WFXT reports on the incident on Columbia Road, where the temperature was 87.
Pets
By adamg - 7/15/17 - 10:56 am
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports DCR has decided not to convert a street-hockey rink on Anson Street into a dog park because of opposition from street-hockey fans.
By adamg - 7/1/17 - 2:09 pm
Craig Caplan spotted these two folks today walking their pig through Christopher Coumbus Park, as one does.
UPDATE: Thanks to Flannery O'Brien Skadberg for the identification of this pig about town as Wiggy the Piggy.
By adamg - 6/8/17 - 8:02 pm
J Goodell spotted this parapet parakeet in the Back Bay today, wonders where he or she came from.
By adamg - 6/3/17 - 5:47 pm
PlunkettPrime forwards this photo a friend in Brighton took of the non-local visitor to her bird feeder.
By adamg - 5/23/17 - 1:11 pm
Missing Dogs Massachusetts reports Hercules was in a carrier bag snatched yesterday from the South Station bus terminal. He's six years old, two lbs. and was wearing a neon-green harness. If you see him, call 774-955-6541.
By adamg - 5/15/17 - 10:04 am
Davina Chojnowski had some fuzzy company on her Red Line commute this morning.
By adamg - 4/23/17 - 1:16 pm
Boston EMT administers oxygen to injured cat. Photo by BFD.
Boston firefighters and EMTs worked to save the life of a cat trapped inside a burning building in Roxbury this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 4/13/17 - 4:58 pm
Marc Ebuña had some time for some selfie action on the inbound Orange Line just before Tufts Medical Center due to a disabled train somewhere ahead of him, his cat, and the other riders on the train around 4:20 p.m. As of 4:55 p.m., everything seemed clear, though.
Earlier:
Strollercat furor on the Red Line.
By adamg - 3/27/17 - 9:39 am
Matt Karolian asks:
Someone keeps leaving bags of dog poop in the street outside our house. What are the best means of catching the poopetrator?
By adamg - 3/22/17 - 9:59 am
On the heels of a tense meeting on a proposed giant dog park in Hyde Park, DCR officials return to Boston's southern tier in a couple weeks to discuss putting a dog park on the Southwest Corridor off Anson Street, a couple blocks north of the Arborway.
City Councilor Matt O'Malley, who first proposed a dog park somewhere in the corridor, posts the meeting notice: 6:30 p.m. on April 5 at English High School.
By adamg - 3/20/17 - 8:59 pm
Backers of a plan to turn a needle-infested, abandoned recreation complex in Stony Brook Reservation into a dog park get a chance to convince DCR to let them go forward at a meeting in Hyde Park on Tuesday. Read more.
By adamg - 3/2/17 - 3:32 pm
These turkeys trying to give this cat its 10th life pic.twitter.com/VBM7t4MZYr
— J... (@TheReal_JDavis) March 2, 2017
The Real JDavis videoed these turkeys slowly circling a dead cat on a Randolph street this morning. Boston Magazine talks to a turkey expert to get answers on why.
By adamg - 2/25/17 - 10:13 am
A couple days ago, of course, when there was still lots of ice. Jamaica Plain News reports.
By adamg - 1/26/17 - 10:36 am
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department holds a public meeting on Feb. 7 to hear what people think about the idea of carving out part of Fallon Field for a dog area.
The session starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Roche Community Center, 1716 Centre St. in West Roxbury. Read more.
By adamg - 1/24/17 - 10:47 pm
For 40 minutes, puzzled newcomers at a meeting of the Dog Park Association of Southwest Boston tonight couldn't figure why DCR had abruptly abandoned work with the group to turn the decaying nine-acre Thompson Center in Stony Brook Reservation into Hyde Park's first dog park - to the point of refusing to even let group members see the consultant's plans the group had partially paid for. Read more.
By adamg - 1/4/17 - 12:14 pm
Electricians with Juno. Photo via Erin McCutcheon.
A cat that jumped out of a car on the upper deck of I-93 near Boston Sand and Gravel on Christmas day spent nine days in the pipework underneath it before she was rescued by electricians doing maintenance work yesterday. Read more.
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