By: Mike Madriaga On February 3, a neighbor’s camera caught Brody wandering away from his San Lorenzo, Northern California home. The next day and 500-plus miles south, Brody mysteriously crossed into Tijuana. Brody is a four-year-old French bulldog, the same breed as Lady Gaga’s two pets, the ones that were recently “dognapped.” For two weeks, […]
By Mike Madriaga On July 4, E.L. and his Lakeside neighbors and their horses were not amused by fireworks set off close by. “Idiots on Vista Camino shooting skyrockets towards horses …. anybody else sick of this shit?” E.L. asked his neighbors online; many agreed with his rant and some took it even further. “[The […]
By Mike Madriaga On June 20, at around 3:15 pm, Shirley saw white feathers scattered by the mailbox outside of her Valley Center farm. “Oh no!” she said herself, “one of my peacocks has been hit.” She then found the bird lying in the middle of Cool Valley Road by Cole Grade Road, southwest of […]
“Lily was last seen being taken from our yard on Thursday [February 15] by a caucasian male, medium build, [in his] late 20s to early 30s,” Ivan Kanzaki said. “He then led [our Siberian husky] into Emory Street and then towards Palm Avenue.” Kanzaki is a 36-year-old Navy reservist from Imperial Beach. He and his […]
On November 29, the Mexicali side of the Zona Centro border crossing was blocked by protesters demanding the jail release of Sunshine Antonio Rodríguez Peña, the organizer of the fishing communes in San Felipe. Rodríguez was stopped by Mexican federal agents on November 25 when he was driving with his family from Mexicali to San […]
“We started hearing barking from the neighbor’s dog and then right after that we heard one of their dogs start yelping frantically,” said Angie Lira, “I [then] saw three coyotes; two were walking towards Gables Street and the third one went up Flintridge Drive towards Bolivar Street.” Lira is a stay-at-home mom from Paradise Hills […]
“[Regarding] the neighbor who threw dog poop on another neighbor’s windshield for not cleaning up after their dog,” said Melissa Popovich, “I can understand why a person would get frustrated enough about it.” Popovich, 43, from Normal Heights, was referring to two neighbors that recently had a “sticky-situation.” On May 11, a dog-walker from Cherokee […]
“Being that it’s springtime in San Diego, it didn’t take long to figure out that it’s [cat] mating season,” said Anne Joseph, “thus the howling and the roaming behaviors.” Joseph, a yoga personal trainer, recently noticed the increase of the stray and abandoned cats in her Castle neighborhood. Last week she took the initiative, and […]
“So her macho boyfriend took it upon himself to run out, get a gun of some kind,” said Kay Marsik, “and then he bragged to me that he had killed five of them [crows].” Since that incident, Marsik, 61, from North Park, has been taking care of the remaining crows in her area (the ones […]