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 (News 14 Carolina)
MURPHY, N.C. — Humane Society officials are looking for families for 85 dogs taken from a Cherokee County home. The Valley River Humane Society and the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department removed 111 Chihuahuas, Shih Tzu and Maltese dogs from the home of Sandra Headley last week.

Burgers, hot dogs & school spirit (Manteca Bulletin)
The McParland School Community Club cooked up hamburgers. Brock Elliott sold hot dogs. The Sequoia School Annex encouraged campus spirit. These were among the happenings taking place at Thursday s Back to School Night at the various Manteca Unified sites.

Photographer on a mission to save homeless dogs (WLNE-TV)
Hundreds of stray dogs are euthanized in southern New England each year. A local photographer took notice, and her canine candids have inspired a new book that just might save the lives of more homeless dogs. Julie Ruditzky reports.

Child Attacked By Dogs Returns Home From Hospital (WJXT Jacksonville)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The 9-year-old boy attacked by dogs as he arrived at his elementary school returned home from the hospital on Wednesday to continue recovering from his injuries.

Viral video ad campaign gives real scoop on indoor dogs (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
When an interviewer asks Rocco the pug if he’s an indoor pooper, the gruff talking pooch proclaims he’s a player. “Between you and me, all right, some dogs are good at communicatin’,” Rocco says on an Internet video. “Me, I’m more of a doer.

Hells Angels get $800,000 settlement in dogs’ deaths (Tulsa World)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The city agreed to pay nearly $800,000 to the Hells Angels motorcycle club to settle claims that police needlessly killed three dogs during raids on club members’ homes.

Going to the Dogs (BusinessWeek)
The game adaptation of Quentin Tarantino’s classic gorefest, Reservoir Dogs, doesn’t follow usual conventions