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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Great Dane rescue founder has a big heart
PLEASANT HILL, Mo. — Nicole Carter volunteers with Daisy's Dane Sanctuary, a Great Dane rescue based in Pleasant Hill, Missouri. 'Chrissy Scott started the nonprofit after her own Great Dane died,' said Carter. 'And currently, Chrissy has her garage transformed as home base, but Scott is looking to expand.' Church youth director inspires young people The sanctuary went viral last year when Chrissy was called in to rescue 10 Great Danes who lived in horrific conditions in Miami County. Now she's getting calls from all over the U.S. As a result of her service to the community, FOX4 is giving Chrissy a Pay it Forward $400 gift card. To nominate someone unrelated to you, . Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Daily Record
23-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Record
Top five calmest dog breeds for those looking for a peaceful pet including gentle giant
These pups are the least likely to bark and cause general chaos. Choosing which type of dog you want is a huge decision, with many elements to consider. And which breed you choose can have a huge effect on your pup's characteristics. Will they shed a lot? Or be likely to smell? Or be more likely to bark all the time? Different breeds of dog can have different personalities, so it's crucial to do your research to find the type of dog most suited to you and your needs. If you're after a more peaceful pet experience, you may be interested in a breed of pup renowned for their calm energy. The experts at Animigo have rounded up a list of the top five calmest dog breeds that aren't likely to be a total stress to own. Here's their list of the most chilled out canines for a calm and peaceful household. Top five calmest dog breeds 1. Pug Animigo says on their website: "A tiny ball of cuteness, pugs are great when it comes to lazy dog breeds. As a result of their squashed face, they're prone to breathing problems, so only require minimal exercise, making them ideal inside dogs. "In addition to this, being on average only around 20 pounds, they are great for sitting on your lap and chilling out on the sofa, so when looking for lazy dogs to accompany your laid-back lifestyle, look no further than a pug!" But while they may be quiet, pugs are also known for their flatulence, so while your home may be calm, it may also be stinky. 2. Great Dane The animal experts explain that despite their size, these pooches are gentle giants at heart. "Great Danes are pretty chilled and aren't likely to get over excited when you walk in the door or anxious when you leave the house", the animal pros said. "They're generally serene and quiet, making them one of the best calm dog breeds for those looking for a big dog!" 3. Basset Hound Basset Hounds are stereotyped to be calm and content, and as long as they are able to exercise regularly, they're typically lazy around the house. Older pet parents who don't want to be run off their feet will benefit from this dog's chilled-out attitude, as they aren't likely to cause chaos. 4. Shih Tzu Animago said: "Although they have a bit of a reputation as a 'yappy' breed, with proper training and care they can be a good example when it comes to calm dogs. Thanks to their tiny size, they don't require too much time exercising outdoors, making them perfect indoor companions." They still require plenty of playing and attention, and also need regularly groomed, but a Shih Tzu is a great option for those looking for a small dog. 5. Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Also on our list of the most affordable pooches, Cavalier King Charles Spaniels can be easily trained, making them perfect when looking for calm dogs. Unlike many small dogs, a Cavalier isn't very loud, so they are a great quiet dog breed, and their small size means they don't require loads of exercise, and so are happy to lounge around the house. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'.
Straits Times
17-05-2025
- Straits Times
New Jersey couple imprisoned girl for 7 years and kept her in dog cage, police say
Branndon Mosely, 41, and Brenda Spencer, 38, were charged with assault, criminal restraint and kidnapping. PHOTOS: OFFICE OF THE CAMDEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR New Jersey couple imprisoned girl for 7 years and kept her in dog cage, police say TRENTON, New Jersey – One evening last week, a barefoot teenage girl with a shaved head burst into her next-door neighbor's home in Blackwood, New Jersey, sat down on the couch and began to spill out a harrowing story. She said her stepfather and mother had imprisoned her at their home for the past seven years, ever since they pulled her out of elementary school with the excuse that she would be home-schooled. She said they locked her in a dog crate for an entire year and, at one point, had chained her up in a bathroom. She said her stepfather had sexually abused her. This week, following a police investigation, prosecutors in Camden County, in South Jersey just outside Philadelphia, announced several charges against her mother, Brenda Spencer, 38; and stepfather, Branndon Mosely, 41. They included assault, criminal restraint, kidnapping and weapons offences; Mosely also faces numerous counts of sexual assault. 'The investigation has corroborated the heinous acts endured by the victim, and we will hold those responsible accountable,' Lieutenant Andy McNeil, a spokesperson for the Camden County Prosecutor's Office, said in an interview. The authorities did not identify the 18-year-old teenager. Mosely is a rail conductor for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, the transit system that serves the Philadelphia region, and Spencer is a dog handler who specialises in Great Danes, the authorities said. They are being held in jail while they await a detention hearing scheduled for next week. Lawyers for the couple declined to comment. 'I wish I had known' Days after the distressed teenage girl barreled into the home where he was staying, Mr Michael Lacey, a 36-year-old pool cleaner, said he kept breaking down in tears over the brutality she had described. She recounted to Mr Lacey how an alarm system was rigged so she could not escape. How her mother shaved her head as punishment and how she was forced to relieve herself in a bucket. And she explained to Mr Lacey that it all happened behind closed doors, just 20 yards away from the house he was staying in, which belonged to his mother. 'After I found out that everything she was telling me was true, I broke down,' Mr Lacey said in an interview. 'I wish I had known. I wish I had known.' The region has recently been shaken by an eerily similar episode in which a 32-year-old Connecticut man escaped from what he said was 20 years of imprisonment by his late father and stepmother. He lit a fire in his room, forcing firefighters to rescue him from his family's burning home, the authorities have said. His stepmother faces multiple charges relating to his confinement. The scene in Blackwood, where the teenager is believed to have been held, is 'one of the most despicable cases we've run across', Chief David Harkins of the Gloucester Township Police Department said at a news conference on May 14. Officials also took aim at home-schooling, an increasingly popular and barely regulated alternative to traditional schooling. Taking the girl out of school 'helped hide the heinous, yearslong torture', Ms Grace C. MacAulay, the Camden County prosecutor, said. When police entered the home, they found squalid conditions, Ms MacAulay said, as well as a room rigged with an alarm system, the bucket the girl said she had been forced to use and the chains she said had bound her. Mosely and Spencer took the teenager's 13-year-old sister out of school after second grade in an effort to conceal her sibling's abuse, according to a criminal complaint. 'They were afraid she would tell someone that the victim was living in a dog crate,' the document reads. Only for barking dogs The charges against the couple relate only to the older sister; officials said an investigation was continuing into whether there were other victims. According to their Facebook accounts, Mosely and Spencer have three other children together: a 3-year-old boy and twin 5-year-old girls. Officials said that only the two teenage sisters were found in the home and were unable to provide information about any other children. A large number of animals were also removed from the home, including four Great Danes, three other dogs, a lizard, snakes, several birds, two hamsters and 29 chinchillas, according to Chief Harkins. Spencer's social media is filled with love notes to Mosely, interspersed with images of her in sundresses posing with Great Danes at dog competitions. The family appears to have lived at the house on Ridge Avenue since 2017, according to property records. Since then, the only police calls to the home have been for barking dogs in the yard. But whenever police arrived, Chief Harkins said, the couple quickly put the dogs inside. No responding officers ever entered the house. NYTIMES Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Newsweek
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Woman Takes Photo of Dog During Every Visit—Makes Heartbreaking Realization
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. A woman has shared the heartbreaking moment she realized her dog is getting old—and received a wave of support from pet owners who have been through the same thing. Sophie Rindfleish, 29, is the proud owner of Jack Russell Terrier Harvard, or Harvey for short, as she explained to Newsweek: "He's almost nine and I got him for my 21st birthday." Harvey is as loyal as ever, and is always there to collect her from the airport with her parents when Rindfleish, who now lives in Brisbane, visits her hometown of Melbourne. "Whenever I come home to visit he comes along in the car to pick me up from the airport, and I always take a photo of him when I'm putting my suitcase in the [trunk]," Rindfleish explained. And it was one of these photos that led Rindfleish and her loyal dog to go viral, as she compared the most recent snap to one of her oldest photos of Harvey collecting her from the airport. Sophie Rindfleish's dog, Harvey, who has been with her for almost nine years. Sophie Rindfleish's dog, Harvey, who has been with her for almost nine years. TikTok @healthybodhealthymind In a video shared to her TikTok account @healthybodhealthymind on April 18, Rindfleish wrote: "Nothing prepares you for the sudden realization that your dog is getting old." A first photo, taken five or six years ago according to Rindfleish, shows a young Harvey standing on his hind legs and grinning at the camera from the back of the car, looking excited to see her. And on the next slide is the most recent photo of Harvey greeting Rindfleish at the airport, now with gray flecks around his eyes and muzzle and looking a bit more tired—but just as excited to be reunited with his owner. Dogs age at different rates, with large breeds such as Great Danes considered senior dogs at around six years old, but smaller breeds like the Chihuahua are not considered old until around 10. Along with graying fur around the face, aging in dogs can be seen in various physical symptoms, including cloudy eyes, slowing down, gaining weakness in their back legs and a change in their weight, according to the American Kennel Club (AKC). Read more Can dogs really "smell that you love them?" Can dogs really "smell that you love them?" TikTok users resonated hugely with the video, awarding it close to 300,000 views and 60,000 likes, as one commenter wrote: "Someone once told me they get sugar face because we kissed the color away." Another agreed "he looks like the happiest boy. He's gotten older with beautiful memories, cuddles and kisses along the way." "My dog is turning eight this year and nothing could have prepared me [for] him starting to show white hair around his eyes," another said, as another pleaded: "Don't I'm going to cry." One user admitted "this is my worst nightmare," with Rindfleish replying: "If I think about it too much I cry." She told Newsweek that Harvey is "still very spritely despite looking so gray—he loves playing fetch." As for the massive response to her video, Rindfleish said that, to her, it makes sense. As she put it: "I am someone who cries watching dog videos on the internet so I totally resonate with a lot of the comments people have left on the video." Do you have funny and adorable videos or pictures of your pet you want to share? Send them to life@ with some details about your best friend and they could appear in our Pet of the Week lineup.
New York Post
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Sexy influencer brings huge dog as a service animal on flight — here's how passengers reacted
Frequent flyers of the friendly skies are not feeling this fox and her huge hound. Curses and epithets are being hurled at a social media smoke-show who hauled her humongous Great Dane, an alleged service animal, onto an airplane. 4 Pietra Luccas, a fashion influencer from San Francisco, is currently in the eye of the internet's ire for bringing her tremendously large dog onto an airplane as her service animal. Instagram/greatcharliedane Advertisement 'I love dogs but this is ridiculous,' barked a vexed viewer beneath Instagram influencer Piêtra Luccas' viral vid, which has garnered nearly 46 million clicks. The clip kicks off with her approaching the cabin door to the United Airlines flight and seemingly startling the flight attendants, with one greeting her, 'Well, hello! I've been hearing about this guy.' Luccas pauses to respond that she wanted to note that she's 'seated around people' and she wanted to 'make sure they are OK' with the situation. Advertisement 'The supervisor talked to everyone and explained everything, so …' the crew member replied, to which the person filming behind Luccas responded, 'It's going to be fine' before they entered the plane as seated — and smiling — passengers gawked. However, the interaction set off a tidal wave of online tsk-tsking. 'How f'ing rude can you be to burden everyone else with your selfishness,' an equally huffy commenter howled about what someone else labeled 'attention-seeking behavior.' 'Who brings a horse on an airplane?' another spat, referencing the dog's gargantuan build. Advertisement But they're not just picking on the pinup's supersized pup. 4 Great Danes like the one pictured here are described as gentle and elegant dogs weighing up to 175 pounds. svetograph – A male Great Dane can reach up to 32 inches at the shoulder and weigh a massive 175 pounds, according to the American Kennel Club. The experts note, however, that despite the breed's jumbo size, Great Danes are 'elegant, and even regal in their gait and disposition.' Advertisement Still, it seems that persnickety travelers don't want to see the gentle giants at their airport gates. 4 Commenters wondered how people who are afraid of dogs or allergic to their dander survived the flight with Luccas' Great Dane. Aliaksandr Marko – A separate Great Dane received a ruff welcome upon boarding a flight in December. Peeved passengers and flight attendants rolled their eyes at the sight of the hulking animal as he sniffed around for his assigned seat. Gabriel Bogner, a 27-year-old content creator, recently caught flak, too, for carting his 140-pound Great Dane, Darwin, onto an Airbus from Los Angeles to New York City. The four-legged hulk, who required multiple seats for comfort during the cross-country trip, acts as a service animal to Bogner, who lives with Crohn's disease. 4 Great Danes on planes can find themselves on the business end of social media's backlash. dmussman – But when it comes to Luccas' helper pooch, Charlie, skeptics seem to doubt that the dog's really there to help her out. 'She knows damn well that's not a service dog,' a cyber cynic spat. Advertisement 'I can't stand that!!! She doesn't even need it, not a service dog,' another scoffed. 'She just wants the attention!!!' 'The absolute narcissism of the day. People exploiting [accommodations made] for the truly disabled, claiming 'hidden disabilities' like stress, anxiety and claustrophobia to justify imposing on EVERYONE else in the world to bring their pets with them everywhere pets are not supposed to be,' ranted an outraged hater. Advertisement 'This woman's Instagram makes it absolutely clear she is a healthy, able-bodied person and the dog is her pet,' the incensed commenter continued. 'Airlines need to do better. People need to demand better. 'What a bad person.'
