Welcome to the SD, Ying. Great first post, I don’t care how old it is! 
I once read a tale on the Bad Porn LJ community about a guy who had trained his dog to uh, service him. He’d volunteer as a dog sitter for people just so he could romance their dogs.
So now when I see the trailer for “Must Love Dogs”, I can’t help but think of that.
shudder
The couple were so offended and sickened by what they saw that they eventually had to stop watching
yingtongtiddleipo, you will find that there is quite a variety of personal experiences posed on the SDMB: Oldscratch wins the TMI
You know, on my first pass through the first paragraphs I thought the story was about Martin Hyde, which gave me a start.
I had to remove most of the quoted text in your OP, yingtongtiddleipo, because what you posted went beyond Fair Use in copyright laws. I’d even post a link to the original article, but I didn’t want to navigate the Yorkshire Evening Post’s site (it’s very noisy and ugly).
At any rate, when you post excerpts from a news article (or any other copyrighted work), be sure to just give us a few lines of text–enough for us to get the general idea. Quoting the entire article, however, please don’t do that.
I don’t have a link, but those of you in So. California may have seen this story on the news the past few days. Some guy was arrested after it was discovered he was abusing (errr, you know what I mean) his dog with a broom handle. What I found so strange and yet oddly endearing was that afterwards, he would sleep naked in the doghouse with the dog he had just conquered. A man who likes to cuddle afterwards!
Hmm, being from the coverage area of the particular newspaper, I don’t recall reading this story, when I do online searches I get this,
http://www.plaintivewail.com/pw/jan00/1_12_00.htm
Then I get a post on another forum dated December 1999
http://www.petting-zoo.net/~deadbeef/archive/4478.html
Then another one dated 2001
So what we have is a story that moves from Yorkshire, to London, and supposedly was very recent but yet occurs on four separate dates.
Methinks there are some credulous folk out there, and here too.
summary - Total bullshit !