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Veterinary Medicine

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    California Pelican's Bent Beak Bent No More Thanks to First Emergency Surgery

    The Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach is cheering the success of the first surgery to repair the bent beak of an American White Pelican whose jaw was out of alignment. When the call came in about "Nigel," as the Pelican has been nicknamed, it had lost weight, its wing was tangled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Ringling Bros. Pays $270k Fine Over Animal Care--and Disagrees with PETA About It

    Photo by Keith May/OC Weekly​We explored in August the Rashomon reactions of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to an adult elephant hitting the ground while being loaded into a boxcar in Anaheim, with PETA claiming a sick Sarah collapsed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    PETA Chides Ringling Bros. for Federal Inspection of Tiger Hurt in Anaheim and Ill Elephant in LA

    ​Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was cited for "serious violations" of the federal Animal Welfare Act during this summer's engagements at the Honda Center in Anaheim and Staples Center in Los Angeles, an animal rights group charges.A U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection report ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    [UPDATED with Jail for Kimberly Nizato:] Who Left Courage the German Shepherd to Die?

    ​UPDATED, AUG. 15, 2 P.M.: Irvine veterinary technician Kimberly Nizato was sentenced today in Norwalk to 30 days in Los Angeles County Jail, three years of probation and an order to pay restitution for leaving Courage the German shepherd to die.The dog, who weighed only 37 pounds when he was turn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Elephant on Ground Near Boxcar Brings Rashomon Explanations from Ringling Bros. and PETA

    ​People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) claims that a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephant collapsed while being loaded into a rail boxcar in Anaheim following Sunday night's finale at the Honda Center.Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait has been sent a letter from PETA "urging h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Who Left German Shepherd to Die?

    UPDATE: An arrest has been made (details below) . . . When they catch whoever left three-year-old German Shepherd Courage to starve--an anonymous donor has put up $1,000 to find the dickwad--how about we tie him or her to a tree for five weeks, force feeding a diet of dirt and rocks and forbidding a ... More >>

  • News

    September 3, 2009

    Who Killed Tootsie? And Should Her Owner Get Paid for Her Emotional Distress?

    UPDATE: An arrest has been made (details below) . . . When they catch whoever left three-year-old German Shepherd Courage to starve--an anonymous donor has put up $1,000 to find the dickwad--how about we tie him or her to a tree for five weeks, force feeding a diet of dirt and rocks and forbidding a ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 14, 2005

    VCA Arroyo Animal Hospital

    UPDATE: An arrest has been made (details below) . . . When they catch whoever left three-year-old German Shepherd Courage to starve--an anonymous donor has put up $1,000 to find the dickwad--how about we tie him or her to a tree for five weeks, force feeding a diet of dirt and rocks and forbidding a ... More >>

  • News

    July 26, 2001

    Oops! They Did It Again

    Mass slaughter reveals a litany of problems at OCs least-loved pound

  • News

    June 29, 2000

    Santa Animal

    City officials say horror stories may put an end to flawed animal-control problem

  • News

    May 4, 2000

    Helter Shelter

    More true tales of animal abuse

  • News

    January 20, 2000

    Revenge of the Cats

    Outbreak of feline distemper at county shelter puts an end to the reign of Richard Evans

  • News

    December 2, 1999

    Killing Joke

    Animal Controls required spay-and-neuter plan has no balls

  • News

    May 20, 1999

    Pet Hell

    Somebody please put the county's animal shelter out of its misery

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