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Tweet Alright, pet detectives: We’ve got a new case, unfortunately. Scout the cat went missing April 30 near Falmouth and 79th Street in Prairie Village. Owner Dawn Mundy says she’s gotten some calls about possible sightings since putting up fliers about the wayward feline, but Scout isn’t home yet. Scout was wearing a pink collar. [...]
Tweet Well, friends, it’s been about four months, so we figured it’s probably about time for another installment in our wildly popular and just as wildly infrequent “Talk amongst yourselves” series. Today’s conversation starter comes courtesy of reader Francie Bailey Wendlandt, who posted the following call for sanity in an insane world on our Facebook [...]
Tweet Furry friends who find themselves lost in Prairie Village may soon have a temporary – and in some cases permanent — place to call home. Prairie Village Police are exploring whether to switch to a new facility to provide boarding service for animals picked up by Prairie Village Animal Control. At present, such animals go to [...]
Tweet Well, readers, after an initial bit of happy news we passed along last week, we’ve got a sad development to report. Boone the cat, who was injured in a fight with an unleashed dog near 69th Street and Fonticello, took a turn for the worse after returning home and died yesterday. Owner Deric Stewart [...]
Tweet Well, dear readers, we’ve got a happy ending to report. Regular visitors will no doubt recall the story of Boone the cat, who went missing from his owners after getting into a fight with a loose dog a week and a half ago. Owner Deric Stewart tells us that after being gone for five [...]
Tweet PVPost.com reader Dav Bettenhausen sent along pics of a dog he found near 69th and Fonticello in Prairie Village Saturday. If this is your dog, or you know whose dog it is, email him at bettenhausen [at] mac.com. UPDATED: Puppy and puppy parents have been reunited.
Tweet Protest from Reinhardt neighborhood residents doesn’t appear to have deterred the United States Postal Service from moving forward with plans to replace door-to-door mail delivery in the area with “cluster boxes” as a response to what the service characterizes as threatening behavior from area dogs. On Friday, the Postal Service installed two new cluster [...]
Tweet Fairway City Treasurer Bob Mapes loved his dog Hank, often bringing him to City Hall, where the big yellow Labrador would wait by Mapes’ feet while he attended to business. And Mapes loved making sure Hank had a special status with the city. “Each year, he’d be the first one in line to get [...]
Tweet We thought we’d pass along a note we received from a reader who lives in the Indian Fields area. Apparently, several residents in the area have let their dogs out in the backyard to find their gates open, allowing their dogs to escape: The night of the snowstorm, January 11, I let my dog [...]
Tweet What with everyone dusting off their copy of the Christmas story, we figured it was probably time to give you an update on a local call that a census be taken. The animal enumeration that Prairie Village conducted beginning in September has come to a close, and the seven canine counters who canvassed the [...]
Tweet Following the recommendations of city staff, the Mission Hills city council on Monday decided not to pursue adding Rottweilers to the city’s dangerous dog ordinance. Pit Bulls, however, will remain banned in the city. Per the council’s instructions at its October meeting, the city’s administrative staff pulled data on dog bites in Prairie Village, [...]
Tweet The Mission Hills city council is considering banning residents from owning Rottweilers. The move comes after a recent incident in which a dog attacked a person within the city limits, prompting an reexamination of the city’s domestic animals regulations. During discussion of proposed amendments to the regulations at the council’s September meeting, councilman Roy [...]
Tweet In those days Shaffer Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of all the four legged beasts with tails that wag and throats that purr. So Prairie Village census enumerators went house-to-house all across the land, knocking on people’s doors and asking them if they had any dogs or cats. Which [...]
Tweet It’s been kind of a rough week for proponents of public puppy participation. First came news that the Prairie Village public pool was shutting down early for the season on account of the Crypto outbreak across the county, a move that necessitated the cancelation of the city’s planned first “Paws in the Pool” event. [...]
Tweet Kids looking forward to a big Labor Day weekend at the pool aren’t the only victims of the precautionary measures to stop cryptosporidium infection at Johnson County pools. Cuddly canines will feel the effects of the anti-crypto crusade as well. Prairie Village has been forced to cancel its inaugural Paws in the Pool event, [...]
