Dogs get their day — to dine out (Orlando Sentinel)
Bush signs a measure opening the door for pooches and owners to eat together on restaurant patios. The government went to the dogs Friday.

DOGS PLAYING WITH CATS? (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Dogs and Cats? Together? Sunday night only, the Fort Worth Cats will allow dog owners to take pooches to a game as a promotion to raise money for a nonprofit group that supports Fort Worth’s animal shelter. Rover can attend if his or her owner buys a $4 general admission ticket and makes a $2 donation to Cowtown Loves Animal Shelter Pets (CLASP). Call 817-226-CATS.

Hot dogs: Stories of unsavory ingredients belong to the old days (NorthJersey.com)
Oh, admit it. You love hot dogs. Grilled, steamed, boiled or roasted over a campfire, frankfurters have a furtive appeal for even the snootiest gourmets.

Deadly attack sharpens focus on dangerous dogs (Daytona Beach News-Journal)
OAK HILL — A five-foot high fence around Kim and Kathleen Laramie’s home once kept a wandering alligator out but it didn’t protect their little dog from two neighborhood dogs that tore through the wire.

MOTORCYCLE RUN: ‘Hawgs for Dogs’ sponsors (York Daily Record)
“Hawgs for Dogs” is sponsoring a motorcycle run today to benefit Guide Dogs of America, which provides guide dogs to the blind for free.

SPCA seizes sick dogs (Calgary Sun)
BUCK LAKE — The SPCA seized six dogs from an acreage yesterday after complaints a huge pack was living there in such squalid conditions they were eating the carcasses of other canines.

Kenyan boy mauled by dogs has surgery (AP via Yahoo! News)
Doctors completed more than 11 hours of surgery late Thursday in their effort to reconstruct the face of a 4-year-old Kenyan boy who was mauled by dogs after he was abandoned at birth on a trash heap.

2 dogs blamed in killing remain at home (Tennessean)
DECHERD, Tenn. Two dogs that were implicated this week in the killing of a Franklin County woman remained at their owner’s home yesterday.

Wolf pack kills two dogs, injures third (Casper Star-Tribune)
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A northern Idaho hound hunting guide says one of his dogs may have saved his life by jumping back into a fight with a wolf and giving him time to escape.