Dog Attack Website

06 May 08

Malcolm Riley is a dog owner on a mission. His beloved German shepherd Ky was viciously bitten by another dog when they were on a walk in Hartlepool.

Mr. Riley, a 37-year old internet expert, reported that “An English bull terrier ran straight for us and was biting at Ky’s neck and limbs. I tried to get it off but there was no stopping it.” He managed to stop it from biting Ky’s neck, but then the bull terrier “ripped into the right front leg instead and I think the whole neighbourhood heard the cries.”
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Lulu’s Amazing Rescue

01 May 08

Poor Lulu — a puppy with bad and good luck in equal measures. Little Lulu, a Springer spaniel puppy, had a bit of bad luck when a two-storey building collapsed on top of her. Woof!

Trapped under the rubble she survived by drinking melting snow and eating scraps of food. Eight days later, and from beneath tonnes of concrete and rubble, rescuers heard her yelping. A fire official said that “after 45 minutes of frantic digging, we found ehr laying in a crawl space under 15 feet of rubble.”
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The Snuff of Nightmares

25 Apr 08

It seems the snuff of nightmares - genetically cloned working dogs! They can’t be serious, can they? Cloning dogs to sniff drugs and explosives?

Makes me worry that it reduces the relationship of two-leggeds and four-leggeds to pure function. The dog as a biological machine. Yuck. The thought postively gets my ruff up! Gggrrrrr…

If you think I’m pulling your paws, I must sadly assure you I’m not. Unfortunately. From the country of the world’s first cloned dog — you remember Snuppy, the handsome Afghan? — it was announced that the South Korean Customs Service have successfully cloned seven Labrador retrievers. They plan to put duplicated dogs on patrol as sniffer dogs.
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Street Dogs Save Baby Girl’s Life

22 Apr 08

A baby girl was saved in India by stray street dogs after her mother abandoned her in a mound of mud, according to officials in Patna, India.

In a report by Reuters it is said that hundreds of villagers have flocked to the remote Indian village of Bihar to see the newborn girl who was saved by three street dogs.

“The dogs removed the soil around and began to bark and the baby started crying which drew attention of the local villagers,” Ram Narayan Sahani, a senior government official, said on Tuesday from Bihar’s Samastipur district.
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Get Thee to the Goodwoof Dog Walk!

11 Apr 08

The world-famous Battersea Dogs & Cats Home is hoping to raise money for its good-dog works by hosting a ‘Goodwoof Sponsored Dog Walk’ to take place in the private grounds of the Goodwood Estate, near Chichester, West Sussex. Awoof!

The walk — which can be 5km or 10km — will start and finish at The Kennels, Goodwood’s Private Members Club on April 20 from 10am until 4pm. (If you recall, the Kennels were the first heated Kennels of their kind).
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Doggy-style social networking

06 Apr 08

The city of Framingham, Massachussets USA, has now got it’s own local doggy social networking site.

A local woman, Bryna Davidow has lately launched a website on the internet entirely dedicated to local dog services. For a small fee other local dog services — from walkers to washers — can advertise their specialities.
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RSPCA Summer Conference

05 Apr 08

Dogs dogs dogs will be the hot topic for discussion at the RSPCA’s summer conference. The one-day summer conference to take place in London on June 3rd will examine the challenges of managing dogs within communities, including topics such as dangerous dogs, stray dogs, ownership and rehoming.

Speakers will include North Wales Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom and Neil Davies, the Head of the Dog Unit for Merseyside Police, which brought in a ‘pitbull amnesty’ following the death of Ellie Lawrenson in 2007.
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Change in Law leaves Stray Dogs out in the Cold

04 Apr 08

A new UK law could leave stray dogs out in the cold, on the streets, animal charities have today warned.

From Sunday, councils will have sole responsibility for dealing with stray dogs 24 hours a day. Currently, they share responsibility with the police.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said local authorities will be “expected to provide the highest possible level of service possible according to local circumstances”.

But charities such as the Dogs Trust and the RSPCA are concerned that lack of money and the “vague wording” in guidance on the law could leave people who find stray dogs at evenings and weekends without anywhere to go.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police sponsor dog film

18 Mar 08

The Leader Post of Regina (Canada) reported on 17 March 2008 that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have launched a special historical documentary on the relationship between the RCMP and dogs from the 1930s onwards. The educational video entitled ‘More Than Just An Officer’s Best Friend’ tells the history of dogs in the employ of the RCMP. Woof!

Cpl. Chris Lohnes, currently the RCMP dog handler stationed in the Yorkton Rural Detachment, had the germ of an idea while stationed in Newfoundland. Since then seven years have passed, but the project has finally been finished — to everyone’s superwoof satisfaction.
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Man asks for his Dog to be rescued first

13 Mar 08

When a man and his dog capsized during a fishing trip and fell into icy waters, the man — Randy Earl — asked his rescuers to save his dog Lacy, a black spaniel mix, first. Woof!

“When the boat flipped over, I put the dog on top of the boat so it would be safe,” Earl told The Dominion Post of Morgantown (USA). While waiting for rescue, the 53-year-old Earl clung to the 12-foot boat’s hull.
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Dogs soon to get bespoke Sat Nav collars

11 Mar 08

Soon, the companions of four-leggeds will be able to track the location of their missing pooches — all thanks to a high-tech dog collar based on sat-nav technology.

The lockable collar, which was previewed on the first day of the Crufts Show, is made of anti-cut material to thwart thieves and can trace an animal even if it inside a building.

The device works by sending texts to the owner’s mobile telephone if the dog crosses a fixed boundary.
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Houndish Mass in Nicaragua

10 Mar 08

Hoards of hounds, many of them dressed up in a variety of costumes, were taken to celebrate mass in Masaya, Nicaragua yesterday. The hounds’ mass is an annual ritual where two-leggeds bring their four-leggeds to church to pray for good health and happiness. Awoof!

A long queue of Catholics waited patiently for their turn to pass by an image of saint san Lazaro in a tiny church in this town 20 miles to the south of the Nicaragua capital, Managua. The town’s priest always conducts a special canine mass - bless him!
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SuperWoof Travelodge!

05 Mar 08

Sophie Borland of the Telegraph reported today that dogs travelling to Crufts and staying at Travelodges will be given their own king sized beds. Awooof!

Crufts, the world’s largest dog show — confirmed by Guinness World Record holder status! - opens in Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre on Thursday. Thousands upon thousands of two- and four-leggeds will be making their way to Birmingham over the next couple of days.

For those who wish to stay close to the centre for the duration of the four-day event, Travelodge has kindly announced that it will offer all dogs attending Crufts with king sized peds, complete with mattreseses (what bed isn’t, but anyway..), pillow and duvet, in addition to the less luxurious standard dog baskets. Wonderfully woofy news!
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As strange as fiction

25 Feb 08

This is surely a case of life imitating art (in a fashion). Just as in a novel by Alexander McCall Smith, where Angus Lordie’s beloved hound Cyril is wrongly accused and imprisoned (facing ‘destruction’) when he was wrongly accused of being an aggressive dog, a woman in Carlisle was recently shocked to recieve letters from a Carlisle housing association accusing her dogs of bad behaviour. She’s shocked - mainly because her beloved dogs are dead! She very sadly had to put her two dogs “down” last year. Awoooo!

Imagine! Accusing dead dogs of bad behaviour! If only these kind of busy-bodies would check their facts first. The woman’s son is furious as his mother is still grieving the loss of her beloved pooches, and has memorial urns with their ashes in her house.
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Hagen the Doxie survives Arkansas Tornado

23 Feb 08

Hagen, an intrepid little doxie, is thought to have hidden in a rolled up carpet in order to survive a tornodo that hit Arkansas earlier this month.

Many dogs were lost in the massive tornado which sent outdoor dog houses flying across lawns and fields.

Happily a local ‘lost-and-found’ website on the internet was instrumental to getting animals reconnected with their two-leggeds quickly.
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Dog Cloning Goes Commercial

21 Feb 08

If you’re a regular reader of these Newshound pages, you’ll know that two-leggeds have for a number of years had success in cloning canines – take Bono and Snuppy as the model examples. But now dog cloning is going commercial. A California dog-lover will pay $150,000 US dollars to have her dead pit bull cloned.

Bernann McKunney had a special connection to her dog Booger, who once fought off another dog to save her life. When Booger died, the California woman froze part of its ear in hopes of replicating it. Now she is prepared to pay huge sums to have a team of scientists clone the dog.
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Beagle Wins Westminster Honours

18 Feb 08

For the first time in 132 years, a beagle has won Best in Show at the prestigious American Westminster Kennel Club (NY) dog show held annually at Madison Square Garden.

Uno, the sassy beagle, fought off competition from 2,600 dogs, including an elegant Sealyham terrier, a standard poodle, a Weimeraner, an Atika, a toy poodle and an Australian sheep dog.
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Volvo Promotes Dog-Safe cars at Chicago Auto Show 2008

10 Feb 08

Volvo surprised visitors of the Chicago 2008 Autoshow by hosting a seminar about buckling up your dogs.

Which will make the people at BarkBuckleUp.com happy that volvo cars allow for dogs to be safely secured so that, in the event of an accident, dogs aren’t killed or injured (or wander onto the street causing other accidents).

SuperWoof to Volvo!

Archie, a road-trip loving dog