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
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