$50 fee for un-neutered dogs head and her (Chicago Sun-Times)
Dog owners have been thumbing their noses at the city’s mandatory dog license for decades. Chicago has roughly 500,000 dogs. It sells only 20,072 licenses.

Sea Dogs avoid sweep (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
TRENTON, N.J. - Mike James fanned Matt Carson and Aarom Baldiris with the tying run at third base in the ninth inning as the Portland Sea Dogs held on for a 3-2 win over the Trenton Thunder Thursday.

Couple jailed for dangerous dogs (BBC News)
A husband and his wife are sentenced to six months in prison for owning and breeding dangerous dogs.

Police dogs are invaluable to their human partners (KXLY-TV Spokane)
SPOKANE — On any given day, there’s more than a half dozen dogs working for Spokane area law enforcement agencies, helping police collar criminals. Just last week, Spokane brought its drug sniffing canine program back into service.

Children, Teaching Assistant Attacked By Dogs (WCVB TheBostonChannel.com via Yahoo! News)
Two dogs attacked three children and a teaching assistant at a Falmouth school Thursday.

DNA testing is for the dogs (USA Today)
As the cost of DNA analysis plummets, a new test out this summer is the second to promise owners an answer to the most frequently asked question in the vet’s office: “What is my dog?” With up to 50% of all dogs in America mixed breeds, it’s a big question.