Subject: Animal Cruelty

• PETA Likes Dolphin Stadium

  September 4, 2007

• Man Screws Goat

  January 4, 2008

• Updated: Ringling Bros. Elephant Injures Trainer

  January 15, 2008

• PETA Likes Dolphin Stadium

  September 4, 2007

• BEST ARGENTINE RESTAURANT

  May 13, 2004

• Joey Porter Cool With Pit Bull Fighting, Not Cocker Spaniel Brawls

  Is there any extra duct tape lying around the Dolphins locker room? How about a ball gag? Because there are times when Joey Porter just needs to shut up. Porter was sharing his deep thoughts on the Michael Vick case and decided Vick should be given another shot in the NFL because he was abusing pit bulls, not cocker spaniels. From ESPN: "He's already been punished enough," said Porter, who owns a pair of pit bulls and a Maltese. "They gave him his penalty. He paid his penalty. What else sh

  November 21, 2008

• Rourke Doesn't Want Your Dog to Get Knocked Up

  Mickey Rourke's role in The Wreslter must have really stuck with him, because I'm pretty sure the last time I heard the word cojones was on the WWE. Here he is with his beloved Chihuahua, Loki, posing for the new PETA ad with a message that Bob Barker would be proud of. Of course I don't think Barker ever ended an episode of The Price is Right quite as bluntly as "make sure your dogs don't get knocked up." In any event, let's be glad Rourke didn't pose for one of PETA's "I'd rather go naked th

  January 15, 2009

• PETA's Super Bowl Advert is Banned, Legions of Sports Fans Indifferent

  Just how irrelevant has PETA become? The one-time-animal-rights-organization-turned-ludicrous-marketing-machine long ago gave up trying to reach people with reasoned arguments about the sanctity of all life or the wastefulness of our meat-happy culture. Instead they've adopted a fairly standard marketing strategy with which to convert confused meaties: 1) Create supposedly offensive advert designed to piss off octogenarian censors and bible-belters, 2) feign outrage when said moral authorities

  January 27, 2009

• Program Notes

  October 28, 1992

• Magic City Kitty - Can I Have Doggie Sex?

  Hello, Kitty I am a 51-year-old housewife; my husband is the same age and I love him to death. But we rarely have sex. We just recently adopted a Japanese Akita from friends who were moving out of state, and he's really a handful. He's completely hyperactive and shows his affection by grabbing hold of my leg and well, you know. He has even done this to hubby and houseguests. My husband says it's because the dog is male and is trying to mate but has no outlet. He added that given the chance, the

  February 6, 2009

• The Case of the Unlawfully Delicious Pony

  Wikimedia CommonsPass the salt!In these tough economic times, Miamians find themselves cutting new corners to make ends meet. As unemployed 39-year old Hialeah resident Ricardo Caonwahi tells us, that can sometimes mean making a meal out of a pony. Yes, a miniature horse.Caonwahi is being charged with three misdemeanors- creating a sanitary nuisance, cruelty to animals, and violating animal disposal law- for the fateful events of November 26, 2008. Hialeah cops say he killed and gutted his own p

  March 6, 2009

• Bestiality May Actually Become Illegal

  still from The ShiningLet's take a look at Florida's laws. Gay marriage? Banned in the constitution. Gay adoption? Illegal. Bestiality? Technically legal. Yep, Florida is one of 16 states that doesn't ban inter-species sexual contact. Though, usually bestiality practitioners get charged with animal cruelty. Sen. Nan Rich (who will lead Democrats in the Senate come 2010) is finally pushing to put a law on the books. Today a Senate committee voted to make the act punishable with a third degree fe

  March 10, 2009

• Kitty Goes to the Dogs

  January 15, 2009

• Letters from the Issue of August 21, 2008

  "The python is dangerous and can attack, strangle, and easily kill even a grown man. Why doesn't Selene try hunting pythons?"

  August 21, 2008

• Sugar-Coated Squabbles

  May 4, 2006

• Letters from the Issue of July 20, 2006

  July 20, 2006

• Bad Neighbors and Dead Dogs

  May 6, 2004

• Letters from the Issue of February 6, 2003

  February 6, 2003

• Best Natural Food/Vegetarian Restaurant

  May 11, 2000

• And You Thought Hot Flashes Were Bad

  July 18, 1996

• Letters

  June 17, 1992

• Pet Shop Boys Play Filllmore Miami Beach on September 9

  Earlier this year, the publicity machine known as PETA decided they'd get their name in the papers again by requesting the Pet Shop Boys change their name to the Rescue Shelter Boys. No really, they did. The request was respectfully declined, which I'm sure was a crushing blow to animal rights activists across the world. Now, after standing up to PETA, the synth-pop masterminds have announced a new tour with a September 9 date at the Fillmore  Miami Beach. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are to

  June 8, 2009

• What We Know About Cat Killer Suspect Tyler Weinman, the Arrest, and the Reaction

  Courtesy of Miami-Dade Corrections Tyler Weinman, not his class picture but his mugshot. Yes, he's actually smiling.Sometime after midnight this morning, police arrested 18-year-old Tyler Weinman at a party in Coral Gables for the recent string of horrific cat killings that have plagued Cutler Bay and Palmetto Bay.  Weinman, who attended Miami Palmetto Senior High, is being charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty, four counts of burglary, and 19 counts of improperly disposing of an ani

  June 14, 2009

• PETA Grasps at Cat Killer Straws to Push Anti-Dissection Campaign

  via DanPerry.com's FlickrNo, Mr. Meowington we do not want to cut you up, but can you scratch PETA for usRiptide never takes too kindly to organizations piggy backing on a big news story to push their agenda. Yeah, sure, it's PR 101, but it's just so annoying. So, on the heels of the Cat Killer hubbub along comes PETA to push their campaign to ban animal dissection from science classes. I am not unsympathetic to the cause. I mean, I don't remember anything I learned by dissecting

  June 17, 2009

• Che Guevara's Granddaughter Poses Topless for PETA

  via El MundoJust yesterday, PETA tried to jump on the coattails of the cat killer case by pushing their anti-dissection agenda, but we've got a feeling the fallout from their latest stunt is really going to make certain corners of Miami explode with outrage. They've convinced Lydia Guevara, granddaughter of Che and a vegetarian, to pose topless for a campaign with stylistic nods to her infamous granddad. In a preview pic obtained by El Mundo, Lydia is decked out in Che's

  June 18, 2009

• Dolphins Pass on Michael Vick, and Boy Is Greg Cote Upset

  ​The Miami Dolphins yesterday officially squashed any lingering rumors they had an interest in signing convicted felon Michael Vick, and boy, Miami Herald sports columnist Greg Cote sure is upset about it. In a column today, he calls the Dolphins "cowards," whose passing on Vick carried a "tinge of arrogance." In Cote's mind, the only people who care that Vick abused and killed dogs are "crackpot" PETA-ites. It's a classic false dichotomy. I don't mean they c

  July 29, 2009

• Mr. Clucky and Other Animals in the News

  August 6, 2009

• Animal Instincts

  August 20, 2009

• Letters from the Issue of August 27, 2009

  August 27, 2009

• Letters from the Issue of October 29, 2009

  October 29, 2009