crown jewel”
Officials in Abington, Mass., say the town’s “crown jewel” has a Problem, with a capital P and that rhymes with D and that stands for dog. They say dogs are posing a “serious health problem” especially...
View Article300 dogs seized from Spindletop refuge
About 300 dogs found living in cramped and unsanitary conditions were removed by authorities this week from Spindletop Refuge, the largest pit bull rescue organization in Texas. The Montgomery County...
View ArticleGetting the poop on presidential candidates
Last night’s debate was a great opportunity to get the poop on the presidential candidates. Here’s another: Metro Paws LLC is offering biodegradable dog poop bags emblazoned with the candidate of your...
View ArticleDallas City Council wooed by the poop posse
A company we’ve told you about before, called PooPrints, made its case before the Dallas City Council this week, promising it could solve one of life’s great and ongoing mysteries — and it’s not who...
View ArticleBark versus bite: Some NYC signs warn of $1,000 dog waste fine — but it...
Some signs in New York City — warning of $1,000 fines if you fail to clean up after your dog — start off with these words: “IT’S THE LAW.” Problem is, IT’S NOT. Proving once again that words written in...
View ArticleEndangering feces: Plano apartment complex is latest to hire poop-testing...
An apartment complex outside Dallas has become the latest to hire a company that conducts DNA tests on unscooped dog poop, with an eye toward fining, and possibly evicting, any owners who fail to clean...
View ArticleLet he who’s without pen cast the first toon
Yesterday we showed you some work from a real cartoonist. Today, painful as it is, we’re showing you mine, retrieved from the garbage. The year Ace and I spent on the road was about, among other...
View ArticleHealth insurer get stinky response to advertisements mailed to family dog
Tired of junk mail they were receiving from a health insurance company — all of it addressed to their pet — a family in Indianapolis struck back by sending along a little something from the dog. The...
View ArticleMuch ado about poo in Spain
There might not be any town as intent — you might even say obsessed — with wiping out dog poop as Brunete, Spain. First, officials in the town on the outskirts of Madrid launched a social awareness...
View ArticleBuilding a better poop trap
Products designed to catch your dog’s poop before it hits the ground continue to hit the marketplace — if not stay there. One of the latest is Catch-a-Poop, the “revolutionary new way” to clean up...
View ArticleStill more ado about poo
In a episode nearly as ludicrous as the case of the soiled condominium, an English great-grandmother was threatened with a £50 fine for picking up the wrong dog’s poop. Pam Robson was accused by...
View ArticleCondo board dumps DNA poop proposal
The proposal to establish a DNA database of every dog who resides in Baltimore’s Scarlett Place Condominiums — all in hopes of figuring out who’s not picking up their dog’s poop — appears to have been...
View ArticleProbe finds lax enforcement of puppy mills
Lax government enforcement of puppy mills has led to countless dogs dying and living in horrific conditions, according to an internal government report. Investigators say the Department of Agriculture...
View ArticleDogs banned from Concord cemeteries
The city council in Concord, New Hampshire, has voted to ban dogs — we’re talking live ones — from cemeteries. Dogs are no longer permitted in the 13 cemeteries in Concord as a result of the vote, and...
View ArticlePoop power: Feces powers park lamp
Dog feces is being used to keep the lights on — well, one light, anyway – at a park in Cambridge. Conceptual artist Matthew Mazzotta, through an MIT-funded project known as Project Park Spark, is the...
View ArticleNY woman says police beat her over dog poop
A New York woman claims two Queens police officers roughed her up during a dispute over whether she failed to pick up her dog’s waste. Anna Stanczyk, 49, insisted her terrier, Psotka (“prankster” in...
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