Friday, September 18, 2009

Dog Determines Where Each Suspect Sat in Van on Night of Drive-By Murder

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A 2002 California case shows how important dogs have become in the fight against violent gangs in Los Angeles. Jose Sandoval and other membe...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Is There Any Beer in the Cellar? Dog Tracking in Iowa in 1904

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Some investigations are handled so poorly that it might be laughable were it not that people’s lives are damaged. A suit in Iowa for wrongf...
Sunday, August 30, 2009

1898 Bloodhound Decision Still Raises Relevant Issues

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In the decade before 1900, tracking dogs began to be used to find suspects. The courts of the time struggled with the issues of how and whe...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Tracking Dog Case from 1893

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On the night of the killing of Rose Stanback in Alabama in 1893, a man’s tracks were found near her house. Neighbors arrived, one with a tr...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Owning Both a Dog and a Cat: Start Them Young

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We have been expecting them to get along for perhaps thousands of years. An Italian woodcut from 1549 shows two dogs and a cat waiting for ...
Monday, August 10, 2009

Behavioral Repertoire Differences in Breeds Deserves Further Study

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Some dogs still look much like wolves, and some dog populations have continued to interbreed with wolves. This raises the possibility that ...
Monday, August 3, 2009

Claiming Service Animal Status After a Condo Board Refuses to Change a No-Pets Policy Requires Thinking Strategically

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Soon after I began doing research on service and support dog access law I realized that by far the largest category of legal decisions are d...
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