Veterinary Medicine

Letters from the issue of January 20, 2011

Dog Named "Christie Brinkley" Bestiality Case: What Not to Name Your Pet

A Great Dane, A Christie Brinkley: Notice the Difference?​Last Friday, 64-year-old Armand M. Pacher of Aventura was arrested for suspicion of having sex with his female Great Dane. Pacher's lawyer says the whole thing is a miscommunication started by a bad joke. It doesn't help his case any, thoug ... More >>

Breed to Kill

A Great Dane, A Christie Brinkley: Notice the Difference?​Last Friday, 64-year-old Armand M. Pacher of Aventura was arrested for suspicion of having sex with his female Great Dane. Pacher's lawyer says the whole thing is a miscommunication started by a bad joke. It doesn't help his case any, thoug ... More >>

Heartbreak at 45 MPH

Scenes from the life of a racing greyhound.

Ex-North Miami Mayor Elton Gissendanner Is Back

A prison stay and bankruptcy can't keep him down.

Canine Killer

Riptide probes 15 weird deaths at the animal shelter.

Dolphin Dies at Miami Seaquarium

Riptide probes 15 weird deaths at the animal shelter.

R.I.P., Ernesto

Riptide probes 15 weird deaths at the animal shelter.

On Your Bark, Get Set, Go!

Riptide probes 15 weird deaths at the animal shelter.

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?

Event Horizon

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?

Cows to Cuba

A South Florida rancher is using bovine diplomacy to improve relations with the island nation

They Shoot Up Horses, Don't They?

Owner Michael Gill and trainer Mark Shuman, exonerated by lab test, hit back

Letters from the Issue of September 5, 2002

More puppy horror stories.

Letters from the Issue of August 22, 2002

More puppy-dog tales and gay-rights complaints

Puppy Dog Tales

Ever hear of coccidia, giardia, or kennel cough? Buy a dog from a pet store and you will.

Homey Rollers

Tired of battling expanding suburbs, Debra Flynn wants to pick up her 79-year-old house and move it

Best Way To Stick It To Your Pet

Dr. Robert Ferran

Mastering the Bat

Can a rare creature that recently fell to Earth be revived? Tune in to this bat station.

Flipper's Revenge

They're cute. They're cuddly. They're smart. And as the fiasco at Sugarloaf Key shows, they make humans do crazy things.

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They're cute. They're cuddly. They're smart. And as the fiasco at Sugarloaf Key shows, they make humans do crazy things.

24 Hours a Stray

The Humane Society's animal rescue drivers work hard to save the wounded, to rescue the sick and abandoned. But usually the endings are not so happy.

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

Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Sue

How does a primate end up at the center of a courtroom battle? When animal dealer Matthew Block is involved, it's not so difficult

Life's a Bitch

A Miami veternarian's assistant goes out of his way to rescue the greyhound industry's castoffs from the needle of death

Dead On Arrival, 119 Times Over

Indonesian crab-eating macaques are favored by medical researchers. But if Miami primate dealer Matthew Block's late-August shipment was bound for the lab, it never got that far.

It's a Dog's Life

Two years old and already he's undergone surgery twice for a bum knee. Spunky still limps, but who's going to pay?