Hominy & Hash
American Reporter – The plan was for me to fly there, hop in the car with my daughter, her three young children and a puppy, and drive back to Georgia for their week’s vacation at the beach. Her husband couldn’t make the trip but he said she needed me to ride

King Co. examines establishing unit to investigate animal cruelty
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Prompted in part by the horrific abuse of a pit bull puppy in Federal Way in 2006, the King County Council called Monday for a look into creating an “Animal Precinct”-like unit of officers dedicated solely to cruelty cases. The council-commissioned

Buying a Puppy? Beware of New Scam
WTVD – Joy Schick’s Yorkshire Terrier “Lord Fredrick” was part of the family but at 17 years-old he got sick and had to be put to sleep. Eventually, Joy decided to get a new puppy, but nixed her neighborhood pet shop. “We just thought their prices were a

Humane Society Asks NFL To Ban Players Involved In Illegal Dog Fights
All Headline News – Finally, another Web site for Sanders Kennels, an Atlanta-area breeder, shows a picture of Vick holding a Presa Canario puppy, an animal the site says is “bred for loyalty, protection, guarding, and peace of mind. They can and will protect.” Copyright

Pepsi gets a Diet makeover
Indian Television – This recognises that people are drawn to jingles, facts and puppy dogs, and sings the praises of Diet Pepsi using all three. Life Lessons: This contrasts useless information like Pig

PBS KIDS Sprout Adds New Afternoon Block
World Screen News – The block, airing every afternoon from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., is hosted by Miles (played by actor Milton Barnes) and his puppy friend Banjo, a puppet who loves to play her homemade banjo. Everyday, they embark on a musical journey in their cardboard car

Family loses home, then dog
Winnipeg Free Press – The puppy, a two-month-old chocolate Labrador named Bear, had been a birthday present for Braydon Nolette, who turned four this weekend. “I’m offering $100 reward to get my puppy back, no questions asked,” said Nicole Nolette, 21, the mother of the

Warnings kept toll low in Kansas
Los Angeles Times – They ran home to retrieve his 8-month-old puppy, Sophie, and climbed down to their basement. When they heard the tornado approaching, J.D.’s father told him to get under a couch. Four minutes later, everything became quiet, so they went upstairs

Man Fights to Keep Muzzle off Dog
Ledger – In January, a complaint was filed stating that while Jardine was working as a bell ringer for the Salvation Army at a local Publix, Miden lunged at a puppy, knocking over the collection kettle. In March, the Sheriff’s Office received complaints about

Dog park fatality prompts review of the rules
Centre Daily – Her friend warned her. So did bystanders. She paid them no heed. And a tiny Maltese puppy paid the price. After a woman placed the wriggling puppy in the area of Tudek Dog Park reserved for large dogs last October, six dogs swarmed the ball of fluff

Worries linger about pet food
Richmond Times-Dispatch – Trayer uses a dry dog food, Purina Puppy Chow, and her terrier, Miki, hasn’t had problems. Dominic Prudente, who was walking his golden retriever, Lola, along Roseneath Avenue in Richmond on Thursday, said he was not worried about contaminated pet food

A perfect spring day on the Central Coast
Lompoc Record – You are never too sure who gets a better bath, the kids, Baxter, or dad as we all get to help give a puppy a bath he did not really want to take. The afternoon starts to fade into evening as I watch the sunlight make its way through the branches and

A plea from the author of Pirates
Kansas City Star – Maybe she should wind up with Burson, the object of her first puppy love, who, while younger than Jenny, is not an eighth-grader as I erroneously reported in Episode 2. (Sorry. I told you I ve been distracted.) Burson is a good boy from a normal

Hungry for donations
Jackson Clarion-Ledger – The shelter uses about 50 pounds of adult food and 25 pounds of puppy food daily. Around 125 animals are housed there. With all the donated food, only about $2,000 worth was bought from MARL funds last year, but Boswell expects that number to increase

Fun First: Dogs, owners laid back before today s competition
Sierra Vista Herald – It s more laid back, and younger puppies get to be in the ring, said Stacy Speer, a Fun Match organizer. The dog show is limited to pups aged 6 months and older. But the match made room for some teeny-tiny beginners. Mojo can only enter the

Pistons surely like what Bulls had to offer
Arlington Heights Daily Herald – I mean, can you hate a litter of cute little puppies? Can you hate the homeless? Can you hate any of society s powerless groups? The Bulls were harmless emasculated if you will while leading only 17 seconds of Saturday s 95-69 loss. We

U.S. prisons groom dogs for Iraq war veterans
Reuters – O’Brien reckons thousands are wounded badly enough to need assistance. “We are gearing up to meet that need and one way we are doing that is by doubling the number of puppies that we are placing in prison,” she said. Continued Reuters 2007

LETTER: Stand up for animals who can t fight for themselves
Anderson Independent-Mail – In one small case were 10 puppies crying and climbing on each other trying to get out of the hot sun. The guy behind the case could care less. He was obviously only interested in the money they would bring and had absolutely no compassion for these

29 dogs stranded
WISC News – They include three females and their 17 puppies, all about 12 weeks old. Mack has agreed to surrender most of her dogs, except three she will keep once she finds a place to live that allows animals. “Otherwise we would have to sit with (30-plus dogs

Thieves steal pair of pit bull puppies
Stratford Star – Two pit bull puppies reportedly were stolen from a home on South Avenue April 28 at 12:59 p.m. According to police, the complainant said sometime between noon and 1 p.m. her two 4-month-old puppies, Buddha and Junior, were taken from a side yard. The

Probe continues after RSPCA discovery
Hastings Today – One puppy with a severe eye infection had to be put down later in the day. An RSPCA spokesman said a major investigation was underway but added that the organisation could not comment further. The charity’s officers took photographs of conditions

Salisbury man cited for violations
Daily American Online – People have been calling the Humane Society of Somerset County about 17 dogs rescued from a puppy mill in Somerset County on Tuesday. Bennie D. Hostetler, 41, Nursery Lane, Salisbury, was cited Tuesday for not having licenses or rabies vaccinations

Teen Charged After Cutting Dog’s Ears With Shears
CBS 11 News – PALM BEACH, Fl. When pit bulls are in the news it is most likely because they ve been involved in a mauling incident, but in West Palm Beach it was the dog who was the victim of violence, after police say a teen cut the ears off a pit bull puppy

Punch line starts to change for this National joke
CBS News – Only kittens and puppy dogs. There are some solid teams, some good teams, but no dominant teams. There are no obscene payrolls upwards of $140 million, like the Yankees and Boston. There are no monster divisions like the AL Central

Drop the Apostrophe or the Puppy Dog Gets it!
Politics.ie – possessive is: the PD’s ridiculous manifesto. 5 PDs’ is only correct if you are using plural possessive. The 5 PDs’ ridiculous manifesto, for instance (because you have specified the number of PDs, rather than using it as a collective term. Though

What you need to know about the Humane Society
Chico Enterprise-Record – Striking blue eyesAspen is an all-white, male puppy with beautiful, ice blue eyes (number 007-3A035) available for adoption at the Butte Humane Society. A pitbull, his story is a sad one. Deaf and partially blind, Asapen is a sweet puppy that would

Feeding pup to snake insults humanity
AZCentral.com – The actions of Joseph Beadle, who will be sentenced this month for feeding a puppy to a boa, are indefensible, and there is no penalty that seems adequate for these crimes. I sincerely hope his judge continues to view his actions as horrific as they

Al Qaeda Hates Your Commute!
San Francisco Gate – It is spun and torqued and packaged and handed back to you like an unwanted gift, like that nasty polka-dot sweater you didn’t want for Christmas, and everyone seems to lap it up like force-fed puppy dogs and of course in the never-ending wake of

Ricki Lake’s “awesome” vagina
Salon – And at that point, were you like, ‘OK, I’m going to push this puppy out?” Lake nods in grinning affirmation that she had indeed pushed out that puppy, now known as 10-year-old Milo. “And all I needed was two superficial stitches!” It might sound like

What you need to know about the Humane Society
Chico Enterprise-Record – Striking blue eyesAspen is an all-white, male puppy with beautiful, ice blue eyes (number 007-3A035) available for adoption at the Butte Humane Society. A pitbull, his story is a sad one. Deaf and partially blind, Asapen is a sweet puppy that would

Stories and pictures from May 5, 1967
Werby Today – Seven hours after being trapped in a blazing Dutch barn, a five-week-old sheepdog puppy was pulled from the smouldering ashes almost uninjured. Nearby, three other puppies perished in the fire. It was 2pm on Saturday when the fire started. Soon the

Family copes after fire
Everett Herald – After reading about Wednesday’s fire, a Snohomish woman made the family an offer: a puppy. Her Pomeranian is expecting a litter in mid-May. “Oh, that is so sweet of her,” Irma Caldwell said when she learned of the offer. “Tell her I’ll love her forever

Pups pinched from pet shop
Streatham Guardian – An attractive, healthy puppy can quickly become a sick, unattractive puppy and lose its value, and we would not want them to be dumped somewhere to fend for themselves. “Our priority is their safe return.” Anyone with information should call DC Ron

Daisy’s Ice Cream scoops cool treats in time for Market Street
Commercial Dispatch – Daisy’s – which is named for Flaherty’s puppy – will be her first business enterprise. It will serve Blue Bell ice cream in a variety of flavors, from standards like homemade vanilla, strawberry and chocolate to exotics like Tin Roof and Birthday Cake