| February 12, 2008 | - Patty Hearst attended the Westminster Kennel Club dog
show with Diva, her French bulldog. “When people find out it's me,” said Hearst, a veteran of the Symbionese Liberation Army, “it's like it doesn't make sense.”
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Star Tribune
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| September 13, 2007 | -
Yale University exhibited tools used by Ivan Pavlov to measure dog drool, including one saliometer given as a gift to the daughter of a Yale professor.
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Hartford Courant
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| August 30, 2007 | - Deceased real estate mogul Leona Helmsley left a $12 million bequest to her dog, a small white Maltese named Trouble.
| Source:
New York Daily News
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| June 22, 2007 | - In Idaho, a black Labrador drove his owner's Chevy Impala into a river.
- In Idaho, a black Labrador drove his owner's Chevy Impala into a river.
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AP via Philly.com
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| May 17, 2007 | -
Arizona
dogs were advised to not swallow hallucinogenic toads.
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Tucson Citizen
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| March 23, 2007 | - After two black Labrador retrievers sniffed out a shipment of nearly a million black-market
DVDs in Johor, Malaysian disc pirates offered a bounty to anyone who kills the dogs, which were on loan from the Motion Picture Association of America. Lucky and Flo were subsequently moved to a safe house.
| Source:
AP via Canadian press
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| February 9, 2007 | - Organized dog fighting was increasingly popular throughout central Russia. Stanislav Mikhailov, president of the All-Russian Association of Russian
Volkodavs (“wolf-killers”) said, “Only people who have not seen it, and do not understand it, dislike this.”
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NY Times
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| January 5, 2007 | - The FDA approved Slentrol, a weight loss drug for dogs.
| Source:
USA Today
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| December 1, 2006 | - Poor Zimbabweans were happily eating dog
food.
| Source:
Institute for war and peace reporting
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| November 27, 2006 | -
South Korea's
Agriculture Ministry announced plans to kill all the cats and dogs in Iksan, Korea. Minister Kim Chang-sup defended the action, undertaken in response to an outbreak of avian flu, by saying, “Other countries do it. They just don't talk about it.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 16, 2006 | - A study found that people with vicious
dogs, like pit bulls, have more criminal convictions than people who own nice dogs, like beagles and collies.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 10, 2006 | - Right-wing columnist Christopher Hitchens confessed that he had eaten a dog.
| Source:
Daily Mirror
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| October 6, 2006 | - Dog-feces-cleanup franchises were opening across the United States. It's the “best job in the world,” said Matt Boswell, the Chief Excrement Officer of Texas-based Pet Butler, which operates in 14 states.
| Source 1:
The Seattle Times
Source 2:
MSNBC
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| September 7, 2006 | - Joseph Lieberman returned to the Senate for the first time since losing the Connecticut
Democratic primary, and Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine) offered to buy him a dog.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| August 30, 2006 | - A woman in Hohhot, China, crashed her car into another vehicle while allowing her dog to drive.
| Source:
Guardian
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| August 1, 2006 | - In Japan, on the Day of the Dog, Princess Kiko prayed for the safe delivery of her third child.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 1, 2006 | - In China 50,000 dogs died in Yunnan province when government-authorized “killing teams” crept into villages at night and beat the dogs to death.
| Source:
Local6.com
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| July 31, 2006 | - Hot weather killed 141 people (as well as 25,000 cattle and 700,000 fowl) in California, at least 170 people in France, Italy, and Spain, and dozens of racing dogs in Oregon, and shut down MySpace.
| Source:
CBS
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| July 21, 2006 | - A school headmaster in China burned down 10 classrooms when the dog
meat he was cooking burst into flames.
| Source:
The Australian
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| July 18, 2006 | -
Wolf-dogs attacked and killed a woman in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
| Source:
Local 6.com
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| July 11, 2006 | - Bees killed four dogs in Florida.
| Source:
Local 6
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| June 2, 2006 | - A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 90 days' hard labor for threatening a prisoner at Abu Ghraib with a dog in 2003. “You can . . . end up losing the whole dang war,” said the prosecuting attorney, “basically for boneheaded decisions and misjudgments.”
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| May 19, 2006 | - A kennel was ordered closed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after a cockapoo was found with yeast in both of its ears.
| Source:
Lancaster Online
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| May 3, 2006 | - Prince Henrik of Denmark, honorary president of the Danish Dachshund Club, told an interviewer that he enjoys eating
dogs.
| Source:
The New York Sun
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| April 28, 2006 | - A couple in Milford Township, Pennsylvania, were suing a veterinarian for faking the death of their dog and then giving the dog to someone else.
| Source:
Mcall.com
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| April 4, 2006 | - Someone was mutilating and killing the dogs of Superior Township, Michigan.
| Source:
WHIO-TV
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| March 25, 2006 | - A poodle
rapist in Phoenix, Arizona, remained at large.
| Source:
KOLD
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| March 2, 2006 | -
Global warming forced the organizers of Alaska's Iditarod dogsled
race to move the race 30 miles north.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 1, 2006 | - At least 65 dogs in the President's security detail were put up at a five-star hotel in New Delhi; hotel staff were told to address the dogs as "sergeant" or "major."
| Source:
New Kerala
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| January 1, 2006 | -
Hunters in Spain were killing 50,000 hunting greyhounds each year by drowning, poisoning, and hanging them; those greyhounds that “humiliate” their owners by failing to win races or catch hares are often hanged in such a way that their paws barely touch the ground, and as they struggle against the noose, the dogs' nails make a clacking noise. This is known as “the typewriting death.”
| Source:
The Guardian
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| December 31, 2005 | - A police officer in Fremont, California, was attacked by a pack of chihuahuas and was later treated for ankle bites.
| Source:
AP
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| December 19, 2005 | - An Ohio man named Wayne Green was suing a police drug
dog for illegal search. “They've got a mean ol' dog,” he explained. “You know what I'm saying?” The dog, Andi, signed with a paw print when served with the complaint.
| Source:
CourtTV.com
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| December 17, 2005 | - A passerby found 30 dog heads in a Tokyo moat.
| Source:
Japan Today
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| December 1, 2005 | - In Russia a pack of squirrels attacked and, according to an eyewitness, “literally gutted” a large dog that was barking at them. When humans approached the squirrels ran away, some carrying flesh.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| November 24, 2005 | - In South Korea
geneticist Hwang Woo-suk, who cloned an Afghan hound named Snuppy, resigned as chairman of the World Stem Cell Hub after it was discovered that he had used the eggs of women from his research team in experiments. “We needed a lot of ova for the research,” he explained, “but there were not enough ova around.”
| Source:
BBC News
|
| November 4, 2005 | - In Finland a dog named Sonar sniffed out her 95th drowned corpse.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 13, 2005 | - A Maine woman admitted to drowning her boyfriend's dachshund Dewey in a bathtub with the help of a friend. “Erin,” said an assistant county attorney, “was very, very jealous of Dewey.”
| Source:
Yahoo News
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| September 22, 2005 | - A man in Butte, Montana, was charged with killing and beheading a dog, then throwing the severed head at the dog’s owner. "Here," said the man, "is your f------- dog back."
| Source:
The Independent Record
|
| September 14, 2005 | - In Spokane, Washington, a man was in trouble for breaking into another man's house and smearing the man's naked, sleeping body with chocolate frosting, then opening a dog pen in the hope that a dog would eat the frosting.
| Source:
KXLY.com
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| August 5, 2005 | - A British man was in trouble for attacking his wife with a pike. He later fed the pike to his cats and dogs.
| Source:
Mirror.co.uk
|
| August 3, 2005 | - In South Korea, scientists cloned an Afghan hound. The clone is named Snuppy, for Seoul National University Puppy.
| Source:
AP
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| August 2, 2005 | - A surprising number of dogs were jumping to their deaths from a bridge in Milton, Scotland, but no one knew why. "Everything dogs do is for a reason," said a perplexed animal behaviorist. "They're not stupid like we are."
| Source:
Tallahassee Democrat
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| July 19, 2005 | - A British court, acting under the legal principle of “universal jurisdiction,” convicted a man named Faryadi Zardad on torture charges for events that took place while Zardad lived in Afghanistan, where he would often unleash a “human dog”--a crazed man he kept in a hole--on captives he was holding for ransom. In London, where he has lived since 1998, Zardad ran a pizza parlor.
| Source:
GlobeAndMail.com
|
| July 15, 2005 | - A St. Charles, Illinois, man was accused of seducing an Akita through a chain-link fence.
| Source:
Daily Herald
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| June 27, 2005 | - Scientists in Pittsburgh killed a dog, then resurrected it hours later with fresh blood.
| Source:
News.com.au
|
| June 20, 2005 | - In Spartanburg, South Carolina, a man was caught molesting a dog. “He had his pants down,” said the owner of the dog, “and he was doing sexual activity with the dog like a man would do to a woman.” The dog, Princess, later died of related injuries.
| Source:
Fox Carolina
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| June 6, 2005 | - A care worker at a Japanese mental home was arrested for unleashing feral dogs to keep patients in their rooms.
| Source:
Mainichi Daily News
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| May 24, 2005 | - A San Diego doctor was training a dog named Ginger to detect cancer by sniffing human urine.
| Source:
Sign On San Diego
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| May 12, 2005 | - In Utah, a high school teacher brought his class to see the dissection of a live dog. “I thought,” he said, “that it would be just really a good experience.”
| Source:
Local6.com
|
| March 13, 2005 | -
Israel was preparing to attack Iran's
nuclear facilities with helicopters, guns, and dogs.
| Source:
Times Online
|
| March 2, 2005 | - A toddler was lost in the Alabama woods; police, firemen, and family friends searched for him in vain. Finally, he was rescued by a three-legged dog.
| Source:
NBC 13
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| February 23, 2005 | - In Edinburgh, Scotland, a blind man bit his guide dog.
| Source:
The Scotsman
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| February 18, 2005 | -
dogsDogs in Australia were licking toads to get high.
| Source:
The World News
|
| January 12, 2005 | - A police officer in the Philippines was accused of stealing a fellow officer's bomb-sniffing dog, then eating it.
| Source:
Sun Star Davao
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| January 10, 2005 | - A Florida man, upset over hurricanes, beat a puppy with a hammer.
| Source:
St. Petersburg Times
|
| January 5, 2005 | - Iraq's thirteen police dogs weren't getting enough to eat,
| Source:
WYFF
|
| November 19, 2004 | - Web publishers were upset with the White House for denying them the right to host a Christmastime video of Barney the dog; the White House insisted that the publishers link to the video instead of hosting it themselves. Last year's video, “Barney Reloaded,” which featured Karl Rove draped in Christmas lights, brought 24 million visitors to the White House website.
| Source:
News.com
|
| November 10, 2004 | - All around the world, dogs were doing yoga.
| Source:
Animal Planet
|
| July 14, 2004 | - A first draft of the dog
genome was released.
| Source:
NIH
|
| July 9, 2004 | - The mayor of Nyahururu, Kenya, ordered the slaughter of 500 pigs because they were mating with stray dogs.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| July 8, 2004 | - People in Canberra, Australia, were warned to beware of mad starving kangaroos; at least one golden retriever has been drowned by a kangaroo, and a woman was attacked while out walking her poodle.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| May 19, 2004 | - The Humane Society complained that racing
dogs in Florida were being given cocaine.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| April 26, 2004 | - It was discovered that pheromones that mimic those emitted by lactating bitches soothe misbehaving dogs by reminding them of their puppyhoods.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| April 15, 2004 | - A man in Ocala, Florida, was in trouble after his fiancée caught him raping her rottweiler dog.
| Source:
Ocala Star Banner
|
| March 31, 2004 | - Scientists found that purebred dogs really do resemble their owners but that mutts do not.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| November 6, 2003 | - A dog shot a man in France.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| October 25, 2003 | -
FBI agents at the Norfolk, Virginia, airport took anal swabs from a mechanical farting dog to make sure it did not contain explosives.
| Source:
BBC
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| October 16, 2003 | - A German man who taught his dog, Adolf, to perform the Nazi salute by raising its right paw escaped prosecution for the trick.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 11, 2003 | - The government of Cambodia was urging people to eat stray dogs.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| August 13, 2003 | - Sylvester Stallone's mother said that her dogs, which she believes to be psychic, have predicted a victory for Arnold Schwarzenegger in the California recall election, and an apocalyptic Christian preacher named Jack Van Impe claimed that he had been contacted by Condoleezza Rice, who he said asked him for an outline of what the end of the world will be like.
| Source:
MSNBC.com
|
| July 11, 2003 | - Mrs. Bush read a book about Clifford the big red dog to some HIV-infected children in Uganda; the children responded with a song: "AIDS has no mercy to the youth," they sang. "We all die young."
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 1, 2003 | - The British House of Commons voted to ban fox hunting with dogs.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| May 11, 2003 | - Federal authorities said that they will permit passengers to take cats, dogs, and other animals, including monkeys, on airplanes for emotional support but not snakes, rodents, or spiders.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 29, 2003 | -
Four American soldiers were arrested for stealing $900,000 from the $800 million they happened upon near abandoned Baghdad palaces and dog kennels.
| |
| April 8, 2003 | -
The Pekingese that won the Crufts dogshow in Birmingham, England, was accused of having had a face-lift.
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| March 4, 2003 | -
Iraq crushed four Al Samoud 2 missiles with a bulldozer; Hans Blix said that the decision to destroy the missiles was a “very significant piece of real disarmament.” A pack of dogs attacked six parked cars in Munich.
| |
| January 28, 2003 | -
A Virginia man who was trying to beat his dog to death with a shotgun accidentally shot himself to death.
| |
| December 17, 2002 | -
A police
dog in St. Petersburg, Florida, bit off a robbery suspect's penis.
| |
| October 29, 2002 | -
Dogs, scientists found, are better behaved when listening to Bach than when listening to Metallica.
| |
| October 22, 2002 | -
An Iranian cleric declared a jihad on dog owners: “I demand the judiciary arrest all dogs with long, medium, or short legs together with their long-legged owners.”
| |
| September 24, 2002 | -
The World Sheepdog Trials in Bala, Wales, were disrupted by a low-flying military jet.
| |
| August 20, 2002 | -
A number of videotapes made by Al Qaeda were discovered; several contained footage of dogs being killed by what appeared to be chemical weapons, and one contained a documentary in which Osama bin Laden called Saddam Hussein a bad Muslim.
| |
| May 7, 2002 | -
Restaurateurs in Korea were planning to offer “dog meat juice” to foreigners outside the World Cup stadium in Seoul. “We plan to develop canned dog meat tonic juice, which football fans can enjoy in their stadium seats,” said Choi Han-Gwon, the head of an association of dog meat restaurants.
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| April 30, 2002 | -
Sales of deer, goat, and dog penis were down in China due to the popularity of Viagra.
| |
| April 16, 2002 | -
“We won't leave until there is a surrender agreement with the terrorists there inside.” An Israeli tank brigade in the West Bank adopted a stray dog and named it “George W. Bush” because it “barks a lot” but is “useless.” There were many reports of atrocities by Israeli troops as they destroyed the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank; witnesses reported scores of civilian casualties, bodies littering the streets, buildings demolished with families inside.
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| March 26, 2002 | -
A woman whose dog mauled a neighbor to death was convicted of second-degree murder.
| |
| March 12, 2002 | -
Israeli veterinarians were giving Valium to nervous dogs to soothe their panic attacks.
| |
| January 8, 2002 | -
Buddy Clinton, the former First Dog, was killed in a Westchester County, New York, cul-de-sac by an S.U.V.
| |
| August 28, 2001 | -
Iranian
police launched a crackdown on “flagrant manifestations of corruption,” including selling pet dogs, playing loud music, and displaying women's underwear in shop windows.
| |
| June 26, 2001 | - A Chilean boy was found living with a pack of wild dogs in Talcahuano; the boy, who had lived with the dogs for two years, described nursing from a pregnant bitch when he was unable to find water.
| |
| May 8, 2001 | -
Alabama's
senate approved a bill that would allow video gambling machines to be installed at dog tracks.
| |
| May 8, 2001 | -
Dogs in Montreal were pissing on a crab-apple tree planted in honor of the late Pierre Trudeau.
| |
| May 1, 2001 | - American police
dogs were being outfitted with titanium teeth.
| |
| May 1, 2001 | - Brigitte Bardot was extremely upset that the mayor of Bucharest, Romania, was killing
stray dogs instead of putting them up for adoption as the aging actress had demanded; she accused the mayor of tyranny.
| |
| April 10, 2001 | - Two beggars in Chisinau, Moldova, were arrested for selling human body parts, which were apparently taken from a cancer clinic, as dog food.
| |
| April 3, 2001 | - Marjorie Knoller, a San Francisco lawyer whose dog Bane killed a young woman who lived next door, was indicted for second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, and failure to control a mischievous animal that causes a death.
| |
| April 3, 2001 | - Her husband was indicted on similar charges; officials were investigating whether the couple, who have adopted an adult convict as their son, had been sexually abusing the dog.
| |
| March 27, 2001 | -
Animals without Borders was shipping stray dogs from Romania to Belgium and France to prevent them from being killed in a campaign to remove 200,000 strays from the streets of Bucharest.
| |
| March 13, 2001 | - A dead infant was found in the jaws of a dog in Brooklyn.
| |
| March 6, 2001 | - Brigitte Bardot was trying to save 200,000 mangy stray dogs in Bucharest, Romania, that bite over 20,000 people a year.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
Taiwan banned the eating of dogs and cats.
| |
| November 28, 2000 | -
Queen Elizabeth II was photographed wringing the neck of a wounded pheasant which a hunting
dog had dropped at her feet; British
animal-rights types were appalled. At church the next day, the Queen wore a red hat accented with pheasant feathers.
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| November 14, 2000 | - South African television broadcast a 1998 training video showing black prisoners being mauled repeatedly by police
dogs as they begged for mercy; six white policemen were arrested shortly thereafter.
| |
| September 19, 2000 | - A study by the American Veterinary Medical Association concluded that Rottweiler dogs now kill more people than do pit bulls.
| |
| September 12, 2000 | - While in Japan, the Russian president was serenaded by a robot
dog that sang the Russian national anthem.
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