101-year-old woman adopts unwanted 11-year-old toothless chihuahua, brought ‘joy’ to the house

After months at a dog rescue, 11-year-old chihuahua Gnocchi, rescued from a hoarding home, faced a bleak future. Overlooked and toothless, his spirit waned. Simultaneously, 101-year-old Johanna Carrington mourned her dog Rocky’s loss, yearning for companionship. Fate intervened, uniting them through Muttville Senior Dog Rescue, a haven for aging dogs. Carrington, grieving Rocky’s 2022 passing,…

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Northbridge animal control officer mistakes dog for coyote, shoots and kills it

NORTHBRIDGE, Mass. — A man in Northbridge is grieving after police say an animal control officer shot and killed his nearly 11-month-old husky, Odin, whom he mistook for a coyote. “It’s like losing a child,” explained Kirk Rumford, Odin’s owner. The Northbridge Police Department received two, separate calls about a coyote sighting around midday Tuesday,…

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