Dogs

Reader: Byers junior high's charter school future means search for new dog park

Last week, Byron Graham wrote about the upcoming transition of Byers junior high from an unofficial dog park to a Denver School of Science and Technology charter school. One pet lover sees that as good news, even though it means finding a new place for her pooch.

Skinny Bitch's Rory Freedman on Beg and her reading tonight

Most fans will know author Rory Freedman as co-author of the bestselling Skinny Bitch, a lifestyle book disguised as a diet book. Now she's back to expand on her philosophy about animals in Beg: A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals. And to some people, it will seem radical. We talked to Freedman ... More >>

Photos: Pit bull lovers show off their pets during author/advocate Ken Foster's Denver stop

Ken Foster, the New Orleans-based author of I'm a Good Dog: Pit Bulls, America's Most Beautiful (and Misunderstood) Pet, spoke to a crowd of dog owners and advocates at the Tattered Cover Colfax last night. Foster's stop here was significant: Not only does Denver have a controversial breed ban on pi ... More >>

Bud Linton shoots pit bull dead after alleged attack on three other dogs

The local Team Pit-A-Full organization continues to push an online petition against breed-specific legislation exemplified by Denver's pit bull ban. But such efforts are complicated by stories like one out of Colorado Springs, in which Bud Linton, pictured, shot a pit bull dead after it allegedly a ... More >>

Colorado's history of dog stories is long in the tooth

Reader: Dog shooting was wrong, but if the pets were noisy, the owner deserves punishment

Latte.​Yesterday, we shared the story of Cristina Amaro, whose two small dogs, Latte and Swag, appear to have been shot to death. The post prompted one reader to castigate such actions while at the same time stressing that owners of noisy pets need to be take responsibility for their actions.

Need pilates for your dog? The Zoom Room in Longmont is about to have you covered

​In a Freudian sense, domestication is a pretty steep trade-off: For human beings (we call our domestication "civilization"), we get the benefits of safety, security and society, the comfortable pleasure of staking out some degree of order in an otherwise chaotic, dangerous world -- the price, ... More >>

12 dog-stabbing incidents in recent months -- and at least a dozen shmucks

Diamond.​Earlier this week, Matthew Weatherspoon was charged with stabbing a five-month-old bulldog puppy named Diamond after the dog nipped him. He is then accused of tossing the dog out of his apartment, where it was later discovered and taken to an animal hospital. Unconscionable? Yes. But ... More >>

A New Breed of Car Show

Pit bulls as service animals: Denver quietly changes its policy

​For more than two decades, Denver has tenaciously defended its pit bull ban. Years of lawsuits, protests and bad press have done nothing to unmoor Denver's political leadership from their conviction that this particular breed of dog is far too dangerous to allow within city limits. No except ... More >>

Dog shooting: Owner of bull mastiff shot after attacking greyhound gets banned-dog summons

Big pic below.​Update: As we noted yesterday, no charges were filed in the immediate aftermath of an incident in which a man shot a 140-pound dog after it attacked his greyhound -- and that remains the case at this writing. However, the owner of the dead pet -- a bullmastiff named Flato -- has ... More >>

Pit bull proponents take a bite out of City Hall today over service-dog ban and more

​City Hall will be going to the dogs today, with pit bull protesters converging on the building at 14th and Bannock streets at 11 a.m. today -- if the protesters can get around all that Big Air scaffolding. But there's already plenty of hot air in the dog-eat-dog world of pit bulls.

Reader: Pit bull attacks get fifteen to twenty times the coverage as ones by other breeds

​A vigorous conversation has taken root on our post about the Denver City Council rejecting a service-dog exemption for pit bulls. One interesting observation has to do with the way pit bulls are covered by the media in comparison with other dogs.

Pit-bull service-dog exemption rejected by Denver City Council

​Long before the Americans with Disabilities Act was revised to protect pit bulls as service dogs, critics have been snapping at Denver's 1989 ordinance that bans the breed. But last night, Denver City Council brushed aside both the critics and the feds in upholding the ban. And that bites!

Dances With Dogs

The dog days of summer have arrived for the vacant Church in the City

Pit bull ban: Disabled Vietnam, Gulf War vets sue Denver and Aurora for discriminating against their service dogs

Why is every body always picking on me?​A federal class-action suit involving disabled Coloradans -- two war veterans with psychological disorders -- and their service animals was filed Tuesday against Aurora, the City and County of Denver and its head of Animal Control. The two veterans, an ... More >>

Good dog! Canine heaven at National Western

Justice, an 11-month-old Great Dane, scopes the competition at the RMC dog show.​Every year around this time, the Westminster Kennel Club puts on its hifalutin, thoroughly mockable parade of purebreds, all vying to star in the next Christopher Guest movie. And around the same time, a down-home ... More >>

Cherry Pits

In Denver, Animal Control decides which dogs are pit bulls. But what happens if they're wrong?

Boulder takes a bite out of bad dog behavior

For two decades, pit bulls have been public enemy #1 in Denver. But maybe it's time for a recount.

Canine Carnival

The Festival of the Bastardino ensures every dog has its day.

Sheepish Fun

The best of the best face off at the Meeker Classic.

Dog Days of Summer

A Different Breed

Does the Chihuahua accurately represent Mexico?

Big, Big Cat Sighting: Shadow Canyon Trail

Cat's Newest Accessory

For the Dogs

Puppy Love

Nintendogs' charm will win over the most jaded of gamers.

Follow That Story

It's the Pits

Best Way to Make a Fast Friend

Recycled Racers of Colorado

Follow That Story

Yap Dance

Denver Goes to the Dogs

The Rocky Mountain Cluster Dog Show will give viewers paws.

A Tasty Treat for Dog Owners

Rally-O isn't really ruff on pooches

Letters to the Editor

From the week of June 17, 2004

Breed Between the Lines

Owning a pit bull look-alike can be the pits.

Fetching Idea

Disc Dogs teaches Rover the rules

Good Dog

Dog school lets mutts strut their stuff.

The Straight Poop

Cheesman neighbors worry that their park is going to the dogs.

Best Place to Dog-Watch on a Saturday Morning

Fillmore St. between 2nd and 3rd avenues

Sporting Chance

How and where to get in the game

Free For All

Highlighting the week's greatest gratis event

Best Pet Travel Guide

Doggone

Best Flying Canine

Clever Corbin

Best Self-Service Dog Wash

Stinky Dog No More

Dog People

Puttin' on the dog at the Rocky Mountain Classic.

Dog Is My Co-Pilot

MOUTHING OFF

MONDO CANINE