'It was always in the middle of the night that Jean Butler would show up in the emergency room, her blood pressure spiking, her nose bleeding. Two or three times a week, the white-haired widow would be rushed to Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Judith Fisher suspected part of the problem was anxiety and loneliness. So she improvised an unusual treatment. She wrote a prescription for a dog...' [Philadelphia Daily News]

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You lucky dog: pooch saved from 40 feet fall by pedestrian When a dog fell from a windowsill 40 feet above, a pedestrian below snatched it from a certain death (or maiming)...

'I looked up and the dog was in midair,' said David Quinton, the puppy savior, who injured his knee in the process. 'So I held my arms out, palms up, and I caught her.' ...Without hesitation, Quinton dramatically stretched out his arms, lunged toward the sky, and came down hard on his leg, but with the dog safely in his arms... [NY Post] (wouldn't you know, the dog was a SharPei.  SharPeis are the Houdinis of the dog world.) 

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• Wallace and Gromit film clips UK From last year: Aardman Animations provides 10 one-minute movies featuring Wallace and his cantankerous pet dog Gromit:  Cracking Contraptions The film is downloadable and viewable online. [BBC News via Joi Ito ]
• The Dazzling Dachshund's joke [347.com Andy's world]
• Da Woofer (funny pic at Dan Parson's blog) His dog knows no stress... [Interminable Itch]
• Lexi, the dog (always funny... )
• Asparagirl finds a stray spaniel [Asparagirl lives here] (but did the dog get adopted at NYC's kill shelter?)
• Oliver, the dog from France, has his own blog and a new photo every day... [Textism via Walker's Signal Fade]
• Rovers that act like dogs Roll over, Robo Rover... scientists try and try to make their robots more dog-like [GoMemphis:Business via Robots.net]

(Found most of these via Roogle (that google rss searchy thing by Fuzzy Net. Hey, this guy is adding features all the time.)

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Danny, the Pekinese, earns top dog at Cruft's UK [Yahoo News] (video at site)

 Related: The stud's Peke rate Cruft's Champ, Danny the Pekinese, commands a £500-per-time stud. [The Daily record]
A breed apart: inside Cruft's 'Justine Hankins investigates the origins of the strange world of dog breeding...'  [The Guardian]

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