Posts Tagged ‘Dogs’
Dogs Go Diving at City Pool
After spending “the dog days” of summer testing the water quality at D.C. swimming pools, I have decidedly mixed feelings about this footage of neighborhood mascots taking the final dip of the season. Our tests found more than a third of the pools visited were incubating harmful bacteria just like giant Petri dishes.
There’s a definite gross-out factor in letting the doggies in for a dip. Though I’m not quite sure who should be more grossed out - the pooches or the people - particularly given the footage of a happy-go-lucky mutt named Taxi Dog lapping up the pool water. Decide for yourself: We’ve got photos and video courtesy of Wayan Vota and the Petworth Listserv. Thanks Wayan!
Dogfight in Upper Northwest
A controversy has been unleashed over, um, unleashed dogs.
It all started with a query about the Metropolitan Police Department's Second District arrest log, which certain elements in our fine city pour over, making sure no mugging, burglary or car theft goes unexamined. With all of those crimes unfolding daily, the questioner expressed a certain incredulity that police would bother locking up dog walkers. The said crime took place Jun. 8 on Idaho Avenue, N.W.
How To Figure Out If You Have Bed Bugs: Get This Dog To Come Over
In a posh hotel in downtown D.C., Dixie, a beagle mix, is sniffing out bed bugs. She can find them in walls, under carpets, and mixed up with cockroaches inside a spinning training device. Mattresses, the most common hiding place for these seed-size suckers of human blood, pose little challenge.
“She only gets fed if she finds a bed bug,” says her trainer and handler, Blaine Lessard, as he reaches into his belted pouch for a piece of kibble. Read More "How To Figure Out If You Have Bed Bugs: Get This Dog To Come Over" »
Our Morning Roundup: Front Pooch Edition
Happy Wednesday, D.C.! You might remember City Paper's kind-of-a-big-deal Inauguration Photo Contest, whereby we elicited "dope" photographs from readers across the land. Two weeks later, we announced the winners. Recently, we even decided to send the winners their super-special swag, inspiring fourth-placer Aziz Y. to photograph his pooch in our delightful knit cap (above right). I think Beaujon's was more of a statement, natch (above left)—but hats off to Aziz and his BFF, regardless.
Newsier stuff below the jump.
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Dogwalker Avoids the Fuzz at Legal Dog Park
Meet Petey, a rottweiler/basset hound mix, and Ruby, a goldendoodle. They are part of the pack veteran dogwalker Johan Amaya has brought for an average, mid-afternoon run at Walter Pierce Dog Park. Walter Pierce is one of the few official such parks in D.C. There are lots of unofficial ones, of course: Rock Creek Park, Glover Park, Marie Reed's kickball field, and countless more green spaces dotted with poop. But "the heat," as Amaya refers to National Park Police and other cops, is cracking down on unleashed dogs. And, he adds, professional dogwalkers are their No. 1 targets.
Inauguration Excess, Doggy Style
One of the available menus at Loews hotels includes sundried tomato fettucini, salmon, blue corn, and eggs made to order. And just as you suspected, those are the room-service choices for dogs. The Presidential Pooch Package is part of Loews' celebration of, wait for it, the indoguration. Starting at $169 a night (depending on the package and the hotel), the pooch package includes the "Stars and Stripes" room service for dogs and a patriotic-themed bandana for the dogs to take home as a keepsake. (Notice the model above.) It does not include someone else following your dog around to pick up his undigested blue corn.
