Mirror, mirror, on the wall... who's the baddest wolf of all? A new study reveals that attitudes toward wolves are shaped by cultural bias and not by experiences... Answers depend on who's looking in the mirror.... [Wildlife Conservation Society]

Sled dog race with malamutes in pristine Pacific Northwest ID A sled dog team of enthusiastic Alaskan malamutes and their trainers is ready to take first timers for the ride of their lives ... now through March... [Coeur' d'Alene Press]

Couple buys TV for football addicted dog UK [ic Perthshire]

Man sues city for $15 million CA When a man sued the city of Escondido over a cat attack on his assistance dog in a library, he claimed he was prevented access to the library because of the cat 'who went nuts'...

 Under examination, he 'conceded that nobody at the library asked him to leave or blocked him from re-entering' [the building]...  [North County Times] (the cat was banned from the library in 2001... )

Legal beagles to the rescue... Attorneys turn to field of animal rights to find new and appreciative clients. In Portland, Oregon, Fido has about the same amount of legal recourse as a chair or rock... not much... [Portland Tribune]

Dog gets credit card... almost goes shopping CA A credit card application with a social security number of
000-00-0000 didn't stop a company from issuing Clifford J. Dog, the pug, his very own card... [NBC4.com]

Oops... dogwalker gets electrocuted... out on a walk in cold weather, badly wrapped wires were blamed for the freak electrocution of a  Manhattan woman walking  her two dog... New York (laugh at the blame game... but avoid those electrical utility boxes... ) [NBCSanDiego]

Dog has nine lives .... and a broken neck to prove it A Dachshund recovers from inoperable injury, to the stunned amazement of his vet and the joy of his family... [Ashley News Observer]

Golden retrievers: a breed apart; their owners: unabashed dog people [The Dispatch]

Police chief resigns: admits abandoned dog was his ME Over a rising furor of indignation by concerned citizens, a  police chief admitted that the starving and medically ill dog he took to a local shelter was his own... [Government News]

Dog electrocuted by live lamppost UK Caution to all dogs and owners: avoid grates and lampposts after a snow storm.

Such freak accidents occur all too often, according to The Villager and The New York Times in Unexpected Danger to Dogs lurk under snowy streets  UrbanHound offers other winter tips to keep Fido from an untimely demise... 

Move over, Red Rover ... Dingo dog finds life on Mars...  Australia A dingo dog and his scientist owner may have stumbled on proof that life on Mars has visited earth...

'An Australian Dingo-Kelpie mixed breed trained to find sewage-smelling meteorites may have accidentally proven that life once existed on Mars. The dog, Tamarind, and owner, physicist Tony Taylor, found bacteria in mud in Queensland that matched fossils of simple organisms found in a Martian meteorite that struck Antarctica 13,000 years ago... ' [ShortNews.com] Australian Dog Proves Martian Life ?

It figures. After all, dingos are smart... Dinky, the piano playing, singing dingo gets immortalized in board game Australia [Yahoo News!]