Pets

Hey haters, people love dogs. Deal with it!

2013-05-17 14:26:00

Meghan Daum’s Thursday column about the loss of her dog was a real tear-jerker. “If Rex could have talked, we'd have finished each other's sentences,” she wrote of their powerful bond. I choked up at my desk as I read it, thinking...

Program with tiny budget makes huge difference for pets, owners

2013-05-11 07:00:00

The teenager showed up in a panic on Thursday, cradling a wounded puppy in arms spattered with blood. A stray dog had attacked his 2-month-old pit bull on a walk near their South Los Angeles home. The city animal shelter nearby was the only place he...

Pit bulls in trouble again

2013-05-10 16:06:00

It’s tragic that a woman was mauled to death by four pit bulls Thursday morning as she went for a walk in the Antelope Valley community of Littlerock. And if the circumstances around her attack prove to be as police suspect, it’s a reminder...

Daily Deal: Free spa day for dogs at Ritz-Carlton Marina del Rey

2013-05-15 08:00:00

Spa Nautica at Ritz-Carlton Marina del Rey hosts a dog day this month with massages, acupressure, Reiki, stretching and strengthening for your hound -- for free. While pets receive their moments of spa bliss, owners can feel good by having a $99 massage...

Las Vegas: Yappy Hour lets owners and dogs stop in for a drink

2013-04-04 19:45:00

Rumor, a hotel just a few blocks east of the Las Vegas Strip, is admittedly going to the dogs with its Yappy Hour, a cocktail party to which guests are encouraged to bring their four-legged friends. Judi Perez, an executive with the Siegel Group, the...

Hawaii: Missing your pets? Volunteer at Maui's humane society

2013-03-29 07:45:00

Visitors to Maui now have a way to stay connected to four-legged friends, even if the family pets are back home, thousands of miles away. The Maui Humane Society is giving pet lovers a chance� to interact with homeless dogs and cats in need of some...

Charity helps foreign troops take Afghanistan pets home

2013-01-19 17:33:00

KABUL, Afghanistan — She was just an ordinary brown mutt, a stray, but Pvt. Conrad Lewis loved her. Lewis, a British paratrooper in Afghanistan's Helmand province, adopted the dog and named her Pegasus. Everyone called her Peg. In his letters...

Animal Planet's 'Puppy Bowl IX' gets set for touchdown

2013-02-02 06:00:00

Things promise to get ruff Sunday as Animal Planet's "Puppy Bowl IX" goes snout-to-helmet with the Super Bowl for ratings gold. Last year the show, which pits pound puppies against one another in a dangerously cute game of faux football using chew toys,...

Burbank votes to ban retail pet sales

2013-01-31 09:53:14

Woman banned from owning pets after stabbing her dog

2013-01-15 18:23:31

Saving thousands of adoptable animals, one at a time

2013-01-04 18:17:00

I hate to be a party pooper. So I've been eager to join the celebration over "No-Kill December" — the first time that Los Angeles city animal shelters have managed to go an entire month without euthanizing any adoptable dogs or cats. But I couldn'...

Suspect held in killing of animal control officer near Sacramento

2012-11-29 08:33:24

Marwick Kane of North Hollywood lets his 2-year-old long-hair dalmatian, Kai, give 14-year-old Danica DiPaola a kiss. Therapy Dogs International handlers were on hand with their dogs at The La Ca�ada Thursday Club's Power of Pets event.

2013-01-27 00:00:00

Danica Di Paola, 14, of Glendale, interacts with Essex, a 2-year-old red doberman pinscher. Therapy Dogs International handlers were on hand with their dogs oat The La Ca�ada Thursday Club's Power of Pets event.

2013-01-27 00:00:00

SeaWorld Rescue team members (L-R) Anita Yeattes, Suzanne Pelisson Beasley and Jessica Decoursey pose with rescue dogs onboard the Southwest Airlines flight. Sixty orphaned dogs and cats are being flown across the country from Newark Liberty International Airport on November 17, 2012 in Newark,

2012-11-17 00:00:00