Dog trainer educates owners FL Mike Miller, owner of Celebrity Dog Training, has more business than he can handle and his services are not inexpensive. “Everybody needs to be educated about their dog. The number one reason for euthanasia is behavioral problems.” Dog owners with strong-minded breeds must train their dogs, he insists... [newspress.com]

Court date for blind man accused of killing guide dog PA "A blind Lansdale man accused of kicking his guide dog to death in February has pleaded not guilty and is headed to court in Montgomery County on Wednesday." Police allege they responded to his home and found him with a mortally wounded dog (ruptured spleen, fractured eye socket). Both man and dog were covered in blood... [freepublic.com] 

Dogs' deaths remain mystery OH When five German Shepards died enroute from Atlanta to Dayton, Ohio on a Delta Flight in April, an investigation began. Pathologists were unable to determine the exact cause of their demise. One investigator thinks extreme heat may have been a factor... [Dayton Daily News]

'Forgotten Pets' vs Animal Control: a catfight defused  NJ A year ago, the tensions between a volunteer animal rescue agency and Animal Control were so high that it took regular Council meetings and suspension of an allegedly corrupt officer to defuse it. "When you're dealing in an environment where animals' lives are basically at stake, it can become a volatile situation, and all you need is a breakdown of communication and everything can explode..." (Daily Record)

Dog breath: a stinky market It's a dog's world and a really stinky one when it comes to doggy breath. Dogs require dental care, just like humans and like humans, 'drop-dead' breath can signal serious disease. The market for doggy dental care has expanded far beyond dental chews and dog bones. Speaking of bones, in "Should your dog get that bone", Dog News reported on the effects of bones on our dog [a one-dog investigation]. For more information on dental care, check out: www.petdental.com. [The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]

If you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra That's the motto of Word Forge, a blog by Marty Klein, who has accumulated a gaggle of eclectic links to web sites he deems worthy of note. In his own words: "I am - Marty Klein, live in western MassachusettsA, 49er, formerly blacksmith, presently paper-shuffling environmental bureaucrat." Dog News doesn't know how he found us, (we presume a fork in the road), but he does have doggy tracks running across his pages...
 Like us, he also links to Arts & Letters Daily, a multi-authored weblog of literary excellence.

 'Winged Vampire': kiss of death to dogs Texas Some inch-long assassin bugs (not all), termed by experts as "winged vampires," pass on Chagas disease: a disease that kills people and dogs in South America. Luckily, The bug that has reached the southwestern US is different: it rarely bites humans but it definitely is killing dogs... (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)

Animal shelter: they shoot dogs, don't they? Kentucky From the video footage reportedly filmed shot at the Henry Animal Shelter, it looks like they do. "Shooting is condemned by the American Veterinary Medical Association as a dangerous and unreliable method of killing and is considered totally unacceptable for shelters." ... (Peta.org)