KIDS SAW DOGS SHOT (Daily Mirror)
HORRIFIED children saw their beloved dalmatians shot at a beauty spot. Sebastian Nicholls, 12, had let the dogs off their leads for a runaround. But when he and brothers Todd and Toby, seven and six, went to gather them they saw a man kill Bandit and seriously injure Dfor with a shotgun.

Leopard Cubs Rescued From Wild Dogs (NBC 17 Raleigh)
Two leopard cubs have been rescued from wild dogs in India.

Judge orders city to pay for shot dogs (The Des Moines Register)
A Fremont County magistrate has ordered Hamburg and its police chief to pay more than $3,500 to the owner of seven dogs shot by the chief in…

Street Dogs Prep New CD (antiMUSIC)
(punkbands) The Street Dogs have been in a rehearsal studio for the last few weeks working on material for the next release tentatively titled “Not without a purpose…not without a fight!”

Marc-Andre Gragnani scores shootout winner as Rocket edge Sea Dogs 3-2 (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) - Marc-Andre Gragnani scored a goal in the shootout and added another in regulation as the P.E.I. Rocket edged the Saint John Sea Dogs 3-2 in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action Monday.

Do dogs bark with a Cumbrian accent? (The News and Star)
It may sound barking mad, but researchers today claimed that dogs imitate their owners accents. A study found similarities between a dog s yap or growl and how their owners speak.

Dogs are the real stars in inspiring Antarctic adventure (San Jose Mercury News)
Following the success of last year’s “March of the Penguins,'’ and now “Eight Below'’ — an equally triumphal processional of dogs across the bottom of the world — Cinema Antarctica is suddenly sizzling hot!

Man who shot dogs deserves no sympathy (Star-Gazette)
I am responding to a letter by Steve Barnes (Star-Gazette, Jan. 27), in which he appears to be seeking sympathy for Kevin L. Pierce and everything that he is going through after being accused of shooting his neighbors’ dogs (”Man charged in deaths of two dogs”, Jan. 15).

Park master plan: Dealing with roads, trails and dogs (Oroville Mercury-Register)
Roads, trails, and dogs were big conversation points during the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission’s master management plan meeting on Monday.