Dogs

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 >>

Dogs Love Malls And Rabbits

City Preps For $1.1 Million Renovation of White Rock Dog Park

The White Rock Dog Park is a wonderful place, and not just because it was the the first official off-leash space in the city. It's a friendly place reliably thronged with good-natured canines and the people who love them. It's part of what makes White Rock Lake such a gem. That said, the park has a ... More >>

Oak Cliff is One Big Step Closer to Getting a Dog Park at Kidd Springs [Updated]

Folks in Oak Cliff have been pushing for an Oak Cliff dog park for a while now. More specifically, they've been lobbying the city to pitch in for a permanent one, since they have the pop-up thing down by now. Yesterday brought good news. According to a post on FIDO Oak Cliff's website, the city has ... More >>

Bead Me, Baby

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 >>

Let's Take a Day Away from Anger and Talk about Dogs

Oh, it's the very last day of the year, and I'm just not going to write about that damned fiscal cliff thing because it makes me so angry, and I don't feel like ending the year on that note. I want one day off from angry, if you don't mind. Maybe it will help to start the new year on a less disconso ... More >>

This Event Is The Pitt's

Dallas City Hall Wants $20,000 from Dog Owner Whose Pit Bull Attacked a Code Inspector

A Dallas code inspector named Donna Garza was making her appointed rounds back in December 2010 when she came upon the home of Loyd Ferrell Ray, in a tree-lined neighborhood south of Preston Hollow. As she conducted her routine inspection of his home, Ray's pit bull got lose somehow, and drew a bea ... More >>

Pet Envy

Booze Hounds

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 >>

In South Dallas, a Fight Between Dog Rescuer and Neighborhood Turns Ugly. (RIP, Booger.)

Photo by Anna Merlan​A years-long dispute between a woman who runs a dog rescue out of her home and her increasingly annoyed neighbors has resulted in hundreds of phone calls to Animal Control, a felony robbery conviction, one dead dog and, we're guessing, some pretty awkward block parties. ... More >>

Doggone Fun

Pups Strut Their Stuff

Mulligans for Mastiffs

A Doggone Classic

Bone Up On Photography

Neighbor Called 911 On Pit Bulls Prior To Friday Morning Attack in M Streets

​Late Friday afternoon, while we were still sifting through those comments for and against pit bulls (and their owners), Unfair Park HQ received a call from Jill Urban, who said she called 911 on those two "un-collared" pit bulls in the M Streets area some 20 minutes or more before the two dogs sp ... More >>

Must Love Dogs

Dog School

Run for the Border

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 >>

City Prepared to Spend Bond Money to Keep Dog Parks From Going to, Well, You Know ...

This morning, the Dallas City Council's likely to approve spending $718,803 in 2003 and 2006 bond money to build the proposed Wagging Tail Dog Park near Preston Road and Keller Springs; it's Addendum Item No. 4, for those playing along at home. As mentioned last week, though, that was but one of two ... More >>

Rally 'Round the Family (Pet)

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

Puppy Love

Show everyone (at the mall) how much you care

City to Consider "Goodbye, Kitty" Ordinance

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

Help Wanted

Doggie Patchouli

Puppy Love

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

Puppy Love

John Cusack's another endearing mutt in Must Love Dogs

Pet Fete

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

Vanity Plates

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

Best Daytime Picnic

White Rock Lake

Woof-la-la

Spoiled bitches have their day

Best Place to Get a Pet

Golden Retriever Rescue of North Texas Inc.

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

Dog, gone

The power of Willie Morris' memoir, My Dog Skip, is diluted on-screen

Dog's best buddy

Four legs and a funeral

This tale of a boy, his dog, and Mesquite Animal Control doesn't have a happy ending

Talk to the animals

Veterinarian Norman Ralston favors acupuncture, herbs, and homeopathy instead of traditional animal medicine. He says pets speak to him through a channeler, and he lets them prescribe their own treatment. It's no wonder state regulators are keeping a clos