12:33pm

Oprah Takes on Puppy Mills

In the news business, we often sit back and watch the course of events unfold and consider through our reporting what implications it might have. It’s never a public declaration of opinion to sway the end results, or at least it shouldn’t, but the prospect of what today could mean has me sitting in the stands cheering raucously rather than sitting aloofly in the press box. This afternoon, Oprah Winfrey will air a show exposing the ghastly conditions countless dogs across this … read more

12:18pm

Teens Target Zoo Animals with Pellet Guns

Holy smokes! Did this story start a wildfire of discussions! As of this evening, after just 6 days of being posted, this story blasted to more than 1600 comments! (Incidentally, surpassing by 1000 comments the previous week's No. 1 story by comments of "Marine Throws Puppy Down Iraq Hillside") While I was working on this story, I was wondering the very same questions many Zootoo users asked, such as: Where are the kids' parents? Why do they have pellet guns? Where's thei… read more

9:04pm

Lagodi's Story: A Case of Wrongful Death

This story was taken straight from the pages of an ancient Greek tragedy. It was a case of a family who did everything possible to keep the what-ifs from happening, and yet it all still happened, despite their efforts. It highlights the fact that sometimes in life, despite what we do and no matter how right we are, thing don't always turn out in our favor. This seems to defy our natural born, and childhood-reared logic -- that if you are in the right, tell the truth, and go above… read more

8:31pm

Got an Interview with Marine Corps Base Hawaii

For most of us here at Pet Pulse it has been a long week. But for me, today ended on a high of landing a fantastic interview with 1st Lt. Binford Strickland based in Hawaii. So tomorrow I will be working feverishly on bringing all Zootoo users, and our first-time visitors some insight and greater context to this ongoing story and its subsequent investigation. As always, your feedback, suggestions and comments are much appreciated. Stay tuned for more! read more

8:59pm

Record Numbers Respond to Marine Throwing a Puppy

Pet Pulse's coverage of the Marine allegedly throwing a puppy has stirred a Zootoo.com record number of comments in such a short amount of time. Like I had mentioned in yesterday's entry, this is a powder keg of a story that has so many angles to it. Some of you have jumped right in and voiced your own questions, as well as conjecturing on the contributing factors to this incident and the topic in general. For that I am flattered. I once heard a veteran journalist say that there … read more