Kuwait ships food, aid, to Iraq Zoo while Coalition forces encourage poisoning of Iraq's stray dogs and cats 

'British commander coaxed four anxious local men ... to take control of their town of 40,000. In 45 minutes, the men breezed through a checklist ... They agreed to set a dinars-to-dollars exchange rate, get IDs for local fishermen, flip on the town's telephone exchange, find a landfill site, restore the supply of cooking gas, and use poison to cull the large number of stray cats and dogs... [USA Today] 

PETA asks military to stop encouraging animal poison in Iraq VA   [New Jersey Online] more news stories about the Iraq's zoo

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The scatological dump: a tale of a bluff, zip-lock doggy bags of poo, and an outraged community ...  'We're not dealing with your typical dog-owning deadbeat here. This is someone who goes to the trouble of picking up the poop his dog leaves behind and zip-locking it in a baggie.' ... [JS Online] Related: 101 Things you can do with dog poop

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Dog world howling even after prize Pekingese Danny cleared of face-lift  NY Only the dog world could top the Michael Jackson face-lift brouhaha... Imagine the lengths a rabid dog owner will go to in order to gain the coveted 'Best in Show' prize: mascara on a dog? silicone Neuticles (artificial testicles for dogs that have been neutered); braces, dental restoration and more:

'Some handlers put mascara or liner around a dog's eyes, others use markers to darken the nose. The practice of "chalking" a dog to enhance its color is not uncommon, either...' [CNEWS]

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Miracle dog back with her owners... get the hanky out... for a happy ending... Keia, a collie-Alsatian mix, wandered away from her home and  was hit by a train going 90 mph... .  [Edinburg Evening News]

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FOIA request for DNA study on dog foods contaning Pentobarbitol denied... Ann Martin, author of Food Pets Die For and Protect Your Pet responds to Dog News article Pentobarbitol found in 43 brands and product lines of dog food with the stunning news that her FOIA request for more information was denied :

"It is truly a frightening scenario that the FDA/CVM does not see fit to have this drug removed from the commercial food fed to pets. It is interesting to note that if this drug was found in human food it would be pulled from the shelves immediately.

Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I requested any and all information relating to the DNA study that the FDA/CVM conducted on these foods [43 brands and product lines of dog food]. After nearly a year of waiting my request was denied. I have now filed an appeal. What are they hiding?

Also, with regard to the pentobarbital. The AVMA Panel on Euthanasia, states, "In euthanasia of animals intended for human or animal food, chemical agents that result in tissue residues cannot be used, unless they are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Carbon dioxide is the only chemical currently used for euthanasia of food animals (primarily swine) that does not result in tissue reside." Regarding a query I sent to Stephen Sundlof, Director, FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, regarding this drug in pet food, he advised, in part, A euthanasia solution such as pentobarbital obviously cannot have a withdrawal time and its mechanism of action results in a tissue residue so it could not be used to euthanisia animals intended for human or animal food." 

Although the pet food industry is basically self-regulated it is the job of this agency to control any drugs which may be in the foods we are feeding our pet...". [Ann Martin]

(From Dog News: Heavy stuff: Back in November, after we read Your Pet's Dog Food Could Be Dangerous and  FDA study on pentobarbitol in dog food, we switched our dog to certified organic dog food, Bench & Field. After all, we've only invested closed to $10,000 in our dog [medical bills, etc]; why not give him the best. This isn't an endorsement for any other dog; we also know that chow chows generally have a short life span: 8 to 11 years, and he's past 6 years old already. It is a running joke with us that our dog is worth 10 times that of our 'good' car...)

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Dog-o-meter of war   Tracking the dog-war-under-the-collar syndrome... Has anyone noticed how often dog-aphorisms turn up in news stories about the Iraq war: increasingly, politicians, columnists, reporters and world leaders refer to dogs when discussing the Iraq war... The use of dog-aphorisms in sports is a given tradition ... The news headlines on the war abound with this curious phenomenon: 

• U.N. Inspectors Could Help Verify Iraq Weapons But Not As ‘dogs On A Leash'  “We're not dogs on a leash,” said chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix, who said it was key his teams remain independent.
• Iraq: the Dog That Didn't Bark? or Was It Muzzled?  Reuters
• The Just Cause of War - and It's Not Over Yet  Reuters 'While the American finger is now pointing at Syria, this dog ain't hunting overseas, even with allies.'
• Desperate Measures '... The people who live here are Shias, members of the Muslim sect that Saddam Hussein chose to weaken to make him appear stronger. ‘‘Saddam provided only enough food so we could survive to serve him,’’ said 60-year-old Fadhil Muhsin Al-Zurgani. ‘‘He [Saddam] made the dog hungry so it will follow him.’’ ..' [India Press]
• A (mis)guided tour of Baghdad '...an elderly Kurdish woman with a white scarf and beatific smile, still
  afraid of having to survive alone in her house, says, "Saddam was a dog." ...' [Asia Times Online]
•  Blair, Bush: the power to persuade '... To those who would call him [Blair] Bush's poodle or the MP for Texas ...' [Christian Science Monitor]
• Franks visits troops in Baghdad  ... "They're afraid the Kurds are going to slaughter them," said Staff Sgt. Michael Ackerman, assigned to bridge duty. "It's a dog-eat-dog world in those neighborhoods." [Tri-Valley Herald, CA]
• Where to now for the UN? 'What is happening to Iraqi citizens may well happen to anybody if Bush and Blair are not stopped now as the UN has, on more than one occasion, proved to be a toothless dog when the arrogance of the United States has had to be dealt with...' [Natal Witness, South Africa] 
• Iraqi commander soldier tells of being 'treated like dog'  "officers were ruthless, they cut off the ears of soldiers and treated us like dogs" - all for $1.65 a month ... [Sydney Morning Herald] 

Dogs don't do politics or war... but we humans do... it's time to leave the dog out of it...  Saddam was no dog; prior to his career as a mass murderer, he was  a   g a y  p o r n  s t a r (Yahoo news! [or was that one of his doubles?..] ) [more wacky war views & news links at Jakenet.com]

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Shipment of squid can't fool drug dog CA During a border inspection, a drug dog easily sniffed out smuggled 6,700 pounds of marijuana hidden within a shipment of smelly squid...   [Signonsandiego.com]

Drug dog sniffs out secret gun compartment PA A drug dog sniffed out guns possibly used in a shoot-out.

'When Allegheny County police first searched the car there were bullet casings on the seat but no guns. But the county drug dog sniffing the car's dashboard tipped police to two 9 mm pistols hidden inside a secret compartment behind the car radio...' [Tribune-Review]

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Dogs through the lens... amusing distortions in a gallery of soft, furry dogs, puppies and kittens...  [E. Michael Gallery via Brad Lauster.com]

more funny dog photos: Meet Hugo [Textism v Blogdigger.com]

fluffy puppies... name that puppy... suggestions please ... leave your mark in the comments... [William Pramana via Thomas Arie Setiawan]

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Dogs driving cars... wreck cars IL When a man left his two dogs in the back seat of his Chevy S-10 while he took a 10 minute break in a restroom, the dogs decided to drive his car... "One of the dogs was sitting with his hand up there on the wheel and the other was sitting right next to him... It would've been funny if it hadn't damaged my car."  [Journal Standard] (another good reason to use canine seatbelts... )

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