By adamg - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 8:43pm

Back when the Charles River by Millennium Park was still mostly covered in ice, somebody's dog fell through into the water, and after firefighters arrived and got the dog out, somebody else lent some blankets with which to warm the pet up before being rushed to Angell Animal Medical Center. Read more.

By adamg - Sun, 03/02/2025 - 2:55pm

A disgusted resident files a 311 complaint about the lazy-ass dog owners who not only let their dogs loose in Millennium Park in West Roxbury, they've stopped cleaning up after them: Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 11:59am

A disgusted resident files a 311 complaint about something you wouldn't think you'd see inside the Prudential Center, and yet, there it was this morning: Read more.

By adamg - Fri, 12/20/2024 - 1:24pm

WFXT reports dogs attacked a home health aid on Brunswick Street in Dorchester yesterday, sending her to the hospital with serious leg injuries.

Last month, a Roxbury woman died after one of her four dogs attacked her.

By adamg - Thu, 12/19/2024 - 8:52pm

An East Boston man was arrested today on six counts of animal cruelty and six counts of animal cruelty by custodian, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 12/09/2024 - 12:59pm

The Dorchester Reporter chronicles the saga of Fats the Cat.

By adamg - Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:39pm

An elderly couple at home on 35 Dennison St. in Roxbury were attacked by one of their four dogs, which mauled the woman so badly she was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries to her arm, around 4:30 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - Sat, 11/16/2024 - 6:21pm

Among the people taking one of those Freedom Trail tours on the Common today was a woman with a terrier, a terrier wearing a tricorn hat.

By adamg - Fri, 11/08/2024 - 11:24am

The Boston Public Health Commission warns the pond on the Hyde Park/Dedham line off Sprague Street is now infested with a cyanobacteria algae bloom and it has shut the pond to public access - so don't jump in it, go fishing there or let your dog into the smaller of Boston's two great ponds. Read more.

By adamg - Sun, 10/27/2024 - 2:38pm

Jessi Murder-y spotted this family that storrows together at yesterday's annual canine costume parade in Jamaica Plain.

Last year:
Roslindale's first storrowing.

By adamg - Thu, 09/19/2024 - 12:16pm

An ISD housing inspector looking at a second-floor apartment at 194 Harold St. in Roxbury on Oct. 21, 2021 today sued the building's owners and property manager for the permanent injuries she says she suffered in a fall down the stairs after the manager's dog lunged at her. Read more.

By adamg - Wed, 09/18/2024 - 11:24pm

The Boston city animal shelter in Roslindale is now home to a young python, brought there after somebody found it Monday somewhere along Washington Street in Brighton - so somewhere between Brookline and Newton.

If Snakey looks familiar, contact Animal Care and Control at 617-635-1800 or [email protected].

By adamg - Wed, 07/10/2024 - 10:47pm

Boston Police report they are investigating the death of three dogs found in a U-Haul at 69 Edgewater Dr. in Mattapan around 9 p.m. on Tuesday as a case of animal abuse.

Police say anybody with information on how the dogs wound up in the truck can contact detectives at 617-343-5607 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or by texting TIP to CRIME (27463).

By adamg - Wed, 05/22/2024 - 4:41pm

A dog that attacked four people in a building in Brighton's Faneuil Gardens development last night is now at the city animal shelter in Roslindale for quarantine and for a dangerousness hearing, officials said today. Read more.

By adamg - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 11:48am

At 8:41 a.m., a concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint asking the city to do something about the rats digging holes along a wall of the dog park on Snow Hill Street in the North End. Read more.

By adamg - Wed, 03/13/2024 - 10:07pm

An alarmed citizen files a 311 complaint about a battle at the RUFF dog park on Snow Hill Street this evening: Read more.

By adamg - Sun, 03/03/2024 - 1:16pm

An annoyed citizen files a 311 complaint about irresponsible dog owners along Border Street in East Boston: Read more.

By adamg - Fri, 02/23/2024 - 11:19am

The MSPCA reports its trying to find the owner of a severely injured cat that a worker at the Stop&Shop on American Legion Highway in Roslindale found lying in the store parking lot as she left work shortly before 11 p.m. on Feb. 11. Read more.

By adamg - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 2:28pm

Josh Bittker reported yesterday spotting his favorite Seaport commuter: A guy on an battery-powered one-wheel thing, this time accompanied by a fuzzy little dog throwing down major McKayla Maroney vibes.

By adamg - Sun, 02/11/2024 - 1:52pm

Mary Ellen took Dolly the dog up to Castle Island for a walk yesterday.

They spotted a plump dunlin, a flock of them and a female common eider (also purple sandpipers, which to the untrained eye look just like dunlins, only more gray than brown): Read more.