Keep your dog, lose your parking space
Residents who have snuck dogs into a no-dogs-allowed Brooklyn housing co-op are being told to get rid of their dogs, or face monthly $100 fines and the loss of their parking spaces. The co-op board...
View ArticleManiacs, monkeys and the Motel 6
In a way, this might not be the best time to sing the praises of Motel 6 – it being in the news now for leaving the light on for one Jared Lee Loughner. Authorities say the Tucson man rented a room...
View ArticleSquatting and plotting in Federal Hill
For the past week, Ace and I have been enjoying the latest in our continuing series of lodgings — digs that have ranged over the past eight months from boat to trailer, motel room to tent, friend’s...
View ArticleAdventures in househunting, Craigslist style
Where I’d like to live and what I can afford are two different realms, two very different realms – a fact I bring up not because I’m the first person to experience that phenomenon, but because it is...
View ArticleNight at the museum
In our final days in Baltimore, Ace and I shifted from a house that was empty to one that was very full – of art, and art supplies, and things that, in the homeowner/artist’s view, could, with a little...
View ArticleTales of debasement: Living 6 feet under
One of the disadvantages of living six feet under – aside from the lack of sunlight, of which we’ve already spoken – is the worms. I measured the other day and determined that the entrance to the...
View ArticleKayla can stay, landlord must pay
The landlords of a Boston apartment building have been ordered to pay $25,000 to a tenant with HIV/AIDS for trying to force the man to get rid of his dog. The ruling, issued by the Massachusetts...
View ArticleChester Drawers: More fun on Craigslist
Y’all know how much I love Craigslist — the website where you can click your way across the country in search of used stuff, finding everything from hookahs to hookers, often right there in your own...
View ArticleArtist needs his therapy dog, state says
The state of Illinois has taken sides with a Chicago artist who says his condo association has no right to separate him from a dog that helps him fight depression. Nio Tavlos believes his 12-pound...
View ArticleVet faces eviction over PTSD dog
What at least one doctor prescribed, a New York housing complex says must go — a Shih Tzu that helps a seven-year Army veteran cope with his post-traumatic stress. Eugene Ovsishcher returned from a...
View ArticleBrooklyn dog survives six-story fall from roof
A one-year-old dog survived being thrown off the roof a six-story housing project in Brooklyn. Though all her legs were broken and had to be repaired with plates and screws, she was expected to...
View ArticleMarine Corps institutes blanket breed ban
The U.S. Marine Corps –which had outlawed pit bulls, wolf hybrids, Rottweilers and any other dog with “dominant traits of aggression” at several of its bases — has now instituted a blanket, worldwide...
View ArticleYou gotta love this landlord
Landlord Judy Guth has some strict rules about pets. If you don’t have one, she won’t rent to you. And if a resident of her 12-unit apartment house in North Hollywood loses a pet, they must get...
View ArticleSaying goodbye to dog who gave him a boost
A formerly homeless man said goodbye earlier this month to a dog who gave his life some purpose. Raymond Goynes was living in a refrigerator box on the streets of New York when he first met Sonja, a...
View ArticleJessie the beagle’s castle under the stairs
Tom Wadsworth took a storage area under a staircase and converted it into a Victorian cottage retreat for his beagle, Jessie. For just a little over £100 — about $130 — Wadsworth, who lives in...
View ArticleWhen you’re feeling way older than your dog
I’m still a few days away from reclaiming my dog Jinjja, being cared for by a friend while I recover from some recent surgery, but I did stop by to take him for a test walk last week. (That’s not us in...
View ArticleColorado bill would prohibit discriminating against dogs because of their size
Apartment complexes have them. Homeowners associations have them. Motels have them, too — rules that allow dogs to be banned because of their size. Now, a Colorado state representative wants to correct...
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