50,000 dogs slaughtered in China in anti-rabies campaign (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A county in southwest China has ordered all 50,546 dogs to be killed in an effort to fight a rabies outbreak that has caused the deaths of three people, state media has said.

Heat is just plain hairy for dogs in summer (Bradenton Herald)
Carol Frederick calls it the “guilts.” These pangs of pet indebtedness lead to bizarre, desperate behavior. Like the lady who locks her dogs in her car with the air conditioner running.

Chinese county culls 50,000 dogs (CNN.com)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) — A county in southwestern China has killed as many as 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered campaign following the deaths of three local people from rabies, official media reported on Tuesday.

Mad Dogs, Englishman, Leopards Go Out in Indian Jungle: Travel (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) — “We always know when the leopards are here,'’ my hostess said as we sat on the terrace of her home on a jungle hillside in northern India. “The dogs start to disappear from the villages. I never let mine out at night.'’

Village has gone to the dogs (East Liverpool Review)
WELLSVILLE - Yes, the village has gone to the dogs, but to the aid of the dogs, not destruction as the phrase implies. The members of the St. Francis Animal Shelter organization have volunteered numerous hours to clean and paint what formerly was known as the Wellsville Dog Pound.

50,000 dogs slaughtered in China in anti-rabies campaign (Gulf Times)
BEIJING: A county in southwest China has ordered all 50,546 dogs to be killed in an effort to fight a rabies outbreak that has caused the deaths of three people, state media said yesterday.

Feds may use ferrets to control prairie dogs (Casper Star-Tribune)
COLBY, Kan. (AP) — The federal government is considering an experiment that would use ferrets to reduce the exploding population of prairie dogs in Logan County.