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Newsweek
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Dog Can't Contain Excitement Over Hearing Dad's Home—But There's a Twist
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Internet users can't get enough of a dog's delighted reaction when she realized her owner was home, but as it turns out, he'd been there all along. There's nothing quite like a dog's excitable reaction when you walk through the door and the overload of affection they like to provide. But dog owner Bobby from Maryland doesn't even need to leave his home to generate that kind of reaction from his Annabelle the American Bully. Indeed, his wife, Danni Keane, captured the moment she told Annabelle that "daddy's home," just to see the sheer excitement. Annabelle quickly ran over and lavished Bobby with plenty of fuss—despite the fact that he hadn't been anywhere. Keane loves seeing the joy in Annabelle's face when she thinks her dad has just got back, telling Newsweek that it makes her "heart happy." Annabelle's adorable welcome home party consisted of endless slobbery kisses, tail wags, and climbing all over Bobby. Annabelle smothering her owner Bobby with kisses when she thought he'd just returned home. Annabelle smothering her owner Bobby with kisses when she thought he'd just returned home. @annabelle_and_norman / TikTok "I think it's cute how excited she gets when he's home," Keane said. "It's also a good way to distract her from barking. She had been standing at the fence barking at her squirrel friends in the tree, so in order to get her to take a break, I decided to tell her daddy's home, thinking she would run over to him and leave the squirrels alone." Annabelle stayed on the garden couch with her dad for several minutes before getting distracted by another squirrel in the tree. In that sense, she's a complete opposite to her littermate Norman. "Norman is a momma's boy, and Annabelle is a daddy's girl. Norman is very laid back and he likes to sleep and eat. Annabelle is an energizer bunny who never stops. She's always on alert, waiting for something to bark at," Keane said. She continued: "Norman bonded with me and Annabelle bonded with my husband when they were just a few weeks old. Norman still needs his daddy time though and will whine when he needs his love. Annabelle needs me when she's overtired." After capturing Annabelle's hilarious reaction to "her favorite words," Keane shared the clip on TikTok (@annabelle_and_norman). Needless to say, social media users can't cope with her excitement, and the video has gone viral with over 1.7 million views and 314,800 likes at the time of writing. The online response has been overwhelming, as many lauded Annabelle's undeniable joy, while some dog owners could relate to the love bombing. Annabelle will react this way without fail if her dad is home, regardless of how long it's been since she last gave him kisses. However, if he's gone out, it's a very different story. Keane told Newsweek: "If he isn't home yet, she will whine and go from the window to the door looking for him. She gets upset if she can't find him or if he takes too long coming inside the house." In the days since the video went viral, it has already gained more than 700 comments on TikTok. One comment reads: "I didn't know he left, how embarrassing, welcome home!" Another TikTok user wrote: "She is like omg I haven't seen you all day." Another person added: "Well to be fair, she hadn't seen him in a solid 30 seconds..." While one commenter joked: "Why do they only come in too smart for their own good, and head empty?" Do you have funny and adorable videos or pictures of your pet you want to share? We want to see the best ones! Send them in to life@ and they could appear on our site.
Press and Journal
15-05-2025
- Press and Journal
Oban man had to put his pet dog down - so strangled it in the bathroom
An Oban man who pleaded guilty to strangling his American Bully dog has been warned he faces jail for the 'awful' crime. Harry Russell, 42, killed his dog, called Rex, after a neighbour complained about his pet's aggressive behaviour. After agreeing with his then-partner that Rex should be put down, Russell took the dog into a bathroom and throttled him to death, Oban Sheriff Court was told. Russell appeared in court yesterday and admitted carrying out the killing at an address on Hazeldene Crescent, Oban, in April 2021. Sheriff Euan Cameron told Russell that, given his criminal record, his actions crossed the custodial threshold 'and then some'. Depute fiscal Raeesa Ahmed said that Russell, of Kerrera Terrace, Oban, and his then partner had adopted Rex at the age of two. Rex had a psychological disorder and was aggressive to other dogs. She said: 'During April 2021, the complainer was in the locus when a neighbour had cause for complaint about Rex's behaviour. 'The accused had gone out to get Rex and brought him into the living room of the house. 'The accused and the complainer agreed that Rex's behaviour was not acceptable, so they agreed they would have Rex put down. 'The complainer said she would contact the vets to have the dog put down, but the accused stopped her, saying 'I have to do this myself'. 'Russell had been drinking heavily at the time and was behaving aggressively to the complainer. He said it was his dog. 'The complainer had seen him angry before but did not expect him to kill the dog.' The woman went outside to check on her children, and when she came back 10 minutes later, she saw Russell kneeling over the dog in the bathroom. He appeared to be strangling it. 'The complainer said 'what the hell are you doing?,'' Miss Ahmed said. 'He didn't look up and continued to strangle the dog. It went on for a minute. 'Thinking [Rex] was dead. Russell was then angry. 'The complainer said the dog Rex was not moving. It was at that moment that the accused and complainer heard the dog gargle. 'The complainer told Russell to leave the dog alone. The accused ignored her and got back on top of the dog to strangle him.' Rex died moments later. The complainer then dragged Rex's body into the bathroom and exited the room via the window. 'That evening, the complainer took the dog to be buried at a place where he liked to walk.' The complainer was said to be 'terrified' of the accused and kept what had happened secret, telling people 'Rex had been put down'. But later she reported it to the police. The defence agent for JBM Law said they would reserve mitigation until the case is called again on June 11, but told the court: 'On the date of the offence, the neighbour had complained that [Rex] had bitten another dog.' The solicitor also noted that since the incident, Russell had turned his life around. Sheriff Euan Cameron said: 'What an utterly, awful, awful, awful thing to do. I am appalled by what I have heard. 'Because you have never served a custodial sentence, and you are already subject to a community payback order, I am calling for a criminal justice social work report. 'I am also seeking a restriction of liberty order assessment, and at the next calling, I will consider the Crown's motion for a disqualification order.' The disqualification order — if granted — could restrict Russell's ability to own or look after a dog or other animals in the future. Sheriff Cameron added: 'Custody is a possibility here, but I will reserve that decision until I have everything in front of me.'
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Yahoo
25 animal cruelty cases filed in recent weeks, L.A. County DA says
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced it is pursuing 25 new animal cruelty cases, including 18 felonies filed over the last six weeks. The cases, according to D.A. Nathan Hochman, highlight his office's attempts to bring to justice those accused of violently abusing animals. On Tuesday, Hochman held a press conference alongside local law enforcement leaders and members of the D.A.'s Office investigatory team to announce the charges in the various cases. 'If you harm an animal in our community, we are watching you — and we will find you,' Hochman said in a release issued Tuesday afternoon. 'Animal cruelty is a serious crime. It's also a red flag for possible future violence and we treat it exactly as it should be treated — with zero tolerance and aggressive prosecution.' Among those charged with felony animal cruelty are: Esteban Garcia, 28, who is accused of dropping a dog on her head, kicking her, and then throwing her into a stack of tires 'where she was left to die.' The dog, a 5-year-old bulldog named Adriana, survived and is receiving care by the Animal Assistance League of Orange County. It was later revealed the dog had illegal drugs in her system. Joseph Melnyk, 51, is accused of throwing his girlfriend's 4-year-old terrier mix off of a balcony at her Hollywood apartment during a domestic dispute. The dog, Charlie, died from its injuries and, and a medical examination determined the dog suffered previous abuse. This crime, Hochman's office said, is an example of animal cruelty coming as an extension of domestic violence. Marc Ibanez, 27, is accused of dragging a dog behind a business in Santa Fe Springs and stabbing it with a sharp object. The dog, a 9-year-old German shepherd named Leo, suffered lacerations to its forehead and chest. A 13-inch piece of glass with dog hair embedded in it was found near the scene. Micheala Urquidi, 22, is accused of strangling a 2-year-old American Bully that he was pet-sitting at a home in San Fernando. The dog, Chula, was found dead inside the home by its owners. Blaise Prymmer, 23, is accused of trying to hang his family's dog at their La Verne home. Unsuccessful, he then beat the dog, an older corgi/chihuahua mix named Hope, with a crowbar until she died. He told authorities that the dog's barking was preventing him from sleeping. Emmanuel Perdomo, 43, was charged with felony counts of animal cruelty and arson, for allegedly setting fire to an animal cage with a cat inside, then disposing the the animal's body, kicking it and photographing it. Miguel Abadmunoz, 44, is accused of using a butane torch to set a 10-year-old Siamese cat on fire in the Pico-Union neighborhood. The cat was later euthanized due to the severity of its injuries. Arturo Morales, 55, is accused of running a cockfighting ring out of his backyard. Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies discovered a bag of dead roosters, including one with a blade attached to its leg, along with multiple cages labeled with names and weights, but no food or water. Nearby, a refrigerator containing 'hematopoietic stimulant' was found, officials said. Fighting chickens are often injected with stimulants to enhance their aggression, according to the Animal Legal and Historical Center. Donald Jeffes, 40, was charged with felony animal cruelty on April 21, after surveillance cameras inside a downtown L.A. apartment building captured him allegedly carrying his dog, Rusty, by the collar and whipping him several times with a metal chain. Alexander Cueva, 28, faces charges for felony animal cruelty after video appeared to show him dragging his young German Shepherd mix by the neck, slamming her to the pavement and the kicking her in the face as she lay motionless. He's then seen riding away on his skateboard and dragging the dog out of frame. These felony cases were all investigated by local law enforcement agencies, and potential sentences range from three years in county jail to as many as 13 years in state prison. 'Our Department is working closely with Los Angeles County Animal Control, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, and community partners to ensure all cases of animal cruelty are fully investigated and prosecuted,' Sheriff Robert Luna added. LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton said investigators pursue animal cruelty cases with 'integrity and intensity.' 'Despite the loss of our Animal Cruelty Task Force in early 2021, we take animal cruelty investigations seriously, and we investigate these cases in a manner that lead to the successful arrests and prosecutions of the alleged suspects,' Hamilton said. Those who witness serious instances of animal abuse are urged to call 911 and file a report. Otherwise, reports can be made by contacting your local animal services agency or law enforcement agency's non-emergency line. Additional information about the various types of animal cruelty, and how to recognize and report them, can be found here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.
New Statesman
30-04-2025
- Politics
- New Statesman
Lawrence Newport: 'It's more than system failure – it's people failure'
Photographed by David Sandison for The New Statesman One spring afternoon in 2023, Lawrence Newport was out walking his dog in a local park in south London when he saw what he initially thought were two pit bull terriers hanging from a tree. He moved closer. 'They were triple the size of a pit bull and were gripping a branch,' Newport, who was working as a law lecturer at Royal Holloway, told me. 'But I knew from my law degree that pit bulls had been banned in Britain.' The ferocity of the dogs disturbed him and after returning home, he researched dog attacks in Britain, which he discovered had increased significantly since the pandemic. A disproportionate number of the attacks, including fatal attacks, which he plotted on a graph, were by the American Bully, also known as the XL Bully. The two dogs in the park were Bullies. On 6 June he published a Substack article provocatively headlined 'Why are so many children dying to dogs in the UK?'. The reason, he wrote, answering his own question, was the rise in the number of XL Bullies, which are known for their strength and stamina, and began arriving here in 2014. The article, in which he said Bullies should be banned, 'went viral'. He followed it by posting a video on the same theme on YouTube, after which he was contacted by a victim-support group. 'There were a lot of people who would speak in private but few would speak out publicly because they feared the consequences. I was persuaded to go public.' Newport became the de facto leader of the campaign to ban the XL Bully and shared research with special advisers he knew who worked in the Conservative government. The campaign developed momentum: on 1 February 2024 it became a criminal offence to own an XL Bully without a valid certificate of exemption. Newport felt vindicated, but there were personal costs. 'The entire academic and policy establishment is against you if you go public on something like this,' he said. 'And you receive direct threats from owners, from dog fighters.' For months he was subject to sustained online abuse and death threats. At one point, he and his family were advised by an off-duty police officer to leave London for several weeks because of fears over their safety. Royal Holloway received a daily stream of anonymous emails in which defamatory allegations were made against Newport. 'It was very intense and driven by pure emotive hatred. It really affects you and I hid away for nearly a year.' But he has returned and, having resigned his academic post at the end of 2023, Newport, 34, is leading two new campaigns: one dedicated to promoting economic growth, the other to 'crushing crime' (he also wants a cross-party inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal). He became interested in the criminal justice system because of the number of people he knew who'd had mobile phones or bikes stolen in London without any police action being taken. He is adept at using video and social media to popularise his campaigns and is encouraged that 'you can reach huge numbers of people online very easily and quickly'. Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe He has since become close to Dominic Cummings ('we bonded over campaigns and death threats'), whose political intuition he praises, and his work is being noticed inside the Labour government; I was first alerted to him by a senior adviser to a cabinet minister. In March, Newport – or Dr Lawrence Newport, as he calls himself on social media using the professional honorific (he has a PhD in history) – organised a cross-party event in Bristol on growth at which the speakers included Cummings, Chris Curtis, co-leader of the 110-strong Growth Group of Labour MPs, and Zia Yusuf, chair of Reform UK. In one sense, unlike Cummings, who in the early years of the coalition government worked as an adviser to Michael Gove at the Department of Education before leading the campaign for Brexit, Newport comes from nowhere. He was never part of the Westminster-policy-media-think-tank establishment or Oxbridge networks. He was an undergraduate at Kent University but suffered acutely from obsessive compulsive disorder and was encouraged by his mother to take a year out from his studies. He published a remarkable Substack post about exposure therapy and the long, slow, painful process of recovery. When I mentioned that I'd read and admired the piece he seemed surprised and moved. 'You are the first person to ask me about that,' he said. 'It was extremely bad. I was extremely thin at the time and not very well. When I came back to uni the next year, I wrote essays in the way I wanted, and didn't have any fear or worry. I'd literally battled things when I thought I was going to die, when I thought people I loved were going to die. I wanted to follow what I thought was true and not be held back. It was very freeing. And now I really don't like constraints because I spent years being truly constrained in a very bad way. It still crops up from time to time – such as when I was having the death threats – but nowhere near in the same way.' During our hour-long conversation, Newport repeatedly spoons sugar into several cups of tea and uses laughter as a form of nervous punctuation, especially when recounting periods of stress or trauma. Is he part of the ecosystem of the new online radical right, I asked. He replied by pointing out that his parents were Labour voters and his grandparents Brexiteers: 'Life's complicated!' Above all, he wants to challenge consensus and groupthink, and use data to sharpen public understanding of system failure. Newport aligns with Cummings – but also with Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer's chief of staff – in his critique of state failure. 'Look at the justice system, look at policing, look at the courts, look at the prisons – there are a bunch of failures everywhere you look. Every part of the system is completely broken.' Newport cites the backlog in the courts, 'with people waiting three to four years for criminal trials', as an example of system failure. 'There was one day last November when a third of crown courts were shut! My mum said to me: 'Why can't the government just make the courts open?' That would make sense, but it's not happening. People are shocked when they hear the courts can choose to shut… If you try to nail down who is responsible, everyone can point to everyone else, and so no one is responsible.' McSweeney has said that many people in the country have had 'the hope beaten out of them': they no longer believe change for the better is even possible. 'It's about more than system failure,' Newport said. 'It's people failure as well. People are not brave enough, they're too constrained. They're not able to look at the world and ask: 'How do you fix this thing?' Instead, they think: 'How can I fix this thing in a way that my dinner parties would agree?' The whole Bully campaign was a lesson in: how do I get it to be high-status to talk about this issue?' If he is sceptical about the constraints of Westminster politics and what he describes as 'the failure of government to act on what people want', he believes in the potential of coordinated action. He mentions how the woke and environmental movements have influenced public policy. 'My view is if you build coordinated groups, you can change the vibe and suddenly it becomes high-status to talk about it at dinner parties.' You must take people's frustration and anger in a constructive direction because the alternative is dangerous, Lawrence Newport said. For now, he will continue his campaigns. 'In the end, I want to live in a country where things work, and my son is going to have a better life.' [See also: Why China is winning] Related
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Yahoo
Marshall County Sheriff's Office names person of interest in search for missing, possibly endangered teen
MARSHALL COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — The Marshall County Sheriff's Office said a teen missing since April 19 could be in danger, and a person of interest has been named. The sheriff's office said Dayetssi Carrasquillo Pizarro, 13, was last seen near the 6900 block of Martling Road in Albertville with her dog on April 19. MCSO said Pizarro is a Hispanic girl with black hair and brown eyes and her dog is a chocolate colored 'American Bully' dog. The sheriff's office said her last known clothing description is unknown. The person of interest has been identified as 32-year-old Raul Alexis Arellano Romero. The sheriff's office said he is a Hispanic male with brown hair and brown eyes, reportedly 5'8″ and 135 lbs. The sheriff's office said he has ties to Huntsville and his vehicle description is unknown at this time. If you have any information on the whereabouts of the victim, contact the Marshall County Sheriff's Office at (256) 582-2034 or call 911. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
