Patrick: A video update
Here’s a video update posted by the Newark Star-Ledger yesterday on Patrick — the starved, abused and discarded pit bull who has captured America’s heart. Two weeks have passed since Patrick was...
View ArticlePatrick’s owner enters not guilty plea
A not guilty plea was entered Friday on behalf of Kisha Curtis, the Newark woman accused of animal cruelty charges stemming from the discovery of a dog who’d been tossed down a trash chute and left to...
View ArticleIn Patrick’s name: Newark mayor calls for new shelter in honor of starved pit...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker is asking the public for a birthday present — a new animal shelter to be built in honor of Patrick, the pit bull dumped down a high rise apartment building’s trash chute and...
View ArticlePatrick’s gets surgery; hair mass removed
Patrick, the dog found starved nearly to death after he was dumped down a high-rise apartment building’s trash chute in Newark, now weighs in at more than 35 pounds. And that’s without the petrified...
View ArticlePatrick: His health is good, his former owner heads to trial, and his custody...
A year has passed since a starving pit bull was put in a plastic bag, dropped down a trash chute and found in a garbage bin at a high-rise apartment complex in Newark. Just look at him now. Dubbed...
View Article18 months later, case is not resolved, bill is still pending, but Patrick’s...
A year and a half after a starved pit bull was found at the bottom of a trash chute at a Newark high rise apartment — looking more like a corpse than a pet — the dog who would go on to be named Patrick...
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