Smart dog or dumb police – Taipei’s Doggy 209 escapes again
Monsters and Critics – Taipei – Police in Taipei – either because the animal was too smart or they were too dim – on Thursday once again failed to capture a dog that has posed a hazard to traffic the Taiwan capital’s Sun Yat-sen Expressway for two years. Motorists and

Dog years, the bubble and Google
Marketwatch – NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Internet time is a bit like dog years in that one-year-old companies can seem to be seven times the age they really are. This is how I felt after attending three media/Internet gatherings here earlier this week. I had a

Vet lab names top dog
Badger Herald – An internationally renowned veterinarian will come to Madison this spring to work hand in hand with University of Wisconsin students as the head of one of the state s largest laboratories. Tom McKenna who currently directs the Foreign Animal

Parents sue over dog bite
Berkshire Eagle – PITTSFIELD The parents of an eight-year-old boy are suing a Pittsfield couple whose 3-year-old Jack Russell terrier bit their son on the right side of his face last February, reportedly causing a permanent scar that they claim requires extensive

Plea deals in dog’s starvation death
Chicago Tribune – A Crest Hill man was sentenced to prison and his daughter was given probation today after they admitted in plea deals that they starved their pet dog to death last year. Mark Obidowicz, 44, pleaded guilty to aggravated animal cruelty, a felony that

Doctor ‘diverted’ dog for training
Cincinnati Enquirer – CLEVELAND A Cleveland Clinic doctor who induced a brain aneurysm in a dog to demonstrate a medical device requested the animal without specifying it would be used for sales training, a federal investigator concluded. The neurosurgeon utilized

Why our top dog is much more than a pretty face
Evening News Norwich – Top dog Bow barely has time to paws for thought after being crowned the Pick Of The Pooches for the East of the country – because the perfect pet is in the running for a national title. Bow, a Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever from New Costessey has

Pac-10’s top dog: Arron or Aaron?
Daily Breeze – Halfway through the Pacific-10 Conference season, a strong case can be made that Oregon guard Aaron Brooks has been the league’s MVP. In nine conference games, he’s averaged a league-leading 22.3 points while shooting an amazing 55.6 percent from 3

The Auto Show reserves birthday hype for vehicles
Detroit News – Bring home a sporty Ford Focus from the auto show floor, is like picking out a 3-year-old beagle: No longer a puppy, but probably good with kids. That’s why you can’t bring home cars from the auto show floor, not to mention why you probably wouldn’t

RAVES, RANTS & ROSES, JANUARY 30
Tyler Morning Telegraph – I am not a legal beagle which is the reason why I do not understand that “shall exempt” can be thwarted by TJC college policy. In November 2006, I enrolled at the TJC School of Continuing Education, more commonly known as Regional Training and

Live it up in Downtown Indianapolis
dBusinessNews.com – Other stops within the Wholesale District include Andrus O Reilly s, Champs Sports Lounge, Coaches Tavern, Have a Nice Day Cafe, Legal Beagle Pub & Eatery, Pullman Bar, Olive s, The Pub Indianapolis, Subterra Lounge, Tiki Bob s Cantina, The

URI launches its search for new athletic director
Providence Journal – SOUTH KINGSTOWN The search for a new athletic director at the University of Rhode Island is getting off to an earlier-than-expected start. A nine-member committee, headed by university vice president Robert M. Beagle, was named yesterday to

Man’s Best Bud
Time – Sappho (an American cocker spaniel), Reveur (a Lab) and Zorba (beagle) necked a good bottle-and-a-half each and refused to give up their spots at the front of the bar. Averti, however, was clearly unimpressed with the standard of beverage on offer

American Traveler
American Reporter – It was he who gave Mount Fitz Roy its name, honoring an earlier explorer, England’s Robert Fitz Roy, who skippered the HMS Beagle on the famous voyage of 1831-36 with naturalist Charles Darwin. Fitz Roy and Darwin made an attempt to reach the

SAP’s New First Step
CRM Buyer – Denis Pombriant runs the Beagle Research Group, a CRM market research firm and consultancy. Pombriant’s research concentrates on evolving product ideas and emerging companies in the sales , marketing and call center disciplines. His research is

Dick Wolfsie
WISH-TV – He has written eight books, including his best-seller, Indiana Curiosities and Barney, The Stray Beagle Who Became A TV StarDick’s newest book, Wolfsie in Sheep’s Clothing, is a compilation of his humorous essays. He lives in Indianapolis with his

Unique B&B’s of the Northwest
NWCN – Toby, a 12-foot-tall beagle statue, was built by Dog Bark Park artists Dennis Sullivan and Frances Conklin. Sweet Willy, officially known as Dog Bark Park Inn, is one of America’s latest additions to the type of roadside

15,000-year-old ground sloth footprints found in Argentina
PhysOrg – Explorer Charles Darwin reported in his journal of travel aboard the Beagle finding in 1832 a scelidotherium fossil in Punta Alta near Bahia Blanca, south of Buenos Aires. Another Briton, Richard Owen, identified the scelidotherium in 1839 based on

Outdoor Notes by Tom Meade: Warm weather has produced some hot spots
Providence Journal – I certainly could have used one when my old beagle took off on a hare track. “With the Astro, there’s no wondering where your dog is or what he’s doing,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin’s vice president of worldwide sales. “There is no subscription or setup

The Home Team — Happy
Westport News – And while picking up the print from their house, I spotted on their coffee table Happy’s Christmas, which features on the cover one very engaging, mischievous-looking beagle. I told the Smiths, who very generously gave me a copy of the book, that

Wonderfully drawn Bark Mitzvah book is no dog
Jewish News Weekly – Alfie the beagle has a bark mitzvah and all his Jewish doggie relatives show up. Veteran children s author Shari Cohen s sparse prose is written in brace yourself doggerel. Not atypically, the book opens as such: It was quite a Bark

Downsizing’s downside
USA Today – We travel quite a bit and take our 4-year-old beagle,” she says. “We didn’t realize when we bought the Vibe that two kids and a dog are quite a snug fit in the back seat. Plus, my husband likes to pack everything except the kitchen sink.” Their future