Dogs Plus Smog Bad for Asthmatic Kids (HealthCentral.com) WEDNESDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) — Fido may not be an asthmatic child’s best friend, a new study suggests. A team at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine found that the presence of dogs in the home can worsen lung response to air pollution […]

SAN FRANCISCO / Rescue dogs hunt for missing baby / 5-month-old girl apparently taken from father’s car (San Francisco Chronicle) Police have brought in rescue dogs to help search for a 5-month-old girl who reportedly disappeared from her father’s car in San Francisco’s Mission District when he went into a corner store to buy cigarettes. […]

Today’s tip: Free hot dogs (Green Bay Press-Gazette) Acts 1:8 Ministry will give free hot dogs and soda at 2127 S. Oneida St. from 1 to 3 p.m. on Friday before the Green Bay Packers game against the Tennessee Titans. This is a planned act of Christian kindness.
Recognition for Hastings and Rother guide dogs […]

New Britain Bats Drive 6-1 Win Over Sea Dogs (WMTW Auburn) The top three in New Britain’s batting order reach base nine times, and three Rock Cats pitchers combine on a four-hitter in a 6-1 win over the Portland Sea Dogs.
Town Threatens To Euthanize Unlicensed Dogs (WCVB TheBostonChannel.com via Yahoo! News) Some dog […]

Seized dogs’ plight draws pet lovers to adoption (Asheville Citizen-Times) MURPHY — When the air-conditioned travel trailer containing about 20 dogs for adoption arrived Saturday morning in the parking lot by the Murphy Wal-Mart, there were already about two dozen people waiting, said Valley River Humane Society President Jim…
Volunteer groups work to help Bangkok’s […]

Couple Walking Dogs Finds Possible Human Remains (10 News San Diego) SAN DIEGO — A couple makes a gruesome find in Otay Mesa. The couple was walking dogs on a dirt road about a mile southeast of Caliente Avenue and state Route 905 Thursday night and came across what appeared to be human skeletal remains. […]

Bardot slams Geneva law to muzzle all dogs in parks (Reuters via Yahoo! News) French film star Brigitte Bardot on Friday slammed a new Geneva law requiring that all dogs be muzzled in public parks, adopted this week after a toddler was mauled by a pitbull.
111 dogs removed from Cherokee County woman’s home […]

San Jose agrees to pay Hells Angels $800,000 for dogs killed by cops (CP via Yahoo! Canada News) SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The city of San Jose agreed to pay nearly $800,000 to the Hells Angels motorcycle club to settle claims police needlessly killed three dogs during raids on club members’ homes.
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Barge was moved after dogs got scent (Tennessean) Specially trained cadaver dogs from Memphis led searchers to the body of a missing woman under a Riverfront Park barge, Metro officials said Tuesday.
WIGS FOR DOGS (Times Leader) Boutique wigmaker Ruth Regina of Miami is readying a line of hairpieces for teacup […]

Moss walks off the ‘Dogs winners, 10-9 (OurSports Central) Brandon Moss’s RBI double in the last of the ninth inning, lifting the Sea Dogs to a 10-9, come-from-behind victory over the Binghamton Mets on Monday night at Hadlock Field. Luis Jimenez led off the inning with a double and was replaced by pinch-runner Zach Borowiak, […]