Fire crew rescues pet dogs after night stuck on cliff (Liverpool Echo)
A PAIR of dogs found themselves at the centre of a riverside rescue drama yesterday after they escaped from their back garden and spent the night clinging to a cliff.

SCIENCE: Study: Like Pavlov’s dogs, roaches can learn food cue (The Charlotte Observer)
Life scientists at Japan’s Tohoku University have confirmed conditioned reflexes in cockroaches, just like Pavlov’s drooling dogs.

Dogs Influenced Eyes (Sci Fi Wire)
Aaron Stanford, who plays Doug in the upcoming remake of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes , told SCI FI Wire that he and director Alexandre Aja modeled his character on Dustin Hoffman’s hero in Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 Straw Dogs . “We had a conversation about that before the movie, and Alex said, …

NIGHT CAP: Dogs drink whatever for Mardi Gras (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
It was a little chilly, and yes, Fat Tuesday had passed and Lent was already under way. But that didn’t stop The Blue Dogs from making Saturday’s Mardi Gras Myrtle Beach at Broadway at the Beach a rocking and rollicking affair.

Is Dog Ordinance Forcing People To Get Rid of Dogs? (WTRF)
Wheeling’s new vicious dog ordinance will go into effect in just a matter of weeks, and that is keeping one local place busy. More than 10 of the dogs named in the ordinance have been dropped off at the county animal shelter in just the last few weeks.

Dicey Bet — Asking Old Dow Dogs to Do New Tricks: Chet Currier (Bloomberg.com)
March 10 (Bloomberg) — Is the famous old “Dogs of the Dow'’ investment strategy dead, or only sleeping? That’s the piquant question that was raised recently by the Turnaround Letter, a Boston-based advisory newsletter specializing in digging up bargains.