Cats

"Good Job Bub": Lil Bub and Friendz Turns the Internet Cat Video Into an Adorable Documentary

Hibiscus Island Dog Rescue Endangers Animals, Complaints Say

Florida Man Who Stuffed Kittens In Freezer Is Also Roommates With Double-Shooting Suspect

Rodney Blanchard had already solidified his bid for "Worst Person In Florida" when police came to his mobile home this weekend to find that he'd stuffed four live kittens into plastic bags and trapped them in his freezer. But this is Florida, and Blanchard knew he faced stiff competition.Today, he u ... More >>

Florida Man Arrested After Four Kittens Found In His Freezer

Rodney J. Blanchard had a guest over at his home whom he asked to get a beer out of the freezer. When the woman opened the ice box door instead of finding brewskies, she found four small kittens. Blanchard, a 49-year-old St. Petersburg resident, has now been arrested on four charges of animal cruelt ... More >>

VIDEO: Stray Cat Interrupts Local Weather Report

WLTV's chief meteorologist Eduardo Rodriquez was just trying to deliver the weather forecast on Miami's Univision station when he was unexpectedly joined by a stray cat who wandered in from the parking lot. This shouldn't be much of a surprise to anyone, as well all know stray cats do whatever the h ... More >>

Cute Overload

University of Florida Has Been Overtaken by Feral Cats

The University of Florida's Gainesville campus is starting to resemble the smelly apartment of an old cat lady. The school has been overtaken by more than 100 feral cats, and it's ignited a war on campus over what to do with them. While the school current's policy could lead to many of the cats bein ... More >>

Golden Grove

Osama's Translator, Locked Up in Gitmo, Says LeBron James Is a "Very Bad Man"

Most of the world has moved on from LeBron James' decision to leave Cleveland and play for the Miami Heat, but at least one man is still mad about it. The lawyer for Muhammad Rahim, an Al-Qaeda member who served as a translator for Osama bin Laden and who is currently being held in Guantanamo Bay, h ... More >>

Seven Reasons Your Cat Hates The Internet

​They're snuggly. They're snooty. They're hilarious. Is it any wonder our Internet tubes are clogged with cats? They're like a living, breathing, addictive substance -- one huff, and you become a raging Elmyra: "I'm gonna hug you and kiss you and love you forever!"We estimate that for more than a ... More >>

Dog Adoption at Miami-Dade Shelter Halted, 23 Dogs Euthanized After Viral Outbreak

​Miami-Dade Animal Services began the year by euthanizing 23 dogs January 1 after the animals showed signs of an upper respiratory infection. Lab results show 18 of those dogs tested positive for distemper, and now the animal shelter has put a stop to dog adoption for the next two weeks.

North Bay Village's possum problem blamed on cat food

Family in Dysfunction

More Than Half of America's Pets are Fat

​America's ever expanding weight problem: not just for humans anymore!According to The Wall Street Journal, more than 50 percent of America's pet cats and dogs are now considered overweight, with about one fifth considered obese. You guys, despite what the comic page says, you are NOT actually sup ... More >>

Letters from the issue of February 3, 2011

Casablanca Hotel's kitty killings

The world's fanciest cat-poop map

Miami Beach Hookworm Scare Leads City To Create World's Fanciest Cat Poop Map

There's a four-foot-tall map hanging inside Miami Beach City Hall, a high-resolution satellite image of an oceanfront slice of town. The grainy brown dunes are speckled with red and green dots that mark points carefully calibrated by a Global Positioning System. It could be the cartographic reckonin ... More >>

Three More Cases of Miami Beach Hookworm Blamed on Cat Poop

​Feral cats using the sands of Miami Beach as a giant communal litter box has led to an increasing outbreak of hookworm. The Miami-Dade Department of Health has confirmed that three new cases of hookworm have appeared in humans. Great, we've now got hookworm, cholera and dengue fever war ... More >>

Runway Pinups

Florida's Magical Cat Village Is a Pussy Paradise

​Somewhere in the northern Florida town of Madison lies a magical place where cats roam free in an expansive kitty village. The cats, all 660 of them, can visit kitty Wal-Mart or attend cat church. There are scratching posts and climbing places a plenty. It's a paradise for pussies, and it's all t ... More >>

Cough It Up

Hialeah Has Most Roadkill in the County

sean via flickerccYanael Rodriguez, a shy 24-year-old with a handsome smile, might have the strangest job in Miami-Dade. It's called being an "animal disposal technician" and it's a fancy way of saying that you scrape roadkill for a living. There are two county employees who do this full-time, and t ... More >>

Snap Under Pressure

What’s New, Pussycat?

Over the Weekend: New Found Glory Secret Show, Cat Show, Leonard Cohen and Bassnectar

Summer is finally over! The insufferable heat finally broke this weekend and its officially fall in South Florida. Yes, we didn't turn on our AC all weekend and we couldn't be more excited. So we hope you enjoyed the reason why we all moved here in the first place.We're sure you didn't stay in this ... More >>

Accused Cat Killer Sure Knew a Lot About Dissecting Cats

What better way to start off your post-holiday week than getting some gruesome new details in the case of alleged serial cat killer Tyler Weinman? After weeks of local media fighting for its release, the arrest affidavit for the case is finally available. Police had their eyes on Weinman for som ... More >>

You Know You've Impressed Fellow Animal Lovers At Bar Rosso's Pooches and Piccolini When...

Jackie SayetI fetch like a dog. Can I come, too?Your frisky feline struts her stuff to the soiree on a leash. Kitty extends a peace paw to Jack Russell.You show up dressed as your pet.Your pet shows up dressed as you. Fido gets carded, and flashes his own collar-handy ID, his graduation certifi ... More >>

Cougar's Owner Knew How Dangerous the Cat Could Be

Chaos, here with his owner, attacked a 16 year old girl. Chaos, an appropriately named captive cougar, mauled a 16 year old girl after pinning her to the ground over the weekend. Thankfully, She's expected to make a full recovery. About a year ago New Times profiled Chaos's owner, Alan Rigerman, ... More >>

New Times Cat Food Tasting Report

What Pete Did Next

The nine (and counting?) lives of Brit-rock’s weirdly compelling screwup

Miami: Not So Animal Friendly

R.I.P., Ernesto

End of the Road

March on the Penguins

Letters from the Issue of April 6, 2006

“Miami is moving from a drug-trafficking, superfluous, decadent city to a cultural metropolis”

Striking While It’s Hot

Front Line

Local animal rescuer opens her home to unwanted pets

Death by the Pound

Hidden from the public and cloaked in euphemism, regulated execution of dogs and cats is a routine horror. Can a new animal services director make a difference?

Panthers Battle Blues

Brian Setzer

Rockabilly Riot, Volume One: A Tribute to Sun Records (Surfdog)

Night&Day

Local Heroes

Best Public Park

Greynolds Park

Night & Day

May 21 - 27, 1998

Get Shorty

A stubby-legged feline fad has the fur flying between entrepreneurial cat fanciers and animal-welfare activists

Letters

One Million and Counting

Man Bites Dog Owner

Rabies didn't kill his faithful pooch, but Dade's rabies-vaccine enforcement chief was an early the death of pet owner Randy Natalino

Move over, Morris

With a little help from Hector the cat man, Buster is clawing his way toward fame