All seven cats seized Wednesday from homeowners who kept the animals in putrid conditions were unhealthy and have been euthanized, but several of the homeowners' puppies will be adoptable Friday, investigators say. Investigators seized 55 goats, 35 dogs and seven cats from the Seffner couple. Six to eight Boston terrier puppies will go up for adoption Friday, Hillsborough County Animal Services spokeswoman Marti Ryan said. Other dogs will be sent to animal rescue groups. ...more

July 31, 2008

A menagerie of 55 goats, 35 dogs and seven cats were seized Wednesday from homeowners who lived in filth and kept the animals in putrid conditions, investigators said. ...more

July 31, 2008

An investigation into a couple selling dogs for hundreds of dollars led to a Seffner home in deplorable conditions and 55 goats, 35 dogs and seven cats living in filth, said Marti Ryan of Hillsborough County Animal Services. ...more

July 30, 2008

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum. ...more

July 27, 2008

A cloudy, damp day couldn't keep Reno and Buckshot out of their local swimming hole. ...more

July 27, 2008

TAMPA - Lightning may have caused a fire Tuesday night that damaged a home on the 9000 block of North 21st Street, Tampa Fire Rescue officials said. ...more

July 15, 2008

TAMPA - A mixed breed dog found by investigators tied to a fence in a yard infested with fleas and ticks has been nursed back to health, county animal services officials said. ...more

July 10, 2008

More than three weeks after being warned by animal services to take care of her dogs, a Tampa woman was arrested last night after police found one of the dogs dead, infested with insects. ...more

June 28, 2008

I probably should have paid more attention to the coming Great Depression. Just because the Frau has this unhappy habit of checking our retirement plan every day and announcing loudly how much more money we've lost, I still figured everything would be OK down the road, even at $5 a gallon gas. Maybe that comes from watching too many movies. ...more

June 27, 2008

ODESSA - Two dogs and two cats perished tonight in a fire that consumed a house in a rural area near Pine Valley Drive, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue officials said. ...more

June 17, 2008