Chicago-based Portillo’s hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches are well known to northerners, but weren’t so much to Texans until this year. The restaurant chain opened its first Texas location in The Colony in January at 5752 Grandscape Blvd. But it was only the beginning. Since The Colony location, Portillo’s has opened restaurants in Fort […]
Tag: Dogs
Pennsylvania Animal Shelter Celebrates Having No Dogs For First Time In 47 Years
It’s a howl-iday miracle! A Pennsylvania animal shelter celebrated Friday after its facility had no dogs for the first time in nearly half a century. “Two weeks ago our kennels were almost filled, now we don’t have any dogs in the building at all,” read a Facebook post by the Adams County Society for the […]
Man arrested over hit-and-run in which ‘loving mother’ and two dogs died
A man has been arrested after a “loving” mother and two dogs were killed days before Christmas in a suspected hit-and-run crash in Essex. Marie Theobald, 48, from Hainault, was walking with two dogs named Riley and Honey on Manford Way, Chigwell, when she was hit by a car, believed to be a white Seat […]
Dogs at animal shelter looking for homes
A vet explains how to keep dogs safe from respiratory illness outbreak during the holidays
Dogs in at least 16 states have reportedly become extremely sick in recent weeks with a fever, cough, lethargy and other upper respiratory symptoms. Reports of the illness, whose origins and cause are unknown, have made some dog owners reconsider whether to travel with, or board, their dogs this holiday season. Yahoo News spoke to […]
4 adults, a child, 2 dogs and a cat displaced after fire in Virginia Beach
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Four adults, one child, two dogs and a cat are displaced after a fire in Virginia Beach on Dec. 17, officials said. Virginia Beach Fire Department responded to a fire on the 440 block of Bernadotte Court in the Foxfire Subdivision. The crew was dispatched around 5:50 p.m. and arrived […]
Raccoon dogs did not start COVID-19, new study says
The raccoon dog did it: That was the explosive takeaway of a genomic analysis conducted in March by a trio of scientists who had scrutinized data from a market in Wuhan, China, where the pandemic was thought to have begun. Until then, evidence for that conviction had been scant. “This is a really strong indication […]
Shelter Dog’s Face After Getting Adopted Just in Time for Christmas
Shelter Dog’s Face After He Didn’t Get Adopted Again Breaks Hearts
A shelter from New York has broken hearts all over the internet after sharing the story of Rocky, a 3-year-old pit bull who still hasn’t found his forever home. The post shared on Facebook in November, under the username Lollypop Farm, the Humane Society of Greater Rochester, features a picture of Rocky with his head […]