NEW TODAY: Jazz sell hope was well as hot dogs (The Salt Lake Tribune)
After spending much of this month trying to remind everyone that the NBA draft is overvalued and overhyped, in defense of their poor execution lately in the middle of the first round, the Jazz went ahead Wednesday night and staged another party anyway. They gave away hot dogs and drinks, brought in the Jazz Dancers to entertain the Delta Center crowd briefly and hawked season tickets,

Woman Charged In Neglect Of Mother, 21 Dogs, 3 Birds (The Tampa Tribune)
BRANDON - When Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies knocked on a Dover woman’s door Tuesday to investigate a claim of elderly abuse, they found not only her ailing 86-year-old mother but also 21 dogs and three birds living in filth, officials said.

Custody battle looms over New Orleans dogs (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Two dogs that survived Hurricane Katrina are at the centre of a custody battle between their old owners in New Orleans and their new ones in Florida.

Mad dogs, Englishman intrude on Wimbledon Mad dogs, Englishman intrude (Inside Bay Area)
WIMBLEDON, England Another normal mad dogs and Englishmen afternoon at Wimbledon, a female player wearing attire that made her look like a mixture of a displaced person and a 1980s NBA center

Custody battle looms over New Orleans dogs (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Two dogs that survived Hurricane Katrina are at the center of a custody battle between their old owners in New Orleans and their new ones in Florida.

Animal Care Seizes 19 Dogs From North Side Home (KSAT ClickOnSA.com via Yahoo! News)
Animal Care investigators seized 19 dogs Wednesday from a North Side home where authorities had confiscated pets nine months earlier.

This college course is for the dogs (The Trenton Times)
I’ve just spent a week with my niece, Nathalie, and discovered that she is crazy about dogs. So crazy that she goes to college with one. While her teachers are filling her head with formulas and facts for her future career, she’s filling Jester’s head with “good manners” for his future career.

Adopted cats, dogs must be sterilized (The Huntsville Times)
Q. I understand that Alabama recently passed a law regarding the spaying and neutering of newly adopted pets. Does this law apply to cats as well as dogs, or only to cats as the recently passed Rhode Island legislation?