Dog Blog

A puppy saved its four-year-old owner from serious injury after the boy stepped on a manhole cover and plunged feet first into a sewer.
The accident happened last Thursday when Jack Sorrell, from High Brooms, was holding the Staffordshire Bull Terrier on a walk with his grandfather.

Fortunately Mia the dog pulled forward on the lead and stopped Jack from falling down any further.

Kent County Council denied any blame as the drain is on private land.

But Jack’s father Tony Philips said it was the second such incident.

“The lady who lives next door, her husband fell through the same drain hole two months ago and they reported it, but it still hasn’t been fixed.”

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A Seymour man will serve another 14 months behind bars for slashing the throats of six of his roommate’s puppies, killing five of them.
Brannon Chandler, 20, was sentenced Monday to two years in prison, but will receive credit for time served since his January arrest. Judge Patrick Carroll also ordered Chandler to serve three years of probation.
Chandler pleaded guilty in August to six counts of cruelty to animals for attacking his roommates’ pets in Seymour on Jan. 19. Police said Chandler told them he harmed the 6-week-old Labrador retriever mix puppies because his roommates wouldn’t let him have a dog.

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Live and dead dogs and cats are being used as shark bait by amateur fishers on the French-controlled island of Réunion, according to animal-welfare organizations and local authorities.

The small volcanic island off Africa’s east coast is bursting with stray dogs‚Äö√Ñ√Æupward of 150,000, says Reha Hutin, president of the Paris-based Fondation 30 Millions d’Amis (the Thirty Million Friends Foundation).

Hutin sent a film crew to R‚àö¬©union this summer to obtain proof that live animals were being used as shark bait. The goal was to expose the practice on the animal rights group’s weekly television show.

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OKLAHOMA CITY — Days of freedom for a couple of dogs, said by neighbors to have been chasing and attacking people and other animals, came to an end Monday — but not before police said the dogs killed another dog.

Authorities said the dogs were captured in the neighborhood of Northwest 12th Street and Meridian Avenue, and are now at the Oklahoma City Animal Shelter because they allegedly attacked and killed another animal.

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A 21-year-old Salt Lake County man died Saturday about noon when he jumped into a creek to rescue his puppy and tumbled 120 feet down a waterfall. The man and three of his friends were hiking Dry Creek Trail in the Lone Peak Wilderness area near Alpine when he jumped into the creek - between 4 and 6 inches deep - slipped and fell down Horse Tail Falls into a bed of moss-covered granite rocks, said Tom Hodgson, a sergeant in the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.

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