Lady Purple’Dogs Dealing With Illness, Injuries (The Morning News)
FAYETTEVILLE — Absolutely nothing has been easy for the Fayetteville Lady Purple’Dogs this season.

Who would leave their dogs outside in this weather? (Daily Southtown)
Tinley Park animal control officer Karen Schutt has been busy. She’s responded to numerous calls from residents complaining their neighbors have left dogs outside for extended periods of time in single-digit temperatures.

Kupets’ 10 lifts Gym Dogs to top score in nation (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Athens It doesn’t get much better than this for the Georgia Gym Dogs. On Saturday they posted the nation’s highest gymnastics score of the season, hitting the coveted 198-point mark for the first time since 2004. Sophomore Courtney Kupets scored her first perfect 10, the program’s first in three years. Oh, yes, the Gym Dogs crushed archrival Alabama. “It came down to how bad we wanted it …

Steel City dogs may sport blue collars (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Pennsylvania will be well-represented Monday when 2,500 impeccably groomed dogs strut across TV screens during the 131st Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

Dogs Net an Owner ; Pets AND THEIR People (RedNova)
A LONELY heart s website for dogs is helping find homes for hundreds of strays. Dogsblog.com has teamed up with dozens of animal charities to post profiles of abandoned pets that wouldbe owners can browse.

Owners of dangerous dogs offered amnesty (The Washington Times)
Police in the Liverpool area in England are offering amnesty for owners of dangerous dogs, giving them a chance to hand the animals over without penalty.

Dangerous dogs used as weapons (BBC News)
Police warn of a growing street culture of owning dangerous dogs and their increasing use as weapons in crime.

Dogs in Phoenix to train for disasters (ABC 15 Phoenix)
The barking of dogs rang out in the piles of rubble so large they seemed like mountains. “Did you find him, boy? Get him out of there,” screamed a search specialist handler as he scrambled over large cement blocks to the spot where his German shepherd was fixated, barking repeatedly.