SEPTEMBER 2017 UPDATE: Andres Spancky Raya has been sentenced to only two years in state prison for felony animal cruelty. The video is very difficult to watch, but has been viewed over 18 million times since Wednesday. A dog…
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Troy, a Pit Bull who lives in Amsterdam, “pawed” it forward to his rescuers. He hand — er, mouth — delivered a gift to the police officers who saved his life. While walking through Rietlandpark with his owner last month,…
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Stories of Pit Bulls saving their pet parents from attacks really aren’t that unusual, although you’d never know it from the news media, which generally prefers to report only negative stories about these misunderstood dogs. Last week, a 7-year-old stray Pit…
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Robert Lineburger is alive today thanks to his seizure-detection dog, a Pit Bull named Precious. But it wasn’t her detection of a seizure that saved Lineburger. Two months ago, as Lineburger and Precious were walking to a restroom at the Port LaBelle Marina in…
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While returning from spring break in Florida to the University of Arkansas, where she was a student, 19-year-old McKenzie Catron crashed her car into a utility pole in Dothan, Ala., last weekend. Catron, who was from Bentonville, Ark., was killed. Her 19-year-old…
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