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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Young python at the Boston animal shelter.
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].
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).
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.
Death to rats - and any dogs that eat the things (from second complaint).
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.
An alarmed citizen files a 311 complaint about a battle at the RUFF dog park on Snow Hill Street this evening: Read more.
An annoyed citizen files a 311 complaint about irresponsible dog owners along Border Street in East Boston: Read more.
Dr. Wendy Huang treats the cat at Angell (photo by MSPCA-Angell).
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.
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.
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.
A disgruntled citizen with a large German Shepherd mix files a 311 complaint and a plea about the warning she got at Healy Field on Washington Street in Roslindale: Read more.
A scared citizen files a 311 complaint about the northbond stretch of Centre Street that is really the parkway where houses sit in front of the Arboretum just before the Giant Rotary of Doom in Jamaica Plain: Read more.
In a region now overflowing with guinea pigs, the Boston City Council voted today added the fuzzy animated potatoes to the list of animals that can't be sold in city pet shops. Read more.
White rabbits stood out in the brown of the marsh.
Hugmajesty reports she was leading a bird-watching tour at Belle Isle Marsh in East Boston today when she and her group came upon more than a dozen big white bunnies in the underbrush. Read more.
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