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Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Vest-a-dog saves dogs' lives Rhode Island Kim Wyman and 26 fellow Citizens Police Academy classmates raised $1,200 to buy a custom-fitted Levlar vest for a police dog, Keaura, the Police department's big tan-and-black German shepherd patrol dog...
Stray dog's secret past and bright future When Viola Shipman found a stray dog covered in ticks and dirt, she took it in, cleaned it up and tried to find its owner...

Drug dog with millions in busts dies Iowa "Rio, the Des Moines Police Department's "$2 million drug dog", died Tuesday. Sgt. David Brown of the vice and narcotics section said, 'I've had a lot of tough assignments in the past but I've never had to put one of my subordinates to sleep before.'..."

Have you seen Fluffy? The new book, "Lost and Pet Posters from Around the World," has reviewer Ken Foster purring: "What does it say about the state of current literature -- or perhaps my current emotional state -- that the most compelling new book I've read this year is a collection of lost-pet fliers?"

"One of the most disturbing examples in the book is a simple, text-only flier that reads like something out of a David Lynch film:"

LOST BLACK LAB
No collar, No legs,
NEEDS Medicine!!!
Ask for Unca Tom Jennings                                Salon.com

Barking dad lands in jail ... "The dad tried to distract his quarreling kids by pretending he was a dog but his barking woke up the neighbors. His crime? "the defendant had barked in a public place in the middle of the night." How loud can a man bark anyway?..." [from ... Aberrant News]
'Dog' Man's Suicide and Troubled Life By the end of his life, Theodore LaCroix had alienated almost everyone in his neighborhood but his 22 dogs and even they were seized by Animal Control and held in a shelter as proof of animal cruelty... [from zwire.com]

Man wanted to be buried in backyard next to dog Florida "All Rick Georges wanted was to be buried next to his dog Cefus in the backyard of the family's DeSoto County home..." Neighbors are petitioning against it, citing the precedent of human internment in a suburb.

A tribute to a dog's final resting place:  "Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of Botswain, a Dog..." -- John Cam Hobhouse