Havin Obrien 
For more than a decade, they were a familiar sight around downtown Salisbury, Maryland — the homeless man and his silky white dog. You could often find them stationed outside Benedict the Florist, or located in what was an even shrewder spot to panhandle — behind the Dunkin Donuts, where cars lined up at the … Read more
French bulldogs are now the most popular breed in New York and Los Angeles, and the fourth most popular nationwide, according to the American Kennel Club’s annual ranking of breed popularity. This year’s national ranking show Frenchies climbing into the top five for the first time. Twenty years ago, the breed was 76th on the … Read more
Blue Buffalo has issued another dog food recall — the third in the last two months. The company says its Blue Wilderness Rocky Mountain Recipe Red Meat Dinner Wet Food for Adult Dogs has the potential to contain elevated levels of naturally-occurring beef thyroid hormones. The voluntary recall applies to one production lot (840243101153). The … Read more
Bob Barker — game show host, outspoken proponent of animal rights and a man who has been putting his money where his mouth is — turned 98 yesterday. And he was back on TV for the occasion. Barker, who stepped down after nearly 35 years as host of CBS’s The Price Is Right in 2007, returned in an episode … Read more
The way they saturate the market, it’s easy to get tired of car insurance ads. They’ve always tended to air over and over again, until — as imaginative as they might be — we become sick of them. Perhaps you too have fallen victim to seeing a little too much of the Progressive spokeswoman, or, … Read more
“The Blue Boy,” artist Thomas Gainsborough’s most famous work, featured a dog at one point in its evolution, and come September you’ll have a chance to see its ghostly image in person. At some point in its creation, “The Blue Boy” lost his dog. Gainsborough painted over the fluffy white dog in the painting’s lower … Read more
A Los Angeles animal shelter has slapped actress Anna Faris with a $5,000 penalty fee for breaking the terms of an animal adoption contract she signed four years ago. Laurel Kinder, the head of Kinder4Rescue, says the emaciated Chihuahua was found Friday wandering the streets of North Hollywood. When a vet checked the dog for a … Read more
For your Halloween viewing pleasure we present a California dog named Jolene, coming face to face with a life-sized version of her favorite chew toy. Jolene’s owner, Emily Crisp, thought it might be fun, for Halloween, to have her boyfriend, Ben Mesches, dress up in a Gumby costume. He walks into the room as Jolene … Read more
A Michigan man thinks he has come up with a way to flush away the dog poop problem. Curt Fournier, of GreenDog LLC, is ready to start marketing the “PowerLoo,” an outdoor, flushable toilet for dog waste. It lists at $1,000 a unit, which I’m assuming includes the required tie-in to your home’s water and sewer … Read more
You wouldn’t expect a “leg man” to own a breed of dog that barely has any. But that is the case — ousted Fox News loudmouth, bestselling historian and accused sexual harasser Bill O’Reilly is the proud owner of a Corgi, who he has been spending a lot more time with since leaving his job, … Read more