Archive for December 27th, 2008
Shoplifting dog snags treat, makes getaway
A dog in Murray, Utah walked into a supermarket on Christmas day, snagged a rawhide bone from the dog food aisle and calmly walked out — bone in mouth — despite the store’s manager order to “Drop it.”
The suspect, caught on a surveillance camera, appears to be a Siberian Husky.
The surveillance tape shows the dog arriving, sniffing a young girl near the cash registers, then wandering to Aisle 16, where the pet food is kept.
Store manager Roger Adamson confronted the dog as he headed for the exit with a $2.79 rawhide bone that he had not paid for.
“I said, ‘drop it!’” Adamson recalled. The dog didn’t obey. “I decided I wanted to keep all my fingers, so I didn’t try to take it from him.”
The dog is apparently still at large.
Posted by jwoestendiek December 27th, 2008 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: bone, camera, chew, dog, dog food, grocery, murray, rawhide, shoplifting dog, shoplifts, siberian husky, store, supermarket, surveillance, tape, treat, utah
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Simpson, Wentz turn to “Dog Whisperer”
Before Ashlee Simpson had her baby, Bronx Mowgli, she and husband Pete Wentz turned to Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan — not for child-rearing (or naming) advice but for help with their two bulldogs.
The pop star and her rocker husband were concerned about how their sometimes obsessive, sometimes aggresive bulldog, Hemingway, might react to a baby in the house. When they got him a second bulldog, Rigby, as a companion — in hopes of calming him down — it only made Hemingway’s aggression escalate.
So, in the months before Bronx Mowgli was born, Simpson and Wentz brought their worries, and their bulldogs, to Millan — well, actually he went to them. The experience is recounted on tomorrow night’s episode of “The Dog Whisperer” on the National Geographic Channel.
Millan works with the couple to help Hemingway overcome his aggression toward other dogs, his habit of attacking his own shadow, or any other shadow, and his tendency to assault the couple’s silver exercise ball. By episode’s end, those matters seemed well on their way to being resolved.
We can only assume the dogs are getting along fine with Bronx Mowgli (born Nov. 20) and not teasing him too much about his name — the first half of which comes from the borough, the second half of which comes from the Rudyard Kipling character, who, by the way, was raised by a pack of wolves.
Posted by jwoestendiek December 27th, 2008 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: aggression, animals, ashlee simpson, ashlee simpson-wentz, behavior, bronx mowgli, cesar millan, dog whisperer, dogs, english bulldog, fallout boy, hemingway, national geographic channel, obsessive, pete wentz, pets, rigby, training
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