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Hundreds of Thousands of Dallas Pets Are Living in the City Illegally

How many dogs and cats are there in Dallas? It's a hard, maybe impossible figure to nail down with any certainty, but extrapolating from the Humane Society's U.S. pet-ownership statistics, the number is just north of 600,000. The American Veterinary Medical Association's pet-ownership calculator giv ... More >>

Southern Dallas Is Getting its First Dog Park

It's kind of crazy that Oak Cliff doesn't have a permanent dog park. There are more than enough hipsters there to support one, what with their dual love of rescue dogs and community gathering spots. Way more, certainly, than Far North Dallas, which boasts Dallas' two newest dog parks. That's about ... More >>

New Cookbook Offers Recipes Fit for Both You and Your Dog

Cooking meals for your dog is nothing new. Before dog food, everyone cooked for their dogs because they had to. Now a growing number of dog lovers are returning to these pet care roots. Jeffrey Steingarten detailed his foray into canine cuisine in an essay called The Man Who Cooked For His Dog, me ... More >>

White Rock's Dog Park is Getting a $1 Million Redo, but First, Why Are There None in Southern Dallas?

Yesterday, the Dallas City Council green-lighted a long-delayed, million-dollar renovation of the dog park at White Rock Lake. Built for a song a dozen years ago, it is crowded, muddy and in bad need of an overhaul. City Councilman Dwaine Caraway agrees. He, like the rest of his colleagues, voted f ... More >>

A Cat Fight Over Declawing

A common surgery for pets becomes the next battleground for animal rights.

Joe King Carrasco Talks Dogs, Michael Jackson and Tlaquepaque

In Southeast Oak Cliff, an Armed Craigslist Puppy Theft

It's not hard to find pit bull puppies for sale on Craigslist. The tricky part is finding a seller, like 38-year-old Bryant Everett, willing to make the trip from his home in Fort Worth with three of the pups in a crate in the back in hopes of getting $150 for each one. The request for home deliver ... More >>

Feeding Your Dog Is About to Get Way More Expensive

Remember Finn? I introduced you to her two years ago when I first moved to Dallas and committed to a life of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and low-grade fatness. She's 16 now, and sleeps a lot more than she used to, but she still eats with the intense enthusiasm that has aggravated me since ... More >>

“He’s A Malbecadoodle”

Mutts Cantina, Dallas' New Dog Park/Cafe, Inspires Predictable Backlash With Breed Ban

You can always tell when a dog owner has no kids. They always seems to have the spare time and disposable income to hang out at the dog park, buy organic kibble and artisan chew toys, and lounge with their pets on their favorite restaurant patio. These are the people who look exasperated parents in ... More >>

Mutt's to Give Dog Lovers Another Place to Imbibe

Remember my old buddy Finn? She rode down to Texas with me from D.C. after I let her know I wanted to take a job with the Observer. I feel like kind of a jerk -- I haven't really given her all the doggy bags I promised her that would come with my new position -- but that's all about to change. Finn' ... More >>

The Warwick Melrose Somehow Lost a Guest's Chihuahua

Irma Grazdan and her two dogs, Binky the chihuahua and Boomer the Jack Russell terrier, checked into the Warwick Melrose the day before Thanksgiving. She was in town from Houston to visit family and had decided to stay at the Oak Lawn hotel in part because of its pet-friendliness. Fox 4 recounts wh ... More >>

This Event Is The Pitt's

And The Award For Best Whiskers Goes To...

Pet Envy

It's True, Dogs and Their Owners Do Become Alike. Mine Bites.

Not much sleep last night. Wide awake at 4 a.m., hiding beneath the sheets. A pretty sad state of affairs when a fellow of my years has to hide under his own bedding to avoid being bitten in the face by a dog. But there you have it. Rescue dogs. Two of them. It's how my wife and I handle things. I ... More >>

"No-Kill City": Dallas Forms Task Force Tasked With "Ending the Killing of Adoptable Animals"

Photo by Mark Graham​In the early days of the mayoral race, former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle quietly proclaimed on his website that he wanted Dallas to become "No-Kill City," meaning: With significant tweaks to its policies and procedures, Dallas Animal Services should be able to stop eutha ... More >>

Pups Strut Their Stuff

A Doggone Classic

Pet Sounds

Animal psychic Sonya Fitzpatrick hears voices, the dog and cat kind.

Dallas taxpayers have every right to be pissed about the goings on at the city's animal shelter.

Must Love Dogs

Dog School

Unleashed, No Longer a Puppy Thunderdome

With the cash-strapped city of Dallas ready to shell out more than $750,000 to build a new dog park and spruce up an old one, there's also news concerning changes at the city's privately owned indoor dog park. At Unleashed Indoor Dog Park, size no longer matters: Instead of dividing up dogs by weigh ... More >>

In Dallas Dog Parks, Canines Aren't the Only Ones at Play

The Cat's Meow

TICA is back with its tail swishing

City to Consider "Goodbye, Kitty" Ordinance

Shortly after noon at City Hall, the Dallas city council's Quality of Life and Government Services Committee will discuss Proposed Ordinances for Animal Control. Among the suggestions to be considered: new guidelines for dealing with "dangerous dogs" and mandatory spaying and neutering for all dogs ... More >>

Dallas Lawyer Specializes in Animal Welfare and Rights

Plus, if you want to bequeath your savings to Sparky she'll help you set up a pet trust

Ask a Mexican

At least Chihuahuas are too small to jump fences

TXU's Winged Friends

A place for birds to live, as long as they don't breath the polluted air. A year ago this month, before the brouhaha surrounding TXU's coal-fired power plans peaked last month in a buyout of the company, the utility made more environmentally friendly headlines. In one of the stories, an animal advo ... More >>

Ruff Reels

Studded collars meet the silver screen

Fur Fest

House cats attend Arlington convention

Kitty Has Two Daddies

Intrepid journalist sets out to resolve feline custody dispute

Puppy Love

Nintendogs' charm will win over the most jaded of gamers.

Best Place to Meet Someone Else's Best Friend

White Rock Lake Dog Park

Best Place to Suds Yer Bud

Dunking Doggies

Dogtown

Tailing downtown Dallas' pack of pampered canines

Kittie

November 11

Vanity Plates

The perfect gift for the pet that has--ahem--almost everything

Best Place to Get a Pet

Animal Adoption Center

Working Girls

Plus: Sack of Kittens

Dogs Gone?

Many Dallas restaurants welcome dogs--at considerable risk

The Dog Whisperer

Susan Blatz uses a kinder, gentler method to train dogs and the people who own them. Or is that the other way around?

A Few Good Dogs

September 11 creates a bull market for dogs with a nose for explosives

Life's a Bitch

Christopher Guest frolics with a pack of neurotics and their dogs in Best in Show

Best veterinary clinic

East Dallas Veterinary Clinic

Cat Scratch Fever

What's new pussy cat? (meow, meow, meow)

Dr. Lucas' Little Shop of Horrors

What drove veterinarian LISSALUCAS to allegedly starve dozens of animals and repeatedly butcher routine surgeries?

Nerds of a Feather

In the competitive world of pigeon racers, it takes one fast bird to deliver the coo de grace