Dog

An investigation is underway after an LAPD officer shot a pit bull with a bean bag in the head in Winnetka.

The Los Angeles Police Department Saturday released video from the body cameras worn by officers on a vicious dog call in Winnetka that resulted in a pit bull being shot in the head with a bean bag round.

The search is on for a 100-pound dog named Charlie-Murphy after the pooch was stolen inside a car in Echo Park, police said Sunday.

Neighbors heard barking from a manhole last Friday. By Saturday, crews began their rescue efforts.

When you adopt a shelter dog, you have no idea what kind of distinguished career it might go on to pursue.

Early Thursday morning, a fire burned down a home on N Paseo Miramar in the Pacific Palisades. Now, the family who owned the house is looking for their beloved dog Chloe, who went missing the night of the blaze.

It didn’t take long for Chloe the Dog to find her forever home. NBC 7’s Joe Little documents her journey after getting new prosthetic legs.

Last year, when bacteria from a red tide lit California’s coastline electric blue, photographer Patrick Coyne began chasing the bioluminescence down the coast. This year when it popped up again, he filmed his friend’s dog Balto playing in the waves.

Have you ever heard of a Chihuahua described as a “haunted Victorian child”? What about a “Chucky doll in a dog’s body”? Well, now you have! A tweet about a “demonic Chihuahua” named Prancer who is up for adoption has gone viral on Twitter due to the brutally honest description written by his foster owner of what potential adopters could expect...

The dog ice cream and treat shop began serving canine customers this weekend.

A stray dog who took shelter under a van to give birth to her puppies during a rainy San Diego day has been rescued by the San Diego Humane Society (SDHS) as they seek the pooch’s owner.

A dog named Clover is being hailed by Canadian media as a hero for helping her human, Haley Moore, survive a seizure that struck her suddenly during a walk.

A paws-itively devoted dog has spent days waiting outside a hospital in northern Turkey where her sick owner was receiving treatment

“It’s a really bad feeling when you know you can’t really do anything for your dog,” sighed Dani Hernandez. The 13-year-old sat on a bench with her beloved Benji, a seven-year-old scruffy dog and Dani’s best friend. “Benji is a real cheerful, happy-going dog. She has a really fun personality,” smiled the 8th grader. The two met seven years...

Simone Giertz, originally of Sweden and now living in L.A., built a selfie booth for her three-legged rescue dog, Scraps.

Pet insurance company Trupanion released a list of its top 10 dog names for 2020 based on its database of more than 500,000 insured pets. Some popular and even classic names continued to dominate the list this year, but some new contenders were also featured.

A Glendale grandmother is grateful for her dog and a city sanitation worker who happened to be at the right place at the right time. Hetty Chang reports for NBC LA at 11 p.m. Aug. 21, 2020.

A dog who was lost during the Apple Fire was returned to his owners in Riverside County.

Orange County firegfighters found Buck, a Queensland Heeler mix, who was lost during the Apple Fire in Riverside County. Buck was taken care of and safely returned to his owner.

An 11-year-old dog had spent his whole life on a chain, eating the family’s leftovers. This woman saw him and started visiting him three times a day. He was always so excited to see her — and six months in, his family agreed she could take him. Now he’s found a forever family!