Power couple hire detective, post reward for lost dog

Journal News - What do most people do when they lose their dog? Call the shelter, put up posters, pester the cops and try to get over the Bestowed with an expensive pedigree and a rare coat of blond fur, the pampered pooch had his own agent and was training for
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Was Gus dognapped for his good dachshund looks?
Chicago Sun-Times - NEW YORK — Gus the dog was living a luxe lifestyle: He had his own agent and was training for work as an advertising model. That is, until the rare, cream-colored dachshund disappeared a few weeks ago. Pet detective on the case Now the dog’s owners
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Fire out of control in the Pinelands
Philadelphia Daily News - A Pinelands forest fire that was probably sparked by a flare dropped during an Air National Guard training mission was burning senior citizen who turned to the makeshift shelter, left her home in the Atlantic Hills development with just her dog and
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‘Out of control’ dog attacks kids
News.com.au - We need compulsory muzzles in public, childproof enclosures to be mandatory, leashes mandatory, training mandatory, license to own a dog, mandatory, dog training, mandatory. Criminal charges for those whose dog attacks, kills or injurs a person with
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Dog-adoption event: a lot to wag about

Seattle Times - This puppy, with the chocolate-colored coat, was one of 75 dogs from six Washington shelters at Sunday’s Spring into Adoption event. Hundreds of kids and adults came to the Academy of Canine Behavior in Bothell to meet the animals; and 68 were
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War Stretches Nation’s Ammo Supply
Baltimore Sun - Guys like those for prairie dogs and coyotes primarily,” he said. At Darr’s Shooting Supply in Chattanooga, Tenn., the wait for some types of ammunition was four months at the end of 2006, said salesman Jeff Brewton. Given the Army’s need for
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Are pets or pet owners to blame when dogs attack?
KHOU - It could be any morning at any post office. Like performers in a well-choreographed production, letter carriers sort out the mail and suit up for battle. But they re not preparing to battle rain, sleet, snow or dark of night. They re getting
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West rates Dogs’ win
News.com.au - WESTERN Bulldogs midfield master Scott West last night described yesterday’s 10-goal turnaround against Collingwood as the team’s best victory in 12 months. The stunning appraisal, which includes the team’s wins over West Coast and Adelaide last year
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Amputee dogs inspire in pet therapy program
Quad Cities Onlines - CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Cassie was hit by a car and left for dead on a Texas road, the German shepherd’s leg broken beyond repair. Faye was shipped by truck to a New York dog store, where the Maltese pup was mishandled, dropped and shipped back
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Charting Chrysler’s next move

San Francisco Gate - 4 billion sale of Chrysler Group to a New York private-equity firm could mark a bold opportunity for one of the great names It doesn’t bode well that the firm buying Chrysler is named after the three-headed dog that guarded the gates of hell Continued

Cincinnati Enquirer - District Court for the Southern District of Florida on behalf of three cat and dog owners in Michigan and Florida, names 15 food companies and retailers as defendants, including Menu Foods, P&G and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. In a press release, the law firm Continued

Anderson Independent-Mail - Brown will announce at Starr Elementary what the name of one of the new K9 officers is and who at the school named the dog Police spokeswoman Linda Dudley said the names of the dogs will not be released until after the presentations have been made. Continued

Shop aid for hearing dogs charity

Crewe Guardian - A SPECIALLY trained hearing dog has paid a visit to The Hearing Company in Crewe. Paddy and owner June Hartstone visited the company, which is based at Scrivens Opticians in the Victoria Centre, in celebration of its donation to the Hearing Dogs for Go

Toddler hospitalized after attack by pit bull

Boston Online - The girl, who police said was 2 years old, was frolicking in her cousin’s backyard on Pond Street, playfully chasing a mixed-breed dog. But when she turned her attention to the other family pet, a pit bull named Apollo, the dog bit her, said Find Out More

Biting the dogs: some red hots at the ballpark

Baltimore Sun - When baseballs fly, hot dogs will be eaten. This seems to me to be a basic fact of Baltimore life. I don’t devour many hot dogs at home, but as soon as I enter a baseball stadium and see the players on the greensward cavorting in what former player More

MSN UK News - And now, after checking out what sure seemed like a promising lead _ a human head in bubbling water _ police say what Brian Sloan was doing was about as illegal as boiling hot dogs. “It doesn’t seem to be anything nefarious at this time,” police Lt More

MSN UK News - Captain Ricky Ponting is expecting Australia to continue their domination of world cricket unless their opponents raise their game. The Aussies have just claimed a hat-trick of World Cup triumphs and are ready to show they can manage without the More