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Woman Tapes Dogs' Mouths, Gives Birth
http://www.babble.com/ CS/ blogs/ strollerderby/ archive/ 2008/ 10/ 09/ woman-ta…I am on record as not especially loving our family dog, especially post-baby: she smells, she vomits if she drinks water too fast or eats people food, which she steals from the table or the counter if we’re not looking, and she barks piteously when we leave the house.
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The Newest Type of Dogfighting
http://thoughtsfurpaws.com/ dogs/ the-newest-type-of-dogfighting/The Newest Type of Dogfighting Posted on October 7th, 2008 in Animal Welfare, Canine Corner, Dog Breeds, Dogfighting, Dogs, Pets in the News, Pit Bulls I found something really interesting and really disturbing over at Jan’s Funny Farm today. She said there is a new type of dog fighting happening in this country.
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Lesson on prejudice goes awry
http://btoellner.typepad.com/ kcdogblog/ 2008/ 10/ lesson-on-prejudice-goes-awry…We may never know what really happened in this story, but I think it's worth sharing, for a lot of reasons. Yesterday, Tia Torres and her 'pit bulls' were kicked out of Valencia High School in Los Angeles. One of the teachers at the school, Marcy Calnan, had invite Torres -- who heads one of the largest 'pit bull' rescue groups in the country - to speak to her class.
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Wagging
http://lassiegethelp.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 10/ wagging.htmlAt left, a screen grab from WSFA News, Montgomery, Alabama. According to the news report, four people were arrested after deputies "uncovered what they believe is a dog fighting ring" and found dogs kept in deplorable conditions.Bad Rap blog posted news of the raid last week: 27 pit bulls confiscated from [what may or may not have been] a dogfighting operation.
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David Hancock on Dog Breeding
http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/ 2005/ 03/ david-hancock-on-dog-breeding.ht…"Uncle Sam," a St Bernard at the 1908 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Click to enlarge. This article by Col. David Hancock first appeared in the The Countryman's Weekly back in July 14, 2000: The Way Breeding standards Used to Be "Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths
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Pet Blog of the Week: Vick Dog Blog
http://thoughtsfurpaws.com/ dogs/ pet-blog-of-the-week-vick-dog-blog/Pet Blog of the Week: Vick Dog Blog Posted on September 26th, 2008 in Canine Corner, Dog Blogs, Dog Breeds, Dogfighting, Dogs, Pet Information, Pets in the News, Pit Bulls, Rescue Pets This week’s pet blog of the week is another dog blog, the Vick Dog Blog.
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Stopping Dog Aggression
http://dog-gonnit.com/ stopping-dog-aggression/There is always a reason for aggressive behavior in dogs. If you can discover the reason for the aggression, you can usually correct or at least control a dog’s aggression. Some breeds of dogs have gotten a really bad reputation of late; pit bulls, rottweilers, and chows, for example.
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The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Science that is BSL
http://lassiegethelp.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 09/ terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad.…Christina Ridge carries her search and rescue dog Doc after he cut his front paw on glass during search and rescue efforts in downtown Galveston, Texas. Photo by L. M. Otero for the L.A. Times.Yes, that's a search and rescue pit bull. No, he wasn't bred to fight or "bred to kill" — he was bred to be blue, the color du jour.
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Blink
http://professorvj.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 09/ blink.htmlA few days ago I linked to some witty and very insightful political writing by David Foster Wallace (RIP), but there is a new piece out by George Saunders in The New Yorker that takes the cake:Explaining how she felt when John McCain offered her the Vice-Presidential spot, my Vice-Presidential candidate,
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Big Week Ahead
http://btoellner.typepad.com/ kcdogblog/ 2008/ 09/ big-week-ahead.htmlIt's a big week this week, with a lot going on. In Toronto, the folks at Banned Aid are having their appeal of the Ontario Breed Ban heard on Monday and Tuesday. The judge has already ruled that the term "pit bull" is arbitrary because it fails to refer to a specific breed of dog. The provincial
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