Dogs celebrate sweet milestone (The Star-Ledger)
REACHING 16 IS a significant milestone in dogdom, so why not celebrate the occasion? Jeff Winton and Jim Modica did just that for their prize-winning whippets, Ollie and Petie, inviting friends to bring their own dogs to a big bash at Jim’s pet supply store in burgeoning downtown Asbury Park.

Dogs trained to warn of an imminent epileptic fit (Guardian Unlimited)
Dogs that bark to warn epileptics about an oncoming seizure and help them when they have a fit could soon be available in Britain.

Dogs and their owners have their day at park festival (Tennessean)
Rich Vernon came to Nashville Saturday to buy supplies for the Boy Scout troop he volunteers with nothing more. By happenstance, he ended up at the Nashville Dog Day Festival. Why not stop, he thought? He just so happened to have a half-ton of dogs in the back of his pickup truck.

For the Dogs (The Signal)
Hundreds turned out for the sixth annual Bow-Wows and Meows Pet Fair at William S. Hart Park on Sunday afternoon, but it may have been best enjoyed by the dogs - all of whom could try on outfits, sniff out new friends and enjoy a world-famous dog stunt show.

Q-C group hopes to find parents’ for abandoned and abused dogs (Quad-City Times)
Dogs of all shapes and sizes mingled in the Klemme Klassic Kar parking lot Saturday, joining their owners at a fundraiser for K9 Kindness Rescue Inc.

Pedigree dogs most likely to be dumped (Times Online)
PEDIGREE dogs are being abandoned in record numbers as a fall in the price of puppies makes them more affordable….

Fines cut profits for NYC street vendors (USA Today)
Street vendors, hawking everything from hot dogs to handbags and fresh vegetables are emblematic of New York City’s streetscape. But advocates say today’s vendors barely survive, hindered by confusing regulations, arbitrary enforcement and heavy fines that keep most in poverty.