Spokane district halts use of dogs for drug searches (Seattle Times)
Threatened with a lawsuit, a suburban Spokane school district has agreed to stop using dogs for random drug searches in its middle and high…

Brit boy to probe dogs’ barks (Hindustan Times)
A British postgraduate student of psychology is planning to record the barks and growls of hundreds of dogs as part of a project into how canines communicate.

Wayne’s world goes to the dogs (The Age)
Former Tiger champion Wayne Campbell wasn’t watching his old side tackle the Dogs in the season opener on Friday night. He was across the world walking them. -

Preston High Principal: Staff Better at Keeping Drugs Out: Police Won’t Disclose What Dogs Found During School Search (RedNova)
By Kathy Plum, The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. Apr. 1–KINGWOOD — Preston High’s principal said the results of a recent search by drug dogs is further proof school employees are doing a better job of keeping drugs out of the high school.

Lawsuit threat ends use of dogs for random school searches (Casper Star-Tribune)
NINE MILE FALLS, Wash. (AP) — The threat of a lawsuit has ended the use of dogs for random drug searches in the middle and high schools of this town northwest of Spokane, officials said.

Dogs devour patient (Central Chronicle)
Sagar, April 1 In a very tragic incident, a patient at the district hospital here was killed by the stray dogs. The disabled and orphan patient was admitted in the Lanka ward whom the dogs in the hospital premises killed after attacking on him.

Many family dogs in Central New York are unlicensed (Syracuse.com)
Are all Central New York dogs licensed? If you’re looking for laughs, pose that question to town clerks and dog control officers. know they had to have their dogs licensed,” said Kim Muehlenbein, dog control officer in the Madison County towns of Sullivan and Lenox.

Cops kill rogue pit bulls; dogs attacked six people (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Six people suffered scratches, bruises and wounds Friday afternoon when a pair of pit bulls running loose at Stansbury Park Golf Course in Tooele County attacked them. About 3:30 p.m., the pit bulls got out of their yard on the north end of Stansbury Park and headed south, said Tooele County sheriff’s Sgt. Brad Patch. The dogs ran down the fairways and went into neighborhoods next to the

Taking a walk for the dogs (Bowling Green Daily News)
Audrey Nealy, 2, of Bowling Green relaxes Saturday in the shade of an umbrella with her aunt s dogs before the Bowling Green-Warren County Humane Society s seventh annual 5K fundraising walk.