BABY KILLERS: ‘GUARD DOGS, NOT PETS’ (Daily Mirror)
SHOCKED families living near the pub where two rottweilers savaged to death a five-month-old girl last night told how they lived in terror of the snarling dogs.

Scared of dogs? (BBC Radio 1)
There’s shock at the death of a five-month-old baby who was mauled by two dogs in a pub in Leceister.

Inquiry after baby killed by dogs (BBC News)
Police are investigating the death of a baby who was attacked by two Rottweiler guard dogs.

Cats, dogs uprooted by war are coming to U.S. for adoption (Miami Herald)
combo cutline They endured a summer of war, but now relief is coming for Lebanon’s little-known victims — cats and dogs abandoned when their owners fled the country during the early days of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

Sibling dogs seek new home (Philadelphia Daily News)
This week’s Adopt-a-Pets at the Pennsylvania SPCA, 350 E. Erie Ave., are 6-year-old Roxie and her baby brother Oscar, 3. Two very sweet dogs that have lived together for more than a year, the brother and sister love being around each other and would like to be adopted together.

In tug-of-war for space, prairie dogs losing fight (Rocky Mountain News)
It’s been a bad few weeks for prairie dogs and their human champions. The Colorado Wildlife Commission declined to give the black-tailed prairie dog year-round protection from being shot, instead giving them safe harbor on public lands only between March 1 and June 14.

Police Probe After Pub Dogs Kill Baby (Sky News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Police are continuing to investigate how two Rottweiler dogs left guarding a pub mauled to death a five-month-old girl. The animals, trained to act as guard dogs, mauled the baby in the living quarters of the Rocket pub in the New Parks area of Leicester at the weekend.