Another case of kids torturing dog in city
Another dog, tortured by children, has ended up at Baltimore Animal Rescue & Care Shelter – this once so emaciated it appears that the abuse came after a long period of neglect. TJ was brought...
View ArticleLetter draws attention to neglect case
Rural Caswell County is prosecuting its first suspect under North Carolina’s tougher animal cruelty statute, known as Susie’s Law, but the case — in which three dogs starved to death while chained – is...
View ArticleDumped down trash chute, Patrick survives
Patrick the pit bull — a dog who was starved, placed in a garbage bag and tossed down the trash chute of a 22-floor apartment building in Newark — continues to slowly recover. And considering the...
View ArticleOwner of dog that was dumped down trash chute charged with neglect, abandonment
A 28-year-old Newark woman has been charged with four counts of animal cruelty in the case of Patrick, a 1-year-old pit bull who was found almost starved to death after he was dumped down a garbage...
View ArticleIn Patrick’s name: Newark mayor calls for new shelter in honor of starved pit...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker is asking the public for a birthday present — a new animal shelter to be built in honor of Patrick, the pit bull dumped down a high rise apartment building’s trash chute and...
View ArticleWoman gets no jail time in dog starvations
A distressing animal cruelty case came to an unsatisfying conclusion yesterday here in my temporary hometown. Upon being convicted of starving two dogs to death, Lysandra Nicole Chambers, 33, of...
View ArticleChamberlin gets his day in court
Rolled into a North Carolina courtroom in a green wagon, a pit bull mix named Chamberlin watched as one of two people accused of neglecting him so severely he’ll likely never fully recover was...
View ArticleMemphis shelter had ties with dogfighters
Some staff members of the troubled city-run animal shelter in Memphis have had ties with dogfighting rings, an outside study of the shelter concludes. The review of operations at the Memphis Animal...
View Article18 months later, case is not resolved, bill is still pending, but Patrick’s...
A year and a half after a starved pit bull was found at the bottom of a trash chute at a Newark high rise apartment — looking more like a corpse than a pet — the dog who would go on to be named Patrick...
View ArticleStarship eats in a high chair, seeks a home
Here’s a dog named Starship who’s guaranteed to send your heart into the stratosphere. She has an ailment that requires her to eat in a high chair, like a baby. Shelter officials at Greenville County...
View ArticleFreed from trash can, an abandoned collie mix named Fawna finds some love
A 9-month-old collie mix found last week in a garbage can in New Stanton, Pa., is now enjoying the things her former owner failed to provide — food, shelter and kindness among them. She’s less...
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