On Saturday, we had news of a dog-napped Maltese in Windsor Terrace. (We had it, along with other blogs and the Daily News runs the story today without any reference to the many emails circulated by the dog napping victim to get the word out or of the blog posts about the dog-napping.) Yesterday, we […]

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Here’s a heartbreaking little story that combines the awfulness of having one’s home broken into with the horror of finding they have taken one’s dog. An email and flier is circulating widely on discussion boards about a little dog in Windsor Terrace who was dognapped. Here is the email: I am posting to all the […]

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The Park Slope Food Coop prides itself on serving organic produce and, at least in one case, it includes a very hearty frog. The frog traveled from South Florida to the Park Slope Food Coop in some lettuce and then spent three days in a Prospect Heights fridge. “Rather than get hopping mad, Brechbuhler and […]

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Seen on Prospect Park West at the Ninth Street entrance to Prospect Park.

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On Friday, a thread popped up on the Prospect Heights Forum on Brooklynian about a little white dog that had been found wandering on Eastern Parkway and had been taken in. There was discussion about finding his owners. The dog’s photo was posted on flickr. By Friday night, he was reunited with his people. We […]

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It would appear that two of the Prospect Park red-tail hawks are also hanging around Grand Army Plaza and, uh, doing some food shopping. There are several comments in a new thread on Brooklynian about the hawks. They have been seen on Plaza Street near Butler Street and St. John’s. Another poster writes, “I’ve seen […]

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We don’t know who adopted the two killer cute kitties that we featured yesterday who were residents of BARC, but we got word from our friend Miss Heather that “by the time I got to BARC today (3:00-ish) both Brandy and Alexandra were adopted! Horatio and Gitano are still available and they have a TON […]

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If you read GL, you know we totally love animals. The kitties pictured here are still available for adoption at the BARC Shelter in Williamsburg. Our friend Miss Heather passed along this email and links to some of the photos of these kitties (that’s Brandy on the left and Alexandra on the right): Would you […]

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[Photo via The Great Fredini/Coney Island Message Board] No, we don’t note every appearance of Monk Parrots in a new spot in Brooklyn. But, when someone posts pics of the birds in Coney Island, we think it’s post-worthy. This picture was posted by The Great Fredini on the Coney Island Message Board. He wrote: “We […]

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If your heart doesn’t melt when you see the photos of these kitties available for adoption at BARC, well, you know…Give the gift of a loving home to some killer cute cats this Christmas.–New York Shitty

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From the good people that bring us brooklynparrots.com and know everything that there is to know about our Brooklyn parrots.

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We’re behind the curve on this, yet, want to note this information: “A beluga whale that once delighted visitors to Brooklyn’s Coney Island died early Saturday at an aquarium in Georgia. The female whale, named Marina, died about 2 a.m. at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, said Jeff Swanagan, the aquarium’s president and executive director. […]

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We saw this on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg yesterday. If you can give Lula a loving home, all the info is below.

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There are several emails and communications to report in the Park Slope Pigeon Serial Killings situation. On Thursday night, the Brooklyn Paper published a story by editor Gersh Kuntzman–who had covered Park Slope pigeon killings in the 1980s. Several emails have subsequently hit our inbox. Two of them are from the “Pigeon Advocate” (PA) who […]

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We heard from the woman who calls herself the “Pigeon Advocate” again, and it turns out that important evidence that could have furthered the ASPCA investigation of the Park Slope Pigeon Killings of 07 was thrown away. (Which is what one might tend to do with a sack full of dead pigeons.) She explains: The […]

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As it turns out, Brooklyn Paper editor Gersh Kuntzman has a bit of history with the Park Slope pigeon serial killings, having reported on the 1998 dart killings. When reports of the new massacre and fliers surfaced he went over to Eighth Avenue and Sixth Street in the Slope to try to find the source […]

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We have seen ASPCA Humane Enforcement vehicles in Park Slope near the site of the alleged pigeon mass murders twice this week. There are no reports of any dead pigeons being found this week. In the meantime, we found this description on the New York City Bird Club website: Last week in my passings there […]

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We spotted the actual Gowanus Canal swans and got them in photos and on video. We watched one of them swim from the Union Street Bridge to the Third Street Bridge, where it joined its mate and paddled around for while. We don’t know if they understand that Prospect Park Lake is just a short […]

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There have been no breaks that we know of in the case of the alleged Park Slope Pigeon serial killings. However, we heard from the woman at the center of the feather storm, who is known as the Pigeon Advocate. She says she wasn’t serious about installing surveillance cameras as her fliers say, but was […]

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We’ve had a lot of Gowanus fauna items this week, including people catching foot-long bluefish and taking them home for dinner and (thank you, readers for your help identifying this creature) a cormorant we photographed doing some fishing of its own. A blogger and reader sent us a link yesterday to his own post about […]

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Yesterday, we posted about people fishing in the Gowanus Canal, catching foot-long bluefish and eating the catch. The bird on the Gowanus in this photo is also fishing. In the past, we’ve posted about herons and other birds around our favorite canal, but we’d never seen one of them for ourselves. So, we were excited […]

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The Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition Shelter is having a fundraiser at The Gutter, the bar/bowling alley at 200 North 14th Street in Williamsburg. Doors open at 6:30. All proceeds, of course, go to benefit BARC. For more information, click here.

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Our friends at Slope Street Cats sent out an “action alert” about what people can do to stop the possible extermination of the feral cat colony by the Port Authority at JFK Airport. We understand that in a world full of horrors and deprivation, the fate a few hundred cats at an airport aren’t world […]

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The owner of the dachshund that was attacked and nearly killed in Prospect Park at the dog beach this week by another dog left a comment late last night on one of our posts. We think it’s worth sharing here: I am the owner of the dachshund. He is a mini wirehaired named Wolfgang with […]

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Yesterday, we posted about an attack by another dog on a dachshund at the popular Dog Beach in Prospect Park. The attack was originally noted in emails posted to the Park Slope Parents group board that were forwarded to us by a reader. The story was later updated and clarified on the Park Slope Forum […]

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