dogs
Citizen complaint of the day: Lack of snow means early arrival of JP turd blossoms
By adamg - 2/8/12 - 7:51 amA disgusted citizen in Jamaica Plain complains about neighborhood dog owners:
what is up with all the dog crap on the sidewalks in JP? winter is usually bad, with sneaky dog owners leaving layer on layer of crap piles to be covered with snow until the spring thaw reveals what looks like anarchaeological dig gone very wrong. but we haven't had snow and crap is everywhere! can we at least get some signs up, not that i think the troglodyte owner can either read or care. and no, i don't have a photo-- do u really want one?
Dognapping outside Beacon Hill Whole Foods leaves local woman heartbroken
By adamg - 2/8/12 - 7:26 amUPDATE: Dog found safe in Lowell.
Pebbles, a 4-year-old yorkie/chihuahua mix was stolen by two women around 6:30 p.m. at the Cambridge Street Whole Foods as her owner dashed inside to buy some dinner.
Her owner is offering a $1,000 reward for her return, no questions asked. If you spot a little dog with one ear up and one down, send info to bringpebbleshome@gmail.com.
Citizen complaint of the day: Damned middle-of-street parkers and barking dogs
By adamg - 1/30/12 - 8:41 amIt's a South End twofer. First, a South Ender reports the neighborhood's quaint Sunday tradition of parking in the middle of the street is "out of control," at least, on Warren Avenue, where he or she spotted somebody parking in a crosswalk:
But that's just once a week. Another fed-up citizen complains about the dog park in the Southwest Corridor Park by Carleton:
Please please please please put a huge "NO BARKING" banner in the Carleton st dog park. The park is surrounded by residential units but selfish and inconsiderate dog owners allow their dogs to bark constantly. It's so antisocial. We are woken as early as 6am by barking dogs and sometimes to as late as 1am. Please do something about this. It's driving me mad!
Resident of house with dead, dying pit bulls in basement arrested on animal-cruelty charges
By adamg - 1/3/12 - 3:12 pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports that Tyrone Perry, 44, is scheduled for arraignment tomorrow in Dorchester District Court on charges he ran a dog-fighting arena in his basement.
Perry turned himself in today, police say. Last month, acting on a tip, police raided the basement of his Mather Street home, where they say they found 11 maimed pit bulls, one dead pit bull and 4 malnourished rabbits, along with copious amounts of feces, urine and blood. The Suffolk County District Attorney's office says he will be arraigned on 12 counts of animal cruelty - one for each of the dogs.
Innocent, etc.
Police seize several maimed dogs at suspected dog-fighting arena in Dorchester
By adamg - 12/20/11 - 8:25 pmBoston Police report recovering 11 malnourished, badly injured pit bulls, one dead dog and four poorly treated rabbits from a Mather Street basement stained in feces, urine and blood.
Doggie warnings go up around paw-burning manhole covers in the South End
By adamg - 9/12/11 - 1:58 pm
Complaining to the Mayor's Hotline gets results. Roving UHub photographer Sean Connor forwarded this photo today of the excessively hot manhole covers on Harrison Avenue, a day after somebody complained one had burned his or her pet's paws.
Citizen complaint of the day: The paw-burning manhole cover on Harrison Avenue
By adamg - 9/11/11 - 10:13 amA concerned citizen with a newly wounded pet reports on a manhole cover on the sidewalk on Harrison just outbound from E. Brookline:
Water and steam boiling out and cover is HOT. Burned dogs paws.
Dogs sniff out yappy hour at local hotel
By adamg - 8/11/11 - 10:06 amRhea Becker was on scene for the yappy hour at the Liberty Hotel yesterday. She reports their owners snapped up hors d'oeuvres and sipped cocktails.
More than two dozen Cairn Terriers rescued, to be put up for adoption
By adamg - 7/24/11 - 8:14 amThe MSPCA reports it's rescued 26 Cairn Terriers from a South Shore hoarder.
The dogs were "filthy, scared and in need of veterinary care," but are expected to recover - half of them are at Angell Memorial Hospital - and be put up for adoption.
The MSPCA did not name the hoarder or town.
Somebody in West Roxbury is a real creep
By adamg - 6/6/11 - 9:58 amChannel 4 reports somebody's stolen the little wheeled device a disabled dog uses to get around because his hind legs no longer work.
