Tonik, a canine-human hybrid, is available for adoption in Mishawaka, Indiana. He is a Poodle/Shih Tzu/human mix. (via Nothing To Do With Arbroath)]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/02/06/human-faced-dog-up-for-adoptio.html/feed 19 http://boingboing.net/2013/01/11/labradoodle-confused-for-lion.html http://boingboing.net/2013/01/11/labradoodle-confused-for-lion.html#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:49:26 +0000 David Pescovitz http://boingboing.net/?p=205221

This Labradoodle named Charles lives in Norfolk, Virginia where he's frequently mistaken for a lion on the loose. Apparently, 911 dispatchers received three separate 911 calls this week reporting the "lion."

“I just saw an animal that looked like a small lion.” It had “the mange and everything,” a man said. He had seen it on Delaware Avenue near Llewellyn Avenue.

“I don’t know if it got away from the zoo, or what,” he said

"murlin, buttercup," shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool by beckitten. Says the photographer, "My mother is documenting her pup at murlin.net if you're interested in more photos and videos of murlin."]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/04/07/puppyday.html/feed 4 http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/los-galgos-guapos-the-hands.html http://boingboing.net/2012/03/08/los-galgos-guapos-the-hands.html#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:56:17 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=147878

Photojournalist (and author) Erin Siegal has a wonderful photo-essay up on the The Reuters Photographers Blog about "Fast Friends," a group that adopts/rescues "retiring" greyhound dogs that have been used in racing in Tijuana, Mexico. On Erin's personal blog, there are more photos that didn't fit in. What beautiful creatures.

Sergei Barkmaninoff. (thanks, Joe Sabia)]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/03/05/video-dog-plays-piano-sings.html/feed 24 http://boingboing.net/2012/01/30/dog-delivers-receipts-to-custo.html http://boingboing.net/2012/01/30/dog-delivers-receipts-to-custo.html#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:20:50 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=141375

[Video Link] (thanks, Joe Sabia!)]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/01/30/dog-delivers-receipts-to-custo.html/feed 17 http://boingboing.net/2011/11/11/collie.html http://boingboing.net/2011/11/11/collie.html#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:40:52 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=128745

PBS NewsHour's Jenny Marder wrote a really interesting feature about the abandoned pets inside the Fukushima evacuation zone in Japan. I encountered some of them when I traveled to the area with Safecast and PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien (our resulting PBS NewsHour report video is here).

Jenny digs into what happened with the volunteer effort to rescue and adopt the abandoned pets, and talks to scientists about the effect of fallout on animals (including intergenerational and genetic changes, like what the world saw within bird and wild animal populations after Chernobyl). Snip:

At the tail end of Miles O'Brien's latest NewsHour report on radiation in Japan, a golden dog with a thick red collar trots into the street of the abandoned town, Katsurao, and weaves along the center divider.

Miles asks, off camera: "Do we have anything to feed him?"

The piece, which airs tonight, reports on the group Safecast, which has measured, mapped and crowdsourced data on radiation levels in locations throughout Japan, particularly in the hot spots near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The dog was one of several scrawny, undernourished dogs and cats they encountered, most likely abandoned by their owners during rapid evacuation.

Read more: What's the Fallout for Dogs Near Fukushima? (The Rundown News Blog | PBS NewsHour)

(Photos in this post by Sean Bonner: all iPhone snapshots of abandoned pets we encountered in the evacuation zone, shot during our drive from Tokyo to Fukushima in August, 2011)