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In an interview with KPRC, James said a man and a woman came into the store looking at different dogs and landed on a $10,000 exotic bulldog puppy who was 7-months-old at the time. However, James said the pair took off with the puppy when she went upstairs to grab paperwork for a UPS driver. Surveillance video shows the couple leaving with James running after them. She told KPRC that the puppy had surgery just days prior and was in need of special medication. James explained that the man was driving the vehicle and when he “very aggressively” lurched the...

It's hard to know whether this kitten was trying to escape from its confinement or looking to meet up with his canine friend, but they both ended up together anyway. The JoLinn Pet House, a pet store in Taipei, Taiwan, posted a video on its Facebook page of a kitten clambering its way up the glass in its pen to get to the gap at the top. After getting stuck there for a few seconds the kitten then has to quickly size up what to do next as the puppy in the pen next door suddenly realises he may have...

The City Council moved Wednesday to cut off the pipeline of puppies purchased in Chicago that come from for-profit breeders condemned as puppy mills. With downtown Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) casting the only dissenting vote, aldermen approved a somewhat watered-down anti-cruelty ordinance championed by City Clerk Susana Mendoza. It would limit the retail sale of dogs, cats and rabbits at Chicago's 16 pet stores to those animals that come from shelters and humane adoption centers. ... "As a person who grew up with three dogs, I think it's the right thing to do. And I'm proud of the city and...

Never buy from a Pet Shop. If you buy a puppy from a Pet Store, you have missed the entire point of this site. You don't get to see the parents, you learn nothing about the conditions of the kennels, and you don't get to question the breeders. In short, you are supporting the Puppy Mill industry. PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS! See both parents of the puppy. If the breeders make any excuse for why you can't see both parents, walk away. One of the parents died, ran away, is sick, or is visiting his cousins in Albuquerque…..whatever excuse...

The Bad Guy of the Week is actually a chubby female. The Good Guy is, surprise, a Republican who showed some gonads. Also, time for some serious cute, with a visit to a pet store caught on video. Much more.

At least 25 reptiles died and another 50 to 75 fish are fighting to survive after an overnight fire ripped through a Cambridge pet store that had been spray painted with graffiti that said: "No more exploitation of animals." Fire officials are still trying to determine how the fire started and if it had been intentionally set. The two-alarm blaze tore through Boston Tropical Fish and Reptile store on Monsignor O'Brien Highway shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday night. The dead animals included six geckos, five fire belly toads, four king snakes, three boa constrictors, three arrow frogs, two wood turtles...

The Middleware Company has performed a new comparison of the performance and scalability of J2EE and .NET based on the familiar Pet Store application. This time, the Middleware Company has re-coded the J2EE Petstore and optimized the implementation for performance. In the comparison, a new implementation of the .NET Pet Shop has also been tested. This implementation uses dynamic SQL instead of stored procedures, and like the J2EE equivalent is an object-oriented, logical 3-tier implementation following Microsoft's recommended design pattern for building scalable Web applications. In addition, the new performance and scalability comparison includes new comparative performance data on .NET...

------------------------------------------------------------------------Pet store of 'Rocky' fame loses $32 in robberyYo, police!J&M Tropical Fish, the Kensington pet shop where a dreamer named Rocky met a mousy sales clerk named Adrian and bought food for his turtles Cuff and Link in the 1976 film Rocky, was held up yesterday morning, police said.A man in his late 20s or early 30s walked into J&M, at 2146 N. Front St., shortly after 10 a.m. When owner Joseph Marks asked if he could help the man, he brandished what appeared to be a weapon and demanded money. Marks, 56, gave up $32, and the assailant fled,...