Ice Dogs continue late season struggles (Long Beach Press-Telegram)
Long Beach falls eight points out of last playoff spot. LONG BEACH - The Bakersfield Condors were ripe for the picking Friday night, but the Ice Dogs were unable to harvest the much-needed victory.

Idaho’s First AKC Agility Competition Draws Some Top Dogs (FOX 12 Idaho)
Canyon County, Idaho– A look at some of the fastest, most agile dogs in the Northwest. They’re competing at the Canyon County Fairgrounds in Idaho’s first AKC Agility Competition of the year.

MPAA Trots Out Bootleg-Sniffing Wonder Dogs For Another Publicity Tour (Addict 3D)
Just one problem with the otherwise brilliant plan: bootleg DVDs smell exactly the same as legit ones. Also, just having two of the dogs wouldn’t seem to make much impact on such a geographically spread-out issue.

Henderson Animal Official Wants New Regulations On “Large” Dogs (News 25 Evansville)
HENDERSON, KY - If you own a large dog in Henderson, take note: NEWS 25 has learned animal officials want to form a committee that could eventually propose radical changes in how they deal with big dogs.

How to keep the garden from going to the dogs (Austin American-Statesman)
Over the years, our adopted Samoyeds and Siberian huskies have consistently proved themselves to be yard demolition teams. Pooches seem instinctively to like the garden best when it is “going to the dogs.”

Quarantine on dogs lifted; effect on racing unclear (The Charleston Gazette)
A West Virginia greyhound breeder who was prohibited from running his dogs at racetracks in Nitro and Wheeling has had a quarantine on his dogs lifted.

Child mauled by dogs in Wapato (Yakima Herald-Republic)
A 4-year-old Wapato girl remained hospitalized Friday after being badly mauled by dogs in an alley behind her house the day before.