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Major insurance company Farmers Group, Inc. has announced plans to stop providing homeowners coverage for California dog owners with pit bulls, Rottweilers, and wolf hybrids, according to Sharon Bernstein with NBC Los Angeles. "[T]hese three breeds caused more harm...
It's not just aggressive dogs you've got to worry about. In fact, you might have more to worry about if you're bitten by a cat than if you're bitten by a dog. As Marie Joyce writes for the Washington Post, a cat named Sammy put her in the hospital for four whole days....
Dogs kept outside most of the time, day or night, chained up in the yard, are "bored" and "frustrated," according to a nonprofit organization that sponsors a campaign called Valentines-from-24/7-Outside-Dogs. And boredom and frustration is exactly the thing that can...
Prosecutors have offered the 28-year-old dog owner stark options: a plea deal that would have him pleading guilty to the felony of having a dangerous animal that caused serious injury, or face the more serious felony of assault with a dangerous weapon, among other...
In anticipation of Halloween, CBS News in Dallas-Fort Worth gives us some tips on how to prevent a dog bite. Dog bites might be the greater threat, according to the report, than your kids getting overloaded on candy. Because dogs tend to be territorial, especially...
Told to either move away with their dogs or have the dogs taken away from them, Gary and Susan Kolb originally said they would move out. As neighbor Ron Barone said, "Why wouldn't you move to a farm up here? There's acres and acres and acres of land up here." But,...
One of the biggest challenges in dog bite cases is positively identifying the owner of the dog. If a dog bite occurs while inside someone's home or on that person's property, the problem becomes much easier to solve. But when the dog bite occurs in a park - such as...
Shannon Murray's CBS 7 story describes a thin stray dog trotting up to an Odessa woman while she was taking out the trash in the morning. The woman, Bonne Anthony, could see its rib cage. She felt sorry for it. Thinking the animal hungry, she threw dog food. That's...
As Denise A. Justin reports for Opposing Views, a woman died a "gruesome death" from an animal attack, as the police officer on the scene described it, when her granddaughter's pit bull broke out of its kennel and mauled the woman to death. It was supposed to be the...
When the operators of animal shelters feel crunched, the trouble seems to fall on the animals, at least according to the Human Society, which, as Scott Nishimura reports for the Star-Telegram, is none too pleased about recent changes to animal control policy in Fort...
