Loose dogs under watch (Northwest Herald)
McHenry County residents are on heightened alert about dogs roaming their neighborhoods. The connection between loose-animal complaints that doubled over the year before has one obvious link the pit-bull maulings near Cary.

Dogs sniffing out drugs in schools (ABC via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News)
Dogs have been used to sniff out drugs in Victorian schools.

Dogs seized in animal cruelty case still at shelters 43 days later (News 10 Now)
43 days ago, these pictures were taken of dogs that were seized in an animal cruelty case. Since then, six of the dogs have been staying at the Jefferson County SPCA, while the other seven are at the county dog pound.

Drug sniffer dogs working in Gippsland schools (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
A company specialising in drug sniffing dogs is operating in Gippsland schools. The dogs are trained to detect illegal drugs and explosive devices and are used for commercial surveillance work.

Officials backtrack on deer-hunting dogs (Kinston Free Press)
Under fire from hunters, three Lenoir County commissioners who voted less than a month ago to tighten restrictions on the use of dogs in deer hunting backtracked Wednesday and asked that the new regulations be amended.

Dogs’ owner pleads guilty (Northwest Herald)
WOODSTOCK Scott Sword called the Nov. 5 pit bull attacks that injured six people in Cary “the fight of our lives” Wednesday, after pleading guilty to allowing his dogs to run free and the drug charges that stemmed from the investigation.

Dogs search farm; cistern drained (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Lexington police used cadaver dogs and drained an underground cistern yesterday as they searched a farm in rural Fayette County on Athens-Boonesboro Road.

Drug sniffer dogs working in Gippsland schools (ABC via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News)
A company specialising in drug sniffing dogs is operating in Gippsland schools.

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.

IN OTHER WORDS: Anything for the dogs (Times and Democrat)
To those of us who love our dogs as much as any other family member, nothing we do for them seems too extreme. Years ago, I used to laugh at folks who treated their dogs like people. But since getting Casey five years ago, I m totally smitten.