Owners asked to keep dogs out of way of meter readers (Colorado Springs Gazette)
Unfriendly dogs have always been the bane of meter readers as they hurry from yard to yard to record gas, water and electric usage. This year has been worse than usual, with 21 dog attacks on Colorado Springs Utilities meter readers, three more than in all of 2005.

Study: Type Of Cancer In Dogs Is Contagious (Free Internet Press)
Scientists in England have gathered definitive evidence that a kind of cancer in dogs is contagious - a peculiar exception to the age-old medical wisdom that you can’t “catch” cancer. Although no human cancer is known to spread naturally from person to person, the finding of such a disease in dogs - and emerging evidence that a different contagious cancer is spreading among marsupials in Tasmania

Contagious Cancer In Dogs Confirmed; Origins Traced To Wolves Centuries Ago (Science Daily)
The source of a cancer that affects dogs around the world has been traced by scientists and vets at UCL (University College London) to a single wolf or dog, which probably lived in China or Siberia more than 250 years ago. In canine transmissible venereal tumour (CTVT), the cells of the tumour itself are transmitted between dogs during sex. No equivalent form of contagious cancer exists in

Dogs will get their day at park (Arkcity.net)
Calling all dogs to come have a soggy good time. For the first time, Paris Park Pool will be going to the dogs as it joins the Arkansas City Recreation Commission for a “pooch plunge” from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 29.

Fur flies over rabies protection order to cull dogs (The Star Online)
AFTER two local governments ordered mass killings of dogs following a rabies outbreak, a heated debate has emerged about that method of rabies control.

Nuisance dogs ‘cost council hundreds’ (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The Launceston City Council is spending hundreds of dollars keeping nuisance dogs and it wants the Local Government Association (LGA) to intervene. Aldermen will consider at Monday’s meeting whether to seek LGA support to tighten Tasmania’s Dog Control Act.

Sea Dogs sink Aeros (Akron Beacon Journal)
with big fourth inning Sea Dogs 9, Aeros 7 — The Portland Sea Dogs broke open a close game with six runs in the fourth inning to defeat the Aeros on Friday night in Portland, Maine.

Photos of dogs unlawfully used in ad (UPI)
NEW YORK, Aug. 11 (UPI) — A New York woman is suing an ad company after discovering pictures of her and her now-deceased dogs in an ad for a pet cremation service.

Nuisance dogs ‘cost council hundreds’ (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
The Launceston City Council is spending hundreds of dollars keeping nuisance dogs and it wants the Local Government Association (LGA) to intervene.

Some Dogs Carry ‘Contagious’ Cancer (MedicineNet.com)
Title: Some Dogs Carry ‘Contagious’ Cancer Category: Health News Created: 8/11/2006 1:57:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 8/11/2006 1:56:49 AM