Did Cats, Dogs Suffer For The Fur You’re Wearing? (KGTV TheSanDiegoChannel.com via Yahoo! News)
Support is building for a new law to end the cruel slaughter of cats and dogs for their fur.

Matagorda County students’ competition pigs killed by stray dogs (The Victoria Advocate)
BAY CITY - Two mixed-breed stray dogs attacked and killed two pigs that were being raised by Matagorda County students for competition in the Houston Livestock Show.

Prairie dogs’ dark side comes to light in political fight (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
FROSTBURG, MD. The world’s expert on lust, violence and cannibalism among prairie dogs uses a slide in his lectures that sums up a lifetime of research. Several of the squirrel-size creatures are shown perched on their hind legs: cute, cute, cute, cute, cute.

Man accused of killing dogs heads to trial (Pocono Record)
SNYDERSVILLE A Hamilton Township man will head to trial in Monroe County Court on charges of fatally shooting three dogs and then dumping their bodies on the side of Anchorage Road near Saylorsburg last December.

Diamond Dogs taking on top-ranked Tar Heels (The Shelby Star)
For the first time since its move to Division I, Gardner-Webb will have a team battling the nation s best as the Diamond Dogs travel to face top-ranked North Carolina today at 3 p.m. at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill.

Death Of Woman’s Dogs Possibly Caused By Illegal Dumping (KERO 23)
ARVIN — A local woman’s dogs are dead, possibly because they ate raw sheep meat dumped on a neighboring lot. Four of Carol Clark’s dogs recently died, possibly from eating decomposed sheep that were improperly buried.

Ostriches hounded by pair of dogs (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The dogs, bred to be herders, chased four ostriches off the property Sunday afternoon.

Brutal killings of dogs under investigation (Times-Reporter)
Tuscarawas County Humane Officer Lesli Humphries has turned the investigation into the brutal killings of two dogs at a New Philadelphia rescue shelter late last week back over to Tuscarawas County sheriff deputies.