Blaring music drowned out the barking, but there was no masking the neglect inside the sweltering Riverside County garage. “Might be a puppy mill.” Several years before Lemon died, complaints from buyers with sick dogs led investigators with the L.A. County district attorney’s office to serve a search warrant at Matthews’ Norco home. The website for Bay Area Corgis in …
Sandy, a mutt who is part Australian cattle dog, part collie, part American cocker spaniel and part Australian shepherd, participated in the study about dog breeds and behavior. The concept of the modern dog breed was invented only about 160 years ago, what the authors call “a blink in evolutionary history.” Only a few genetic differences are responsible for the …
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Matteo Garrone’s “Dogman,” a potent, affecting crime fable set in a seaside Italian town, signals a lot in its great opening scene. “Dogman” is, like a lot of memorable crime stories, more about the way people live than how they suffer or inflict suffering, and in detailing the repercussions of Marcello’s friendship with Simone, the viewer teeters between exasperation at …