chihuahua

A family dog died a hero protecting four children from a mountain lion in their backyard.

The pup’s owner has been with him for the vast majority of his life after adopting him from an animal shelter when he was just a few months old, according to Guinness World Records.

An abused dog that was found abandoned Monday in Randolph, Massachusetts, will undergo surgery to amputate his shattered hind leg Tuesday. “There’s no chance of viably keeping the leg attached,” Norfolk Animal Control Officer Hilary Cohen said. “It bothers me people would leave an animal in this condition.” Several employees of a nearby gym found the young chihuahua mix...

Prancer has adjusted to both his new life and his viral celebrity status quite well.

Have you ever heard of a Chihuahua described as a “haunted Victorian child”? What about a “Chucky doll in a dog’s body”? Well, now you have! A tweet about a “demonic Chihuahua” named Prancer who is up for adoption has gone viral on Twitter due to the brutally honest description written by his foster owner of what potential adopters could expect...

Two smugglers have been sentenced to federal prison for leading three sisters from Mexico into California, where they froze to death in a mountain snowstorm

Attack killed nine members of three American families traveling together in convoy of SUVs.

As Mexican soldiers stood guard, a mother and two sons were laid to rest in hand-hewn pine coffins in a single grave dug out of the rocky soil Thursday at the first funeral for the victims of a drug cartel ambush that left nine American women and children dead. Clad in shirt sleeves, suits or modest dresses, about 500 mourners...

When drug cartel gunmen opened fire on American women and children in northern Mexico, the Mexican Army, the National Guard and Sonora state police were not there to protect them. It took them about eight hours just to arrive. To villagers and others, the bloodshed seemed to demonstrate once more that the government has lost control over vast areas of...

The nine U.S. citizens who were killed in a brutal ambush by drug cartel gunmen Monday while traveling in Mexico belonged to a Mormon offshoot group that has been touched by cartel violence before, NBC News reports. The group was part of the extended LeBaron family, Mormon fundamentalists who first came to Mexico nearly a century ago — when the...

At least three women and six children, all apparently U.S. citizens, were slaughtered by drug cartel gunmen in northern Mexico.

In the border town of El Paso, Texas, a shooter opened fire and left 22 people dead and more than two dozen injured. Hours later in Dayton, Ohio, a shooter killed 9 people and injured at least 27 others.

Police say a pit bull has attacked and killed a Chihuahua. The attack happened outside a house in Waterbury on Sunday.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Saturday his country must help Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence, even as it increases security and revisions to deter migrants from passing through Mexico on route to the U.S. Mexico plans to deploy 6,000 National Guard troops by Tuesday to its southern border with Guatemala to slow the arrival of migrants and...

A transient probationer was charged Tuesday with binding a runaway Chihuahua and repeatedly kicking the dog in Santa Ana.

A Mexican man who once sought sanctuary from deportation in a Colorado church was detained by federal immigration agents Wednesday morning as he went to a warehouse to get tile to install on a job, his wife said Wednesday. Arturo Hernandez has one daughter who is a U.S. citizen and a second protected from deportation under an Obama administration program...

A Florida man was arrested after deputies say he hanged his mother’s dog from a tree and threatened to commit suicide during an eight-hour standoff.

The father of ex-LAPD officer Henry Solis was arrested Thursday for allegedly helping his son evade authorities when he was wanted for the murder of a California man.

A man is arrested and charged with cruelty to animals after police say he threw a Chihuahua against the window of a Houston Starbucks.