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Denver’s KUSA-TV morning news anchor Kyle Dyer was bitten a few weeks ago by an Argentine Mastiff while talking to the firefighter who had pulled the dog from an icy lake. Good news! After two surgeries and a total of 90 stitches, she’s doing much better now. Check out the whole story from The Today Show.
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Good day, and good dog!
We’ve posted a couple of stories about Mitt Romney sticking his dog in a rooftop car carrier for the family’s trip to Canada. This story, although relatively old news, was in the headlines for quite awhile. What do you think? Does the way a man treats his dog affect how you feel about him for President?
Continue reading Saturday Survey: Does Romney’s Treatment of His Dog Affect Your Vote?
Somehow I totally missed this controversy last week – I think I was suffering from lack of sleep and excitement overload over the Westminster show.
Continue reading Controversy over Westminster Dog Show Sponsorship
More on the boneheaded decision Romney made several years ago to transport his dog to Canada in a car-top carrier. And, dog-related stuff you can buy from the Obama campaign website.
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What a horrible thing to have to report! What started off as a great fluff news piece went horribly wrong in Denver Wednesday, as reported in the Huffington Post.
Continue reading Dog Rescued from Icy Pond Bites News Anchor Kyle Dyer
Rep. Ed Trimmer is proposing a bill to designate the Cairn Terrier as the official dog breed of Kansas at the urging of Kansas native Brenda Moore, chairwoman of the South Central Kansas Kennel Club. Moore feels the designation is important to her state.
There was a previous attempt to designate the Cairn Terrier as state dog in 2006 and although it scored thousands of signatures, no politicians took up the cause.
Let’s click our paws together three times for a new Kansas state dog!
Axelrod tweeted a photo of Obama riding with Bo in the back of his armored limousine with the caption “How loving owners transport their dogs.” Clearly this was meant as a dig at Romney, and probably a well-deserved one considering the act of cruelty where Romney somehow thought it was a good idea to strap his dog’s kennel, with the dog inside, to the roof of his car for an entire 12-hour drive.
The tweet’s timing coincided with the launch of a Facebook page called ‘Pet Lovers for Obama‘ – where pet owners are encouraged to upload photos of their pets wearing Obama 2012 gear.
You can see the original Axelrod tweet here.
A camera is strapped to the dog’s back with real-time images transmitted to the handler’s wrist-mounted display, allowing the officer to see into dark spaces he wouldn’t be able to get into himself.
A recent training mission had two-year-old Apache, a German Shepherd, tracking a “suspect” (actually a human officer) in the underground subway system. Apache and his fellow trainees are the first group of NYPD dogs to get infrared cameras, which are the same kind the Navy Seals used in the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound last year.
Other new high-tech equipment includes a canine GPS tracking system to help follow dogs on a scent trail, dog collars that emit light, and two custom-built mobile air-conditioned kennel trucks with food storage and rest areas so K9 officers can take a break, have a meal, or escape the summer heat. The trucks can store up to a month of food so they could be used in disaster zones if needed.
Blackie was initially snubbed from the nominations, but Scorsese wrote a letter to the LA Times encouraging people to contact the award show’s organizers to request Blackie be added to the nomination list. Scorsese felt that Blackie should have been nominated in the “best dog in a theatrical film” category.
Blackie starred in the Oscar-nominated film Hugo as an attack dog owned by a train station officer. Scorsese suggested that Blackie didn’t originally secure a nomination due to the role she played, pointing out that a cute little Jack Russell Terrier received nominations for two films because the Jack Russell “plays a nice little mascot who does tricks and saves his master’s life in one of the films, while Blackie gives an uncompromising performance as a ferocious guard dog who terrorizes children.”
Dog Daily News, the Golden Collar Awards organizer, agreed to add Blackie to the nomination list if it received 500 write-in nominations via their Facebook page.