You may be a responsible dog owner who does the right thing with your pet -- but there's always some irresponsible jerk who unleashes danger on everyone else, literally. Caren and Laine Henry were walking their beagle on a leash when a Labrador-retriever mix named "Buddy" came tearing out from nowhere and sunk his teeth into Caren's thigh and abdomen. Then it attacked her face, breaking her sunglasses, biting and scratching her eyes, and finally tearing her nose off.

Can you imagine how terrifying? Laine tried to fight the dog off. The dog bit his left arm, but Laine bit the dog on the nose and it finally let loose. Laine's arm became so badly infected he's had to take a leave from his job moving heavy machinery. But of course Caren has it even worse -- they're hoping a series of reconstructive surgery can restore her nose.

Nothing makes my day like seeing a headline like this. Justin Bieber's Pet Monkey Quarantined in Germany. There's just so much I could say about that... but if I had to focus on one thing it would be: Wait, Justin Bieber has a pet monkey?!?

Yes. You are living in a world where Justin Bieber has a monkey. It really has come to that. Mally is a 14-week-old capuchin Bieber received as a gift. Apparently while he was traveling with said monkey to Germany he failed to produce the necessary health certificate and registration papers. So Mally was taken to a shelter and Biebs has four weeks to get his papers in order and have his monkey. And touch it. And loooove it.

As if stealing from an elderly woman while she's out to church wasn't low enough, 21-year-old David Senior allegedly went and kicked the woman's dog in the face so hard it left the pooch blind in one eye in the process. Talk about scum.

It happened last September, when Kiri, an 8-year-old collie was home alone. She saw the burglar enter the home, and was likely attempting to protect it. When her owner, an 86-year-old woman, who doesn't want to be identified, returned later that night, she found her precious dog seriously injured. Even though doctors tried, poor Kiri's eye couldn't be saved, and she was left blind in one eye. 

A Wisconsin 14-month-old boy died yesterday under horrible circumstances. The toddler was killed by two pit bulls at his babysitter's house. The sitter called 911 to say she and the boy were being attacked by the dogs. There's no word yet on what provoked the attack -- only the heartbreaking news that the child died soon after being rushed to the hospital.

If any other breed of dog had been involved, you'd never see it in the headline. But pit bulls have a bad reputation for violence. And yet, I hear people defend those dogs all the time. What's the deal with this breed? Are pit bulls really that dangerous -- and should they even be allowed around children?

A prizewinning show dog has died mysteriously. And while the police haven't called it, I'm gonna just say -- I think the dog was murdered! Cruz, a 3-year-old Samoyed, competed in his first Westminster show this year and was at another competition in Colorado a few days later when he suddenly died. Both Cruz's co-owner and his trainer suspect the dog was poisoned.

Cruz was at the competition when he became sick and started vomiting blood. He was rushed to a vet, where he died from internal hemorrhaging. Poor thing! His co-owner and handler say he's never alone, so they don't know how this could have happened. But ... who would deliberately poison such an adorable puffball of a dog like Cruz?

Sad news, animal lovers. A Miami strip mall fire killed 30 puppies. I know! Horrible. No one likes to hear about puppies dying. It's so awful. Apparently, most of the puppies were French and English bulldogs. You know how bulldogs' distinctive noses and muzzles already cause respiratory problems? Well, the puppies died of smoke inhalation. So awful.

The bulldog puppies go for around $2,000 each, and the owner did not have insurance, so you can imagine what an expensive loss this is. Who cares about the money, though -- the owner says he doesn't care about that as much as the dogs. So many helpless animals died a terrible death. But! There is a little glimmer of hope in this story. Firefighters were able to rescue a handful of the puppies.

When you do video chats with family and friends, do your pets ever join in on the action? You know, do they ever sit there and stare and possibly even bark, growl, meow, etc., while you're chatting back and forth?

If not, then maybe you need to think about adding another animal into the mix to get the "conversation" started. If you haven't already seen this hilarious video on Facebook of two dogs Skyping each other, then get ready to laugh out loud. It's a good one, people.

And now for your daily squee! Will you please watch this video of a dog teaching a puppy to walk down the stairs? Because we can all use a little bit of this. It's so sweet and inspiring. And you know what else -- I think this video shows almost everything there is to say about parenting.

We start out with little Daisy at the top of the stairs, whining because she doesn't dare make her way down. Too steep! Along comes Simon to show Daisy how it's done. And he's incredibly patient and persistent.