A California company that provided financing to Massachusetts residents who wanted to lease rather than buy dogs has agreed to stop that and reimburse the state and the pet renters because it's illegal to rent pets here, according to a settlement agreement filed in Suffolk Superior Court today. Read more.
Dogs
By adamg - 4/8/22 - 5:06 pm
A Glenville Avenue resident is facing two counts of animal cruelty after police responding to a report from another resident of "loud bangs and a puppy shrieking" found a young pit bull that had a fractured bone in his left hind leg - in addition to other fractures and skin lesions - the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 3/1/22 - 10:51 pm
Boston firefighters responded to the waterfront between the ICA and the Mass. Mutual building on Fan Pier on a report of a dog in the water around 10:45 p.m. They rescued a dog from the cold waters and returned it to its owner.
By adamg - 2/24/22 - 9:29 am
Mary Ellen spotted this new sign at Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday.
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By adamg - 1/31/22 - 9:26 pm
It's coyote mating season and they're out and about - like in the Arnold Arboretum at dusk: Read more.
By adamg - 12/23/21 - 3:52 pm
Drew Starr reports that Boston Animal Hospital on Southampton Street has notified customers they are closed "until further notice" due to staffers coming down with Covid-19.
By adamg - 11/27/21 - 11:28 am
The never ending war between people with dogs and people without dogs at South Boston's Medal of Honor Park continues to explode in the annals of Boston 311, where workers have now pulled the communal complaint car over and are snarling at the back seat that if you don't cut it out right now, 311 will come back there and bend you like Peter Bent Brigham so help you God. Or words to that effect. Read more
By adamg - 10/13/21 - 3:49 pm
Update: WCVB reports the dog, a foxhound named Hubert, but nicknamed Bubba, has been rescued.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters are at the top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury working to free a dog trapped in a drainage pipe. The park is the former Boston city landfill, now capped with clay, a plastic liner and grass-covered dirt, along with a variety of pipes for draining rain and collecting methane gas.
By adamg - 10/7/21 - 9:24 am
EastieStrong snapped Max the Bernedoodle as she rested on a walk along the East Boston waterfront this morning.
By adamg - 9/8/21 - 1:04 pm
A couple who live on Fayston Street have sued both the city and the BPD officer they say shot their pet without provocation on July 4, 2018. Read more.
By adamg - 9/7/21 - 12:18 am
Dog trooper who helped find his alleged failed killer and the pole he was chained to. Photos by State Police.
State Police report arresting a man they say decided he could no longer keep his dog, but rather than go to a shelter, chained the dog to "an exposed steel rod at the edge of a beach, with a large rock attached to the chain to prevent the dog from escaping, and then walked away, leaving the dog to the mercy of the next high tide." Read more.
By adamg - 9/2/21 - 10:09 pm
Boston Police report arresting an 18-year-old on charges he fatally shot a dog at 97 Brunswick St. around 11 a.m. on Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 8/29/21 - 11:04 pm
Tonight we learned, via the city's answers to separate 311 complaints, that it might be best to wait until dog waste left by inconsiderate dog owners has turned kind of solid before contacting 311. Read more.
By adamg - 8/18/21 - 10:54 pm
Angell Animal Medical Center in Jamaica Plain reported tonight it had run out of capacity to handle any new ER patients and was diverting all but the absolute sickest to other facilities in the area. Read more.
By adamg - 8/17/21 - 11:38 am
Watertown News reports the attack. which left another dog injured, happened in the area of Walnut Street on Friday night.
By adamg - 7/27/21 - 9:16 am
Jamaica Plain News alerts us to a July 29 meeting organized by the First Church on Eliot Street about its burying ground. It's fine with dogs, as long as their owners clean up after them, but some neighbors are not.
By adamg - 7/9/21 - 10:37 pm
Raisman reports that Mylo, who broke away and ran during fireworks in the Seaport on July 3, was found today by three good Samaritans - and their dog - all the way down near UMass Boston.
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