A Monday morning call to SFPD regarding, in the words of the Taraval Station newsletter, “a man with a gun making threats” led to the discovery of a disturbing story of animal cruelty, allegedly at the hands of a man said to be fostering a puppy for a local rescue agency.

Three officers were called to an apartment building on the 100 block of Kenwood at 3:30 Monday morning, where they were told by a resident of the building that their neighbors’ dog “had been crying as if in pain throughout the night.” She told the officers that she’d tried talking to the man they believed was the dog’s guardian, a 28-year-old man named Jong Soo Kim, who allegedly told her that “he had a gun and would use it.”

The officers were let into the apartment by Kim’s roommate, and discovered that Kim had written on his doorway “Leave me alone. P.S. I have a gun for self defense and I am insane.” The officers were able to safely talk Kim out of his room and detain him, seizing the man’s Ruger 45.

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Royalty is Royalty:)
What can we say: he is a perfect Royal Poodle!

BY MARIA FUGATE

A dog-loving Virginia family got an unexpectedly happy if somewhat perplexing ending to their missing-hound mystery last month, thanks to a microchip.

Two weeks before Christmas, Deacon, an 85-pound German shepherd, went missing from the home he shared with the Holt family in rural Stuart, Va.

For the first couple of days, Pamela; her husband, Keith; and their daughter, Brooklyn, 3, weren’t really worried because they figured their nearly 2-year-old pet was exploring in the fields behind their home.

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Yes, come here and you will have all the hugs and treats you want lovely bunny!

By Sue Paz

The Whittle family from Bournemouth emigrated from Dorset to India in 1997, to set up a tiger sanctuary.
Geoff Whittle, his wife Cherrie, and sons, Olly and Jamie, had fallen on hard times.
During the recession, their business was experiencing a “trough”, and their property was in negative equity.
They decided to reassess their lives and opted for an adventure that suited their “love of the outdoors”, and enabled them to “give something back”.
Geoff said: “Jamie was nine and Olly was 11 at the time.
“Jamie was quite happy to stay with me and Cherrie and do what we thought was best – not that we really knew what that was – but, Olly was miffed by whole idea.
“He had just got a paper round and was thinking about girlfriends. His initial reaction was ‘what have I done wrong?’

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