For many years, across the world, the extraordinarily powerful noses of dogs have been successfully used to help detect crime. Now, in Britain, moves are under way to recruit humans to perform the same subtle work. Police are encouraging the British to step out of their homes, raise their nostrils …
Police in the border city of Mexicali say they have recovered a powerful improvised cannon used to hurl packets of marijuana across a border fence into California. Police told the Televisa network that the device was made up of a plastic pipe and a crude metal tank that used compressed …
A young woman filmed swearing and abusing people on a train in Sydney was thrown off and dumped on the platform by other passengers. The video, which was been posted on YouTube on October 26, shows the blonde woman in a red top spitting, swearing and hitting rail commuters, Mail …
A NSW council caught taking unwanted dogs to the local tip, shooting them in the head and throwing their bodies on to piles of rubbish is under investigation by the RSPCA Gloucester Shire Council went into damage control after its euthanasia practices were revealed by local pensioner Keith Whittall, who …
Almost 90 revellers at a dance music festival in Sydney’s east have allegedly been caught with ecstasy, amphetamines and cannabis. “The volume of detections is of concern,” said Surry Hills Local Area Commander Superintendent Anthony Crandell. Six drug detection dogs were used to sniff out people attempting to take illegal …
So there was a popular myth a few years ago that if their owner died a cat would eat their owner but a dog would not. I always thought it was a bit bullshit, dogs are known to be fond of carrion but cats are very picky about the freshness …
The decision by a New South Wales Central Coast motel to refuse entry to a blind man, his guide dog and family has been described as “gutless” by the state’s disability services minister. Businesses were today warned they faced a fine of $880 for such discrimination against the vision impaired, …
Read the source article if you want. It’s depressing as fuck. The family, who had their four year old girl mauled to death, now have to pay the fucking council’s fucking legal costs. Fuck this. I am so angry I can hardly type. I have been attacked by one dog. …
Anthony Hensley, 37, worked for a Chicago company that used swans and dogs to keep geese away from properties, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Mr Hensley was in a kayak checking on some swans in a pond in the suburb of Des Plaines on Saturday morning when one rushed at him …
A TEENAGER killed in a house fire posted threats to people on his Facebook page in the months leading up to his death. Homicide squad detectives are treating the death of Daniel Sheehy as suspicious after his Melton South home erupted in a fireball in the early hours of yesterday. …
Documents published online this month show that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an organization known for its uncompromising animal-rights positions, killed more than 95 percent of the pets in its care in 2011. The documents, obtained from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, were published online …
An elderly woman in Argentina was left fighting for her life on Saturday after a cat thrown out of a fourth-floor apartment during a heated argument landed on her head, local media reported. The incident occurred in the Belgrano neighbourhood of Buenos Aires when, during the dispute, a man grabbed …
Does Nintendo’s new “Super Mario 3D Land” game promote the wearing of fur? That’s what the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asserting in the organization’s latest attempt to grab attention for its pro-animal, anti-fur agenda. PETA explains its gripe with Mario, a graphic character from a video …
An Indonesian man who left his nine dogs to starve while he was away on a two-week holiday was decapitated and eaten by the hungry animals when he returned home. Police found Andre Lumboga’s body ripped to pieces on Monday after a neighbourhood guard noticed a revolting smell coming from …
You’ve probably seen the “boyfriend chair” in clothing stores for bored shopping companions. Now IKEA has taken the concept one step further by creating a “crèche” for retail-weary men, complete with Xbox consoles, pinball machines, continuous televised sport and free hot dogs. MÄNLAND is being trialled for four days this …
Outspoken Australian feminist Germaine Greer has launched a stinging attack on domestic dogs, blaming them for the ruination of a protected perennial flower, the English bluebell. Addressing Britain’s Hay Festival on Thursday, the 72-year-old Melbourne-born academic who owns a patch of land covered in the plant that flowers in spring, …
Only a month ago it was revealed that the Nazis had planned to kill allied forces with poisoned sausages if they managed to set foot on German soil. Now an equally unlikely weapon in Hitler’s armoury has emerged – talking dogs. The Germans saw canines as being almost as intelligent …
Military dogs are awe-inspiring creatures, especially when attached to elite troops like the Navy SEALs. All day, the media have been in a frenzy over the fact that a military dog accompanied SEAL Team 6 on its mission to wax Osama bin Laden. But let’s kill a misleading meme before …
The place we are going to speak about in this post is really hard to visit. It’s surrounded by a fence and guarded by special men with dogs. This is the highly protected Command Post of the Missile Division. Its building wasn’t finished – the military abandoned it in 2010. …
Crooks broke in to a Florida house and snorted the ashes of the homeowner’s dead father – thinking the powdery remains were cocaine. According to detectives, the suspects realised they had the remains from the dogs and the victim’s father, so the suspects got rid of the ashes. I was …