Diamond recalls third type of dog food
Diamond Pet Foods is voluntarily recalling a third type of dry dog food due to salmonella concerns. All three products were made at a Gaston, S.C., plant — the same one that made mold-contaminated...
View ArticleMars recalling some Pedigree canned foods
Mars Petcare has announced a voluntary recall of three varieties of its Pedigree brand weight management canned dog food products due to a choking risk. Affected product may contain small pieces of...
View ArticleNew Hope becomes less dog friendly
Colorful, progressive, tolerant — all words that have been used to describe the artsy Pennsylvania borough of New Hope, where tourism is the leading industry. But, with one warning memo from the Bucks...
View ArticleAnother remembrance of skid row’s Sheba
She was a “patient” and “loving” sort, whose “excess belly fat and low-hanging nipples gave testimony to her maternal nature.” “Everyone on skid row — kids, cops, prostitutes, pimps — loved her,” Jeff...
View ArticleOn the importance of moderation
Maybe, in your New Year’s Eve celebrating, you found a cocktail last night that you really flipped for — but hopefully not to the extent of this puppy. He’s so into what’s in his bowl, he ends up...
View ArticlePay it backward: Thieves take supplies meant for poor and their pets from...
Ten thousand dollars worth of supplies were stolen from a California rescue organization that helps homeless and low-income people care for their pets. Mohave Desert Animal Rescue, based in the...
View ArticleWho knew? Bull penises are high in calories
A new study on bully sticks reports that many pet owners are unaware how high in calories the popular dog treats are. And more than half of all consumers who buy them for their dogs aren’t aware that...
View ArticleA lesson from Lilica
Lilica lives in a junkyard in São Carlos, Brazil, along with another dog, a cat, some chickens, a mule, and a human caretaker named Neile Vania Antonio, who found her abandoned as a pup and took her...
View ArticleAccused dogfighter in Charlotte ordered to help pay for care of seized pit bulls
A dogfighting suspect awaiting trial was ordered Friday to help pay for the care of more than two dozen pit bulls seized from his property in Charlotte. Lefonze Williams, 42, was ordered Friday to pay...
View ArticleIt’s all about sharing
Here we see a duck and a dog peacefully sharing a meal — at least until the food runs out. Then the duck gets a little peckish. The dog, who looks like he might have a little pit bull in him, takes it...
View ArticleFor love of food, or for love and food?
Ace remembers. Ace remembers the park he used to play in, the places he liked to poop, the street he used to live on, the people who gave him treats. Ace remembers which rowhouse windows cats lived...
View ArticleWoof on the wharf: A doggie menu
Ace and I were strolling down Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey – a place where one can make a meal out of the free samples of clam chowder offered by hawkers trying to lure you into their establishments....
View ArticleRoscoe’s ruse: Trading up to turkey
I finally got my Thanksgiving dinner, and while I didn’t bite the hand that fed me, Ace did bite the head of the dog belonging to the man who fed us. My brother and his partner, James, knowing my...
View ArticleNew book has a quibble with kibble
Richard Patton thinks we’re killing our dogs — not with kindness, but with carbohydrates. Dogs, as good as they are at adapting to most things, are poorly adapted to cope with the constant diet of...
View ArticlePig ears recalled amid Salmonella fears
Jones Natural Chews Co of Rockford, Illinois, is recalling 2,705 boxes of pig ears after random tests found some of the product contaminated with Salmonella, the Food and Drug Administration reports....
View ArticleSanta Fe’s dog-friendly eateries
Santa Fe is big on rules and restrictions. It’s also big on dogs. And, in more than a few cases, dogs have won out. During our time in Santa Fe, we visited three dog-friendly restaurants (at least one,...
View ArticleThat Waffle House ambience
Being on the road with a dog, there aren’t that many opportunities for a sit down meal, or at least a leisurely sit down inside a restaurant meal — meaning I, in my travels below the Mason-Dixon Line,...
View ArticleHighway Haiku: “Egg McMuffin”
“Egg McMuffin” Cheesy and greasy You’re eggs-actly what I need Be mine, McMuffin (Highway Haiku is a regular feature of “Dog’s Country,” the continuing account of one man and one dog spending six...
View ArticleAnthropologie to hold dog adoption events
Images of dogs have been popping up more and more in Anthropologie’s merchandise, but this fall many of the chain’s stores will be featuring actual dogs — shelter pets in need of adoption....
View ArticleDoggin’ it at the Black Walnut Festival
Ace dragged me down to Bethania’s annual Black Walnut Festival over the weekend, but I don’t think the nuts were the reason he was pulling so hard on the leash. More likely it was the smell of barbecue...
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