Dogs

Anna Greer and Tina Stormberg: Owners of L.A.'s Oddest Bikini Shop

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Best friends since preschool, Anna Dewey Greer and Christine (Tina) Stormberg moved from Omaha to Los Angeles to open a bikini shop that was also a life/art project and also a g ... More >>

L.A. Is Dog-Bite Capital For Postal Workers

Among our many fine distinctions, smog capital, traffic capital, douche capital, is a new one: The U.S. Postal Service this week ranked Los Angeles number one among big cities where carriers are attacked by dogs. The USPS released the list of top dog-attack cities, based on the number of incidents, ... More >>

Dogs on a Plane

Tony, Bau Bau, Barry and Grace are wheeled through customs at the Tom Bradley Terminal at LAX last Monday. Barking in their crates, the four rescued retrievers are wheeled outside, where volunteers welcome them with food and water after a twenty-one hour flight from Taipei, Taiwan. They're accomp ... More >>

Unwanted L.A. Dogs Shipped To Seattle

First, we blasted our Hollywood and record industry entertainment across the nation. Then our Mexicans went to exotic places like North Carolina to work the tobacco fields. Now L.A. is shipping its pets to far-off American destinations. Why? Because' we're idiots:

Burbank Moves To Ban Dog, Cat Sales At Retail Shops

The city of Burbank appears to be joining the movement against retail pet sales. The local City Council gave its initial approval this week to a ban that would cover the retail sale of dogs and cats. The aim, of course, is to prohibit ...

Better Food for Dogs, A Doggie Diet Resolution A Peanut Butter Dog Treat Recipe

And so the month of dieting, and best-selling diet books, begins. Judging by the stacks on our desk, this year's back cover theme is the anti-diet, with books like The Parisian Diet: How to Reach Your Right Weight and Stay There promising a "sensible and holistic approach ... not a flash-in-the-pan ... More >>

Meet L.A.'s Parrot Champion Mira Tweti (Yes, That's Prounounced 'Tweety')

One day in January 2011, Mira Tweti walked down to the garage of her Playa del Rey apartment where she saw -- amid the clutter of trash meant for recycling -- a small, mid-century bird cage. Clean and narrow, the 3-foot cage had a diameter roughly the size of a large dinner plate. Though a self-des ... More >>

"Shelter Me" Director Steven Latham Talks About Saving Cats and Dogs

In the new documentary Shelter Me, director Steven Latham shines a light on the issue of shelter animals, who are too often put to sleep because no one adopts them. The issue has long been a concern of animal rights activists across the United States. The film is airing on PBS stations, and there w ... More >>

What To Do If Your Dog Gets High

Okay: You've never cupped your hands over your dog's snout and blown smoke into his nose. Ever? Well stop it. A Human Society expert says getting your dog high is not cool and, worse, could be dangerous. Dogs, in fact, can't really even get "high" as we know it:

Los Angeles Has Thousands of Lost Dogs, 90 Percent Never Found: Register Yours Online Before It's Too Late

In an effort to join the modern world, the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services is letting dog owners license their pets online -- finally joining pretty much every other major city in the U.S. L.A.'s troubled and problem-riddled Animal Services agency -- the big department has failed for yea ... More >>

Derek Reeve, O.C. Politician, Says His 'Bitch' of a Dog is Named Muhammad

cafepress.com​When we heard that an Orange County city councilman named his dog Muhammad to make a political statement about freedom of speech in America, we were a little wistful. After all, Latinos used to be the favorite whipping boys of wacko O.C. right wingers. We're lonely: We haven't b ... More >>

Omar Von Muller's Skateboarding Dogs. Yes, Skateboarding Dogs.

Adam GropmanDash goes skateboarding​It's a pleasant summer day down at Venice Beach, the boardwalk humming with activity. On the paved path pointing toward the water, near where Windward Avenue ends at the beach, a skateboarder shows off, kicking sturdily against the pavement, leaning into ... More >>

Pawty

Dog Slashed to Death, Fires Started by Stanton Suspect Jaime Arturo Garcia, Who Faces Allegations in Court Today

File photo of a dachshund.​Update: Dude pleaded not guilty today. First posted at 12:04 p.m. A 30-year-old from the Orange County armpit of Stanton faces an animal cruelty charge today after authorities said he slit the throat of his 7-year-old dachshund, Dexter, which succumbed to its injuri ... More >>

Hush Puppy Food Fight: Penguin Fish & Chips vs. Charlie's Fish & Chips

Hush puppies aren't the reason you bought the fried fish platter, but they're maybe what you enjoy most. Once you irrigate your breaded whiting pieces with liberal splashes of hot sauce and tuck them between a few porous slices of tartar-laden bread, these humble balls of fryer-blasted cornmeal dou ... More >>

Richard Rudy Aragon, Teen Son, Face Robbery Charges After Allegedly Using Pit Bull That Bites Off Ears of Victim

Get ready/This ain't funny/I'm a pit bull/And I'm about to get money.​There are all kinds of ways scumbags try to get your money (right, Bank of America?). But having a pit bull bite your ears off is a new potential revenue stream even for Wall Street. Authorities allege that, after his 17-ye ... More >>

40 Pets Have Vanished From L.A.'s North Central Animal Shelter: 'They Were the Young, Cute Ones'

Where have all the puppies gone?​No, this is not a Disney movie about a herd of adorable animals who scheme up a shelter-break and roam the adorable streets of Silver Lake. Nope. This is some fishy corrupt-city-worker business, according to today's Los Angeles Times, which compares the myster ... More >>

German Shepherd, 14-Months Old, Shot, Beaten by Suspect ID'd as Young Song, Authorities Allege

YouTubeA German shepherd puppy.​Updated after the jump: The suspect worked on some big movie titles for DreamWorks. He pleaded not guilty today. This will go down as a dark spot even in the annals of cruel and unusual behavior. Authorities allege that a Pasadena man sneaked into his neighbor' ... More >>

PENALTY FOR SAYING "UNNECESSARY RUFF-NESS"

Mark Mundell: Lawsuit Claims Simi Valley K-9 Cop Let Dog Savage Him and Showed Photos of it to Taunt Him

​Mark Mundell was sitting in his pickup truck outside of the Best Buy store in Porter Ranch when he heard a policeman shouting his name, demanding that he put his hands in the air. As he did, the Simi Valley Police Department K-9 officer, Richard Wiggington, who apparently has a history of not co ... More >>

Not Hot: L.A. Continuing To Ship Unwanted Chihuahuas Out-Of-State

​Dear fellow Southern Californians: Sometimes we can be real idiots. Maybe we can be forgiven for going through that Hummer phase, where every neighbor's SUV had to be bigger than the next. Or for buying that 4,000-square-foot house we couldn't afford and abandoning ship when those "balloon p ... More >>

Criswell predicts: "The Homosexual Capital will be Des Moines, Iowa, and the Bisexual Capital will be Pasadena"

​ Like an apolitical Andrew Breitbart, the Amazing Criswell used to live in L.A. and make things up. Over at this week's Studies in Crap on our Style Council blog, you can relish the most baffling of Criswell's predictions for the 1970s, selected from his book Criswell Predicts Your Next Ten ... More >>

The 12 Days Of Cookies: Sherry Yard's Holiday Dog Biscuit Recipe

Flickrt user taleitaleiYour Dog Is Dreaming Of A Golden Brown Christmas​When we kicked off the Twelve Days of Cookie Recipes with Alice Medrich's recipe for peanut butter clouds (peanut butter meringue cookies flecked with hazelnuts and milk chocolate), we were admittedly thinking more along t ... More >>

Twilight Hot Dogs: Vampire Dachshunds? Made of Clay? Huh?

​I don't understand these "Team Edward" and "Team Jacob" dachshund hot dogs. Why hot dogs? Why Twilight? Why vampire teams written in ketchup and mustard? Why does Jacob get mustard and Edward get ketchup?

Hollywood Dog Trainer Gimmick: $5 Super-Cheap Tracking Chip So You'll Never Lose Fido or Max Again

Cute puppy​Used to be, when Fido got lost chasing a squirrel across town, you'd nail dozens of little posters with his cute dog mug on it to cluttered telephone poles, hoping someone would buzz you with the good news that your pet had been found. Then along came those tiny tracking chips pl ... More >>

Mr. E's Beautiful Life

Eels frontman Mark Everett learns to like himself

L.A. City Worker Deliberately Mows Over Lawn Chairs At Sepulveda Basin Dog Park

​A city maintenance worker deliberately mowed over about two dozen chairs at the Sepulveda Basin Dog Park last week, leaving behind a trail of plastic shards and broken parts according to the Daily News. The lawn chairs, which people brought over the years for public use, were said to be nuisa ... More >>

Veterinary Worker Charged For Allegedly Starving German Shepherd

German Shepherd Rescue of Orange CountyCourage.​A veterinary worker was charged Tuesday with cruelty to an animal after authorities found a nearly starved German shepherd in her home last month. The Los Angeles District Attorney's office filed a criminal complaint containing one count of cruel ... More >>

'Don't Let Your Dog Or Cat Become An Octomom' - PETA

PETA​PETA is offering to pay "Octomom" Nadya Suleman to endorse the spaying and neutering of pets, the animal-rights group announced Tuesday. A proposed slogan would be posted on a sign on Suleman's front lawn: "Don't let your dog or cat become an 'Octomom.'" The offer comes amid reports that ... More >>

Camp Apocalypse

War, waste, wit and Woodstock: Cinefamily celebrates cheeky visions of end-times

Housekeeper Suspected In Brazen Home Invasion In Laurel Canyon

​The Los Angeles District Attorney's office says that brazen home-invasion in Laurel Canyon this week in which a resident and his dog were shot was carried out in part by a 24-year-old who had been a housekeeper at the home. The suspect, Elizabeth Hernandez, was officially fingered in the cap ... More >>

Backyard Unemployment Report: Cattle Herding Canines Face Job Cuts, Winery Dog Sector Holds Strong

It's been a rough year for cattle herding dogs.

Dog Trainer Dodges Eviction from DWP Land -- For Now

Last Friday's Daily Breeze brings us up to date on an overlooked but compelling story of animals, public use of city property and -- of course -- eviction. For a good background read, see a March Coast Gopher report. Nearly a quarter-century ago Peter Burmeister and a band of volunteers received per ... More >>

Everything Bad Starts in Culver City. Everything.

Mumb-ai Chihuahua

Bollywood and Disney make uneasy bedfellows in animated Romeo

Sarah Palin: Secessionist Regrets?

Also, animal torture and the Weekly's moral compass

The Breast of Times

Silver Lake's Nasty Land Feud

Ten years ago, City Hall created a dog park turned fecal pile. Now, nearby, city fathers want a "meadow"

Best Pet Love for Pound Pups

Catts & Doggs

Shop Till Everybody Drops

What the well-equipped survivalist will be wearing

Lily Allen Supports Homeless Doggies

I am still waiting on confirmation that the dark haired muffin with pin-up girl bangs in a demure dress was Lily Allen. I swung by Ashley Paige's shop on Sunday to check out the pooches she has up for adoption, and swear I it was non other than the brit reggae songstress chatting up the dude from Ea ... More >>

Best Cute Meet for Frenchies

Best Place to Die on a Very Short Hike

Dog Day Afternoon

Man's Best Friend

Nintendogs puts existentialism in the palm of your hand

Hey, Doc, It’s About my Dog

Asthma doesn't only affect humans

Stop the War — or the Dogs Get It

When in Rome . . .

Letters

Dog Fight

Fur flies over kill rate at LA animal shelters