Deputies find suspected cocaine, 4 neglected dogs at home neat West Palm (Sun-Sentinel)
Deputies investigating an argument at a home west of West Palm Beach found suspected cocaine and four possibly mistreated dogs on Sunday, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

Dogs to sniff out counterfeit movies (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Two black labradors have become the motion picture industry’s latest weapon against counterfeiters who are causing billions of dollars in losses to movie producers.

Malaysia uses sniffer dogs to fight movie pirates (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Malaysia deployed two sniffer dogs in its battle against music and movie piracy on Tuesday, becoming the first country in the world to use the animals to hunt for disks of illegal recordings hidden in cargo. Two female Black Labradors, “Flo” and “Lucky,” demonstrated their technique by sniffing through piles of sealed cartons in an air cargo hangar and then signaling their handler about a …

Baseball & 25-cent hot dogs (Baytown Sun)
The Lee Gander Baseball Boosters will be offering a Spring Break Special of 25-cent hot dogs during all home games this week at Herrington Field. District play begins today, weather permitting, with the sophomore and junior varsity teams at home against Kingwood.

More Red Cells May Help Athletes. How About Dogs? (New York Times)
Elite athletes in many sports use the ?rest high, train low? strategy to improve endurance. Can it help sled dogs?

Control of dogs and junk backed (Mobile Press-Register)
Mobile County officials need to start policing wild dogs and piles of junk in unincorporated parts of the county, and they need to start soon, said several residents at a Mobile County Commission meeting Monday.

Lawsuit objects to gas chambers for dogs, cats (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
A pet owner and a former state lawmaker filed a lawsuit in Atlanta today to try to stop animal shelters from using gas chambers to kill unwanted cats and dogs. The lawsuit, filed in Fulton County Superior Court, names the Georgia Department of Agriculture and its commissioner, Tommy Irvin, claiming he violates state law by allowing the sometimes painful procedure instead of injections. “Many …

Feds Give Metra More Bomb-Sniffing Dogs (NBC 5 Chicago)
Metra is taking up federal authorities’ offer of providing more bomb-sniffing dogs to the transit agency.

Metra brings in the big dogs (The Naperville Sun)
More bomb-sniffing dogs could be on the way for Metra, now that the commuter rail agency has taken the Transportation Security Administration up on its offer to provide free dogs and training.

Dogs not wanted on beaches in Camden Pay-to-park plan lights no fires either (Camden Herald)
CAMDEN Selectboard members repeated their views against allowing dogs on public beaches March 5.