April 24: Lindale Comes Up Empty-Handed
Tyler Morning Telegraph – Even a pit bull puppy just a few months old will not run up to play with strangers like most other breeds of happy-go-lucky puppies. You may think that is another sign of a bad dog, but not if the dog s job is to guard his family. There are a number

Dogs seized from business where animal skulls adorn fence
10 News – Investigators went into the compound and confiscated 10 Shepherd-mix dogs, including five puppies. A veterinarian at Hillsborough Animal Services found the dogs were infested with fleas, tested positive for heartworms and had facial and paw injuries

Apr 22, 09:14 AM
INS News – Apr. 22–WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Woof, woof. One night after Wilkes-Barre/Scranton coach Todd Richards intimated his “big dogs” played like puppies, the Penguins’ stars bared teeth and took down the Norfolk Admirals 5-2 at the Wachovia Arena to level

Treats, Eats and Squeaks: Eco-cat litter made from corn kernels,
Williamsport Sun-Gazette – The canned food comes in nutritious formulas such as chicken and brown rice, chicken, turkey and brown rice and turkey and chicken formula for puppies and active dogs. For cats, the company features chicken and brown rice, chicken and salmon, turkey

Leave the lions alone, say IOL readers
Independent Online – Lions are not Golden retriever puppies. He made an error, why should the lions pay for it? Bianca : I thought South Africa Was against the death penalty? Fanie Theron : It is plain stupidity to walk into a lions den unless your name is Daniel and you

Spanish Town remembers beloved dog
Baton Rouge Advocate – On one of his initial photography assignments for Gumbo Magazine at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, Baiamonte said, he came across a family giving away puppies. Since then he was always by my side and everyone else s, too, the 34

Sick Puppies
Alachua Post – The first year of college can be rough on incoming freshmen. Most of the time this is because they miss home, they miss their families and they miss their friends. Mallory Walsh, a University of Florida sophomore, suffered from the feeling of being

Buying From Professional Breeders
KHNL News 8 – Puppies and kittens from professional breeders receive early socialization and training to make them better pets. Animals are often sold from a waiting list created before breeding even takes place. Selling animals for economic gain is not the

WA attorney general, trade agency will probe gas prices
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Last updated April 23, 2007 4:50 p.m. PT WA attorney general, trade agency will probe gas prices THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OLYMPIA Border Patrol agent charged in killing of Mexican man Border Patrol agent charged in killing of Mexican man Man whose dog

Another dog attack as family mourns death
Stuff – Virginia Ohlson, 56, died following the attack by a pitbull and a Staffordshire cross just before 7am on Saturday while out walking in her home town of Murupara, 65km southeast of Rotorua. It has been revealed the dogs’ owner was her nephew, known

Teen hopes to get service dog
Sandusky Register – James Griggs, right, plays a game of Candyland with STNA Linda Garza at James’s home in Norwalk. Griggs, who is diagnosed with autism, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, will soon get a service

Another recall of dog and cat dry pet food
Philadelphia Daily News – WASHINGTON – A third company yesterday recalled pet foods made with an imported Chinese ingredient only recently found to have been contaminated by an industrial chemical. The pet-food ingredient, rice-protein concentrate, is the second found in the

Sudanese want action on Darfur
ABC News – They just come after us like a dog hunting a rabbit. The dog knows why it is hunting the rabbit but the rabbit does not,” he says. At the open-air Ozone cafe, where jazz gently buzzes in the background and increasingly wealthy Sudanese sip cappuccinos

Riggs Named Most ‘Beautiful Bulldog’
CBS News – Riggs beat out a 50-dog field that included the likes of Sir Grizwald Snorzalot, Napoleon Underbite and Crazy Legs Da Moose to take the crown. Contest organizers acknowledge the event is more about a winning personality than beauty. “The last thing

James Lileks: Im in ur account, fixin ur passw0rdz
Minneapolis Star Tribune – Well, your password is either PASSWODR, or the name of your dog. My dog is named “password,” so that’s out. If you use one password for everything, you run the risk of having all your accounts exposed if someone nabs your secret word. But if you have

Hawaii goes to the dogs and cats
Medford Mail Tribune – For years, visitors who wanted to bring their pets to Hawaii faced a four-month quarantine for the animals and they had to pay for it. But the rules changed in 2003, making it easier to avoid quarantine as long as other requirements are met to

Deadly dogs destroyed
NZCity – The two dogs responsible for a fatal attack on a woman in Murupara this morning have been put down. The dogs attacked a 56-year-old woman as she was out walking in Pine Street. Police and Ambulance teams were called to the scene just after 7a.m. by

Dogs on duty
Coeur d’Alene Press – Cody, one of eight rescue and recovery dogs with North Idaho Search Dogs, makes his way down a ladder from a second story window during a training session Thursday in Coeur d’Alene. The Australian shepherd/border collie mix has been in training for

Local Sports
Sun-Journal – Local Sports Maineiacs call off the dogs LEWISTON – Lewiston Maineiacs’ rookie David Perron swung from the top of the left faceoff circle toward the middle of the ice. He appeared to be the only one moving, and found himself alone in front of Rouyn

Borowiak leads Sea Dogs to win
Nashua Telegraph – MANCHESTER Second baseman Zach Borowiak went 2-for-4 and drove in two runs as the Portland Sea Dogs recorded a 4-2 win over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats in Eastern League action at Merchantsauto.com Stadium Saturday afternoon. Borowiak singled

Scouts shutout dogs
News Sun – Andrea Raffles tossed a three-hit shutout to help Lake Forest down visiting Wauconda 3-0 in a non-division contest on Friday. Raffles gave up just 3 hits with 4 strikeouts and 0 walks in the complete-game outing. Kristen Decker (2 for 3, RBI) and

Howard County resources
Baltimore Sun – Cat and dog licenses – Licenses are required for all cats and dogs over age 4 months. Licenses may be purchased at the Department of Inspections, Licenses and Permits (410-313-2455). The proper fee, a current rabies certificate and proof of neutering

Canine Cancer Cure – Human Cancer Benefit Effort Launched by MAF
Forbes – One in Four Dogs Will Die of Cancer – #1 Cause of Death in Dogs Over Age Two MAF Launches Unprecedented Effort to Cure Canine Cancer – Success Also Offers Opportunities for Human Cancer Advances Morris Animal Foundation Takes Leadership Role in $30

In Person
Austin Chronicle – Their Dogs Came With Them is a novel, but to fully appreciate it, approach it like a mural. While the grandness of a mural is what first commands attention, the viewer enters through its image details. After which, the viewer can then step back and

Hawaii hotels treat visiting pets well
Pravda – But the rules changed in 2003, making it easier to avoid quarantine as long as other requirements are met to ensure that the animals are free of rabies. As a result, arrivals of cats and dogs to the islands are up over 30 percent in three years, and

Dogs savage 80 lambs to death
Independent Online – A Wellington sheep farmer is hoping that 40 month-old lambs will survive the injuries inflicted on them by dogs that savaged 80 others to death. About half of the lambs were “struggling to stay alive”, Johan Steyn, owner of the farm Watervlei, said

Dogs give Williams, Harbrow AFL debuts
Australian Football League – The Western Bulldogs will give Tom Williams and Jarrod Harbrow their AFL debuts on Friday night against Richmond at the MCG. Williams, 20, is in his third year with the Bulldogs after being selected with pick six in the 2004 NAB AFL Draft. He has had

Eating Bacon And Hot Dogs Linked To Higher Risk Of Lung Disease
Medical News Today – A US study has linked eating cured meat like bacon and hot dogs with increased risk of lung disease. The study is published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and examines the link between frequent consumption of cured

Rejecting riders could cost cabbies
Seattle Times – Some also have refused to transport dogs, both pets and guide dogs, saying they are unclean. Commissioners said the old rules didn’t prevent customers from being stranded at the curb or as reported in a few cases dropped off before their

YOUR WHOLE PET
San Francisco Gate – Dogs, of course, will almost always eat whatever you put in front of them and even things you thought were safely out of reach on top of the refrigerator. Cats can be a different story, although getting them to make the switch from one diet to

Panel criticizes proposed Pa. dog-law changes
Philadelphia Daily News – The costs of renovating kennels and adding staff “are expected to far exceed what could be recovered by increasing purchase prices or adoption fees for puppies or dogs,” the Independent Regulatory Review Commission said in written comments Monday. Gov

US film industry’s sniffer dogs Lucky and Flo debut in Manila raid on
MSN UK News – The canine versions of Starsky and Hutch arrived in Manila, where they sniffed through locked steel doors, pointing authorities to stacks of pirated movie discs during a mall raid Monday. Fresh from a successful four-week stint in Malaysia, where

Dogs sent on wild goose chase
Courier News – AURORA — With one command — Go get the geese! — a black-and-white blur whizzed past, the jingle from her collar fading with each pounding paw. Maggie Mae, a 9-year-old border collie, was on patrol here at McCullough Park on Monday, when a company

Dogs shot by Border Patrol should at least be coyotes
AZCentral.com – A Bisbee man was in federal court last week on charges that he sprained the left little finger of a Border Patrol agent after the agent shot the man’s dog near the man’s home. A witness says the agent tried to run away after shooting the dog and then

Unleash the Hounds! Or Terriers, or Labs . . .
Washington Post – Dog parks — or community canine areas, as they’re known in Arlington — are bastions of sniffing, slobbering and tail-wagging where dogs can run leash-free. Some are fenced in; others are not. Though there are many parks where owners and their pups