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June 6, 2013Dogs just want to have fun -- and fortunately, Denver has no shortage of places where you can take your pet. The Mile High City has dog-friendly salons, bars, stores and parks, of course. Here are ten places you and your dog will love this summer:
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May 7, 2013Most 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 >>
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November 28, 2012Ken 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 >>
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July 2, 2012Take a look at these cats: These are the Amazing Acro-Cats, which have skills that make even the cutest of house cats look like Garfield's fatter, more sarcastic cousins. The second I saw this photo, I wondered (and then doubted) whether my cat has similar chops -- whether she's secretly a showcat w ... More >>
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February 24, 2012The 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 >>
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September 28, 2011No, he didn't get a crown, Dr. Aubrey J. Lavizzo informs me, when the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association named him the 2011 CVMA Veterinarian of the Year. But he did get "a free lunch for me and my wife, Gale" -- and a round of applause from his colleagues in recognition of his decades of servi ... More >>
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July 14, 2011In 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 >>
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July 1, 2011Diamond.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 >>
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June 16, 2011Video below.The Rocky Mountain Alley Cat Alliance is at it again. The Feline Fix organization, which has promoted spaying and neutering via unique campaigns involving Tom Cat condoms applied by the indefatigable Nurse Nancy is now tackling B.C.H.O.B.C.S.I.D. -- Baby Cats Having Other Baby Cat ... More >>
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April 11, 2011Welcome to the cat show.While you were outside enjoying the beautiful springtime weather in Denver this last weekend, people from around the country were showing off their pussies.
That's right. Hundreds of cat owners and breeders gathered for the Springtime in the Rockies all-breed cat sho ... More >>
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March 22, 2011Nurse Nancy, the alter ego of Amy Angelilli, executive director of the Rocky Mountain Alley Cat Alliance's The Feline Fix, has used plenty of unusual methods to stop kitty overpopulation, including satirical Tom Cat Condoms.
Her latest gambit -- a video in which Nancy plays detective to inve ... More >>
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January 21, 2011City 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.
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December 10, 2010A 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.
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December 7, 2010Long 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!
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September 22, 2010Nurse Nancy protecting a banana.Last month, we told you about Tom Cat Condoms, whose slogan is "Prevent a litter, cover your critter." The real deal? Hardly. Instead, they're a satirical tool wielded by the Feline Fix, an affiliate of the Rocky Mountain Alley Cat Alliance, to encourage pet sp ... More >>
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June 7, 2010Photo by Anthony CameraKristen Des Marais, on the prowl. The last time I saw Kristen Des Marais, she was trying to track dozens of feral cats that had set up a fast-breeding colony in the crawl spaces under a Denver apartment complex. Des Marais and volunteer Carol Tudor were trapping the cat ... More >>
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March 31, 2010Why 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 >>
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February 12, 2010Justice, 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 >>
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October 16, 2009Today, October 16, is National Feral Cat Day. This is not really a day of celebration; it's more of a day of scolding and sobering statistics, since the growing phenomenon of feral cats has a lot to do with the human capacity to abandon domesticated animals. Thirty thousand cats are euthanize ... More >>
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September 11, 2008The Festival of the Bastardino ensures every dog has its day.
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February 17, 2005The Rocky Mountain Cluster Dog Show will give viewers paws.
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September 30, 2004Rally-O isn't really ruff on pooches
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June 17, 2004From the week of June 17, 2004
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June 10, 2004Owning a pit bull look-alike can be the pits.
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May 1, 2003Dog school lets mutts strut their stuff.
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March 27, 2003Fillmore St. between 2nd and 3rd avenues
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February 13, 2003How and where to get in the game
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February 15, 2001Puttin' on the dog at the Rocky Mountain Classic.
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June 29, 2000The Cat Hospital of Wheat Ridge
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