Santa Rosa toughens laws on certain dogs (Marin Independent Journal)
Santa Rosa’s City Council has toughened its ordinance about vicious and potentially dangerous dogs by requiring owners to post warning signs on their properties and making each dog wear a conspicuous brightly colored collar or vest.

Alberton has no solution to problem of dogs at large (Fort Frances Times)
FORT FRANCES Although there s a by-law within the Township of Alberton prohibiting dogs from running at large, council admitted at last Wednesday s regular meeting that it doesn t have a solution to the problem.

State drops 41 dogs at local shelter (Columbia Daily Tribune)
Northern Missouri breeder was too full. Forty-one new dogs, some purebred, are waiting for adoption at the Central Missouri Humane Society. The Columbia shelter received the dogs yesterday after the state took possession from a commercial breeding facility in northern Missouri.

Dogs sniffing out criminals’ cash (BBC News)
Dogs are being trained to find cash hidden in TV sets and drainpipes in the battle against organised crime.

Dogs detect drug scent in locker search (The Trenton Times)
HAMILTON — Drug-sniffing dogs searched every locker at Not tingham High School last week, and although no drugs were found, the K-9 dogs picked up the scent of narcotics in five lockers, said a Mercer County assistant prosecutor.

Friendly racing satisfies dogs’ need for speed (The Oregonian)
BEAVERCREEK — The two slender dogs trot eagerly across the damp lawn toward the starting boxes. Scott Ekblad lifts the back door to one box and Galena, a black whippet with a white streak on her chest, slips right in without a bit of coaxing. Stormy, a fawn-colored dog, dives into a box next door.

Variety of dogs now up for adoption at shelter (Columbian Missourian)
New arrivals at Yappy Hour sale include 41 canines from breeder. The Central Missouri Humane Society took in 41 dogs Tuesday after they were taken from a commercial breeding facility near Kirksville by the Missouri Department of Agriculture.

Rabid skunk prompts euthanasia of two dogs (The Herald-Sun)
A family had to have its dogs euthanized after one of them came in contact with a skunk that was later determined to have rabies in northwestern Orange County, according to county officials.

3 Kudzu-Eating Goats Fall Victim To Dogs (The Chattanoogan)
Two “kudzu eating” goats are dead and one seriously injured after neighborhood dogs allegedly dug under an electric fence and attacked them Tuesday night on Missionary Ridge.

Meet DM police dogs, Ives and Glory, tomorrow (The Des Moines Register)
Des Moines police will introduce their new airport bomb dogs at a press conference tomorrow.