While it is very easy to laugh at this situation, Alice Burton, chief of animal control in Arlington, tells DCist that reports of this nature happen pretty often.
It’s been a while since we’ve checked in with the Post’s Animal Watch desk, but this week’s list in the District weekly is filled with stuff that is more comical than the normally depressing examples of animal neglect. We perhaps shouldn’t be laughing, but we find the mixture of detailed and semi-vague information from the reports to make for good reading. Oh the twisted irony in this one on Capitol Hill: Humane Society officers removed…
Yesterday’s Animal Watch in the Post had an interesting item about an orange corn snake being found in a hallway at an apartment building in the 4200 block of Cathedral Avenue. If we’re guessing correctly, we think that the apartment building in question is The Towers, that cocoon-like building in Wesley Heights that is stuck in an era circa 1966. If you don’t know much about this magical place, we encourage you to read part…
Sad News at the Zoo. No, we don’t have any word about the status of possible panda babies at the National Zoo, but you can check for pregnancy watch updates here. Sadly, we must turn to camels. The Post reports that the zoo’s only camel died. It was an 18-year-old Bactrian camel, an endangered animal native to northwestern China and Mongolia that typically lives 35-50 years. Just to be clear, we don’t know if…
If Inaugural security barriers got in the way of picking up last week’s City Paper, be sure to find a copy and read Sarah Godfrey’s cover story, “Grass ‘N’ Go,” an interesting look at the economics of District gas stations and the need to sell drug paraphernalia and related goods. From the City Paper’s cover story (which will probably go into the CP’s paid archives later in the week): If you’re looking to get high…
A woman on 24th Street NE called animal control officers to her residence to remove a squirrel she had trapped under her bed covers. According to the Post’s Animal Watch, she trapped the creature in her bed covers by placing a flower pot over it and weighing it down with some books. When animal control arrived to remove the squirrel, it was discovered that the mammal was actually a balled-up pair of pantyhose. (For some…
An alert DCist reader informs us that the Post’s Animal Watch is online after we noted that it was not available. You can find this week’s here, through the Extras section. But we still want to note that on washingtonpost.com, easy links to Animal Report from the “Regular Features” section come up with nothing. And the report on health code violations that appears in the print edition of the District Weekly is not posted online,…
Kitty Kelley loves Georgetown and The Georgetowner loves Kitty Kelley, so much so that they made her life the cover story of this week’s issue. While the article spends a great deal of time exploring Kelley’s sometimes-scandalous book career, it deals a little bit with how she lives her life in Georgetown. Her secluded garden lifestyle (for those who saw the cover of the NY Times’ House and Home section last week, you were either…
This week’s Animal Watch is filled with many reports of neglected dogs, or dogs just getting into trouble. A Presa Canario bit his owner at a park on Branch Avenue SE … a dog owner was charged with cruelty to animals when a necropsy report revealed that a dog found dead chained to a pole on Ascot Place NE died of heat stroke … three pit bulls that prevented an Aspen Street NW home owner…
