New panel will help draft rules for dogs (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Dog enthusiasts will sit on an advisory panel to help the Louisville Metro Council come up with a plan for controlling dangerous dogs. Councilwoman Cheri Bryant Hamilton, the lead sponsor on a proposed dangerous-dog ordinance, said she plans to announce creation of the panel today and will probably include about a half-dozen people on it.

Uninvited massages best gone to the dogs (Medina-Gazette)
o the early evening talk in The Gazette newsroom had turned to the topic of pet massage as it often does when a coworker mentioned his wife had been taking their dogs to pet massage classes.

Dogs And Cows for Electricity And Petrol (AllAfrica.com)
UMEME going to the dogs might not seem such a bad idea. It could be the best thing ever. As the city of San Francisco, US is trying to show.

Owner Saves Dogs From Coyote Attack (CBS 4 Boston)
Two dogs are safe in Peabody after the quick thinking of their owner during a coyote attack.

Pet lovers wild about designer dogs (Miami Herald)
It’s a sunny afternoon at Chia’s Pet Kingdom, an apt name for the rural Texas home of a couple who own 20 dogs. Little shorkie dogs scamper about the living room of the house that is their kingdom. Two chiweenie puppies are curled up on the kingdom’s leather sofa.

Dogs face another familiar opponent: No. 6 Palo Duro 02-27-2006 (Plainview Daily Herald)
As far-reaching as Region I may be, the Plainview Bulldogs always seem to meet up with familiar faces during the playoffs. Last week, the Dogs (22-12) came back from an early deficit to beat El Paso Chapin, 79-67, in the Class 4A area round at Odessa College.

Researchers say Dr. Dogs sniff out cancer (Orlando Sentinel)
In Africa, giant rats have been trained to sniff out tuberculosis in humans and land mines in fields. In England, dogs have identified bladder cancer. In Georgia, wasps have detected bombs.

Seized dogs raise questions about woman’s story of puppy’s death (Rocky Mountain News)
2:26 p.m. The adult dogs taken from the home of an Edgewater woman are the parents of a Pekinese puppy that died of possible animal abuse, police said today.

Dogs, cats get new homes, thanks to first adopt-a-thon (Lincoln Courier)
Five dogs and three cats found new homes Saturday in an adopt-a-thon sponsored jointly by For Pets’ Sake volunteers and Logan County Animal Control officials.

Picking a pooch: Dogs, people don t always match (Rapid City Journal)
Terry Besler sees it all the time: dogs and owners who just don t match up. A lot of times, people come to my classes because they want to give the dog one last chance, she said.