UPDATE: This year’s Best in Show is Absolutely Talk of the Town, a smooth (damn right) fox terrier, here with her owner James Smith. No judging here — just love. We’re still waiting for the official results of the Lost Coast Kennel Club dog show in Ferndale this past weekend, but really, aren’t they all […]
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Your Dog is Dead
Guest post from Mark Dondero of Orleans, the land of abandoned dogs: This is an open letter to whoever abandoned a German shorthair pointer named Toby in Orleans, Calif., on St. Patrick’s Day, 2005. Your dog is dead. Actually, once you kicked him out of your car and he found his way to our house, […]
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Rabid Dog Bites Human
Holy yikes! This just in from the Humboldt County Health Department: An unvaccinated Trinity County dog that bit at least one person tested positive last Thursday for rabies. “Three adults and two children, all Trinity County residents, came into contact with the dog and are undergoing a series of injections to prevent rabies infection,” the […]
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Grand Theft Dog
A Humboldt County man has spent the holidays in and around Prescott, Ariz., desperately searching for his beloved Mastiffs, Brandy and Max, who were stolen from his property by a nefarious grifter, according to this story in The Daily Courier . William “Scooter” Reed and his partner, Robin Moberg, own a non-profit alpaca farm in […]
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Marsh booty
Two odd things found at the Arcata Marsh of a Thursday afternoon: A federal reserve note worth ten dollars American, right in the middle of the path with no one in sight. A malformed dog licking the crank of a partially dismantled bicycle. Granted, it was my dog, but still…odd.
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On the Road with Jerry
On the Road with Jerry: Did anyone watch the PBS program Nature last night? Apparently it tells the somewhat strange story of Eureka resident (and sometime Times-Standard columnist) René Agredano, who sold her business and traveled cross-country to give her dying dog one last hurrah. Interview at the link, with video available. The program will […]
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Bigfoot’s Boring
You remember Tom Biscardi, the guy who scrapped, most unfortunately, with Coast to Coast AM’s George Noory in the fall of 2005 after claiming he had a Bigfoot in captivity in Stagecoach, Nev.? (You can read the synopsis of all that fun nonsense here .) Well, the man’s temporarily gone off Bigfoot — such a […]
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‘Bloodhounds’ Requested
The University of California at Davis has launched a dog blood-donor program . That’s dog-to-dog of course. Some die-hard owners would no doubt be willing to open a vein for their favorite pet, but that service isn’t available yet. And if you’re wondering, according to the UC Davis press release, dogs, unlike humans, have 13 […]