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Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight

Ohmidog!!! This is it -- the last blog entry (from me anyway) on the Baltimore Sun "Mutts" blog. I don't know what the newspaper's plans are for the blog. My plans for me, though, involve leaving the paper as of today, writing a book and continuing a ...

From JOHN WOESTENDIEK, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  1 Aug 2008

Dock Dogs take a leap

A group of children watched yesterday as "Thor," a 3-year-old Chesapeake Bay retriever, sprung from a running board into a pool of water during the practice period for the DockDogs Big Air Wave competition at the 21st annual Harford County Farm Fair ...

From JOHN WOESTENDIEK, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  1 Aug 2008

The pet overpopulation myth?

Here on the last day of the Mutts blog -- at least the last day I will be associated with it -- we'll pay one last visit to the issue of mandatory spay/neuter laws, like the one proposed in Chicago that we mentioned yesterday. The post drew a few ...

From JOHN WOESTENDIEK, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  1 Aug 2008

His goats of many colors

Five goats -- and the friendly family to whom they belong -- are helping Stephen Elliott make it through the night. Formerly homeless, and formerly a heroin addict (one month clean, he points out), Elliott lives in a barn behind the Reisterstown home ...

From JOHN WOESTENDIEK, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  31 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Stephen Elliott

Clean dog, good cause

Tracy Santos, the cancer patient who led her troops through the Maryland SPCA's March for the Animals earlier this spring, will have all hands on deck on Sunday, Aug. 16 when the "Baltimore Bark Brigade" holds a dog-wash-a-thon at Eastern Animal ...

From JOHN WOESTENDIEK, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  31 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Santos, Ltd.

The price is right, Barker says

Former "The Price is Right" host Bob Barker lobbied Chicago's alderman yesterday to pass an ordinance requiring dogs and cats to be sterilized, but indications are the getting the proposal passed in the windy city isn't going to be a breeze. "There are ...

From JOHN WOESTENDIEK, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  31 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Bob Barker

National Dog Day - August 23

Save this date: On Aug. 23 National Dog Day 2008 will be celebrated on Solomon's Island. National Dog Day is about finding new families for unwanted dogs in the United States. The lifesaving goal for this year's celebration is for 20,000 dogs to find ...

From JOHN WOESTENDIEK, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  31 Jul 2008

GAD: New night, same annoying humans

Wonderful as those "Greatest American Dogs" are, should we really have to put up with all those greatly annoying humans on the show? "As the fourth episode is broadcast on Wednesday (the show has been moved from Thursday nights to Wednesdays), I am ...

From JOHN WOESTENDIEK, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  30 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Christopher Guest

DogFest 2008

The Humane Society of Baltimore County has taken its annual fund-raiser, Bark in the Park, turned it into something far huger, and given it all a new name -- DogFest 2008, which will take place Oct 4, 2008 at Shawan Downs. This year, there's a ...

From JOHN WOESTENDIEK, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  30 Jul 2008

6-legged deer finds home

A six-legged deer found in Georgia after being attacked by two dogs has a new home. An Athens woman with a permit to keep unique animals in captivity has agreed to take the deer, the Associated Press reported. The deer is now recovering at West Rome ...

From JOHN WOESTENDIEK, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  30 Jul 2008

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