Like the pet? Vote for his match: doggy politicians "In a  ... bit of pop culture insight into Michigan's gubernatorial and U.S. Senate wannabes, the Michigan Humane Society is sponsoring a contest to match the state's leading political candidates with their pets."  A bit of trivia: ... "the naughtiest pet was Teddy Roosevelt's bull terrier Pete, who tore the pants off the French ambassador during a goodwill visit." Pop culture indeed! It's a time honored tradition that politicians (more often than their dogs) will  get into deep doo doo, from time to time...  [Detroit Free Press]

A dog's life: when should it end? CA "The nightmare of his illness, although only weeks long, was an eternity..." One man personal experience of grappling with the ethics of keeping a dog alive when it's very ill... [San Francisco Examiner]

Dog chews up airplane; flying ban on pit bulls, Dobermans and Rottweilers FL "A 68-pound pit bull traveling inside an American Airlines' cargo hold last month bit through thick electrical cables [and created a nasty hole in the cargo's fiberglass paneling]; on descent, the pilots found that the Boeing 757's backup radio and data transmission equipment were not working." The airplane's required repairs and the resulting lost revenue to the airlines tallied in the millions of dollars.  American Airlines immediately banned  pit bulls, Rottweilers and Doberman pinschers and any dog exhibiting aggression from plane flights... [Miami Herald]

Hero dog saves owner, fights off grizzly bear  "Bears have bluffed Don Mobley before. Usually he stands his ground. But when a female grizzly growled and charged him ... instinct and experience told him one thing: run..."  Mobley's dog, Shadow, intercepted the bear, fought it and forced it to flee... [Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News]

Protecting Children from Dog Bites Canada The National Companion Animal Coalition launched a website to help protect children from dog bites... go to Dogs and Kids [Canadian Safety Council]

Canton Chows gave us the "Pick of the Litter Award" for a great Pet Site. Canton Chows features its beautiful Chows (we  love our Chow Chow: he's the most agreeable, obedient dog we've ever known). Canton Chows is listed in the "Top 100 Chow Sites" and features all their "chowdren of the past and present" along with beautiful photographs... 

Law Guru adds Dog News  The Law Guru website has added Dog News: weird, inspiring dog tales to its impressive library of legal resources; they added us to their Miscellaneous/NonLegal Resources (heh, heh). (Law Guru: Dog News is a good resource for researching canine issues in the news.) You'll find a plethora of legal resources in the thousands, all neatly organized by category. "You can search previously posted questions and answers or ask a free question. There are over 35,000 questions and answers in our database and over 2,000 law firms in over 35 countries in our BBS network. Attorneys can join the attorney network for free..."  Law Guru is a valued resource for readers to ask their legal questions about dog issues.... for free!  Arf!

Vicious Dogs Released From Pound OH Two vicious dogs were mistakenly released from a dog pound after attacking two people in Lorain, [Ohio]. Local residents are upset and want to know what went wrong. In a classic blame game, Lorain's city dog warden blamed the county, saying he ordered the dogs not released, and the county blamed the warden, saying he went on vacation that week. Reportedly, the dog's owner is already raising replacement dogs and training them: He shakes them with their faces together; "once they start growling, he sets them down and lets them attack each other." [Cleveland - NewsNet5 via Yahoo News.com]

Google translated RSS feeds
Question: Is there a way to subscribe to an automatically translated Google RSS feed?

Answer: Yes...  Google translated RSS feeds This morning, I subscribed to "Shock Wave Rider" in Google translated English. Here's how I did it: go to your subscription page in Radio: Paste in the following url: Shock Wave Rider in English RSS Feed and hit <ENTER> to subscribe. If successful, you'll get the following message: "Congratulations: you have successfully subscribed to  Der schockwellenreiter rss feed. (I got that message! Wow, what if it works?) Now, I'll soon find out if it's automatically translated and not turned into a "crappy RSS Feed." A tip submitted by Dog News: weird, inspiring dog tales

To subscribe to a translated feed, first go to the site, figure out what language you need: EN to DE, DE to EN, etc. Then use Google to translate the page, like so:

http://216.239.35.120/translate_c?hl=en&;u=http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/

Then, find the RSS feed on that site's page and tell  Google to translate it. Now, paste that in your Radio subscription page. It would simple to create a translated subscription url on your site, so that readers can subscribe to your feed in Italian, English, German. (I love Google; Google is the God of web tools.): oh my goodness -- it worked! Proof: a bit of his feed:

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