The Nose Knows

Inside Bay Area - The 4-year-old yellow Labrador isn’t called “Buffy the Mosquito Slayer” for nothing. Buffy detects mosquito- breeding water Other areas in which dogs have been trained in scene work: search and rescue, drug and explosives detection, cancer More

Dear Abby: Poem urges restraint before judgement

Independent - Before my son, Chad, was born, my husband and I took in a loving yellow Labrador, Sparky (now , who had been Many rescue animals have issues not unlike Sparky s. You need to talk to your vet about this, and also a
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Law would target pit bulls
Pasadena Star-News - space was taken up by pit bulls and pit bull mixes, with most of the animals either euthanized or given away to rescue proper precautions, they should be held criminally liable for their animal’s actions - whether it is a pit bull or a Labrador
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Dog rescuers rescued from Portage River ice
Sandusky Register - Scott Cline used his canoe to slide across the ice to rescue the dogs, but could not make it back to shore, according to the The two black Labrador retrievers were also OK. “When they reached the shore, they started running around,” he said.
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Top dogs fight it out at leading US show

Raw Story - It’s about diet and exercise, just like any athlete,” said one breeder who asked not to be named. Preston, a three year old black Labrador retriever, the number two Lab in Canada, took two turns a day on the treadmill. “He loves the treadmill. It’s a Continued

New York Post - The Labrador retriever retained its top-dog spot, followed by the Yorkshire terrier. Breeds on the popularity decline Queens breeder Brigitte Gitte Antonocci, 39, of Big City Bulldogs in Astoria, was not surprised by the rise in popularity of Continued

Boston Globe - of dog popularity, he said beagles have been “lower on the scale,” behind pugs, Boston terriers, bigger dogs like Labrador Usually, they root for the poodles,” said Eleanor Berger, a breeder of Great Danes, miniature schnauzers, and Lakeland Continued

Seniors to the (Animal) Rescue!

Washington Missourian - Recently, a neighbor called and said a mother dog and a litter of puppies were underneath her house. Sharpe crawled through A Labrador and German shepherd mix, named Jersey Girl, came to the shelter in August. Foan remembers her sweet demeanor.
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Some Families Can’t Handle Pets
NBC5 - who were greedily eating any morsel sent their way. The only thing missing from the picturesque family was a black Labrador But puppies and kittens can be particularly difficult because they tend to nip and scratch. They’re learning about their
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Birth rate follows population increase
Gillette News Record - Madison Relyea lives in a two-story house in north Gillette with her mom, Erica Relyea, 24; her dad, Mike Relyea, 22; 14 four-week-old puppies; and two Labrador retriever mothers. She walks about the spacious living room wearing a sleeping black puppy
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Few cats can brag that they’ve saved another
Hartford Courant - Labrador. We became her foster family when I was just 6 months old and she was 3- 1/2 because she was a breeder for a guide-dog place. This was when we lived in California . We helped her have three litters of adorable yellow and black puppies. One
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Young hiker’s murder puts North Georgia on edge

Times-Argus - hiker, Meredith Emerson, 24, of Buford, who disappeared near Blood Mountain on New Year’s Day with her dog, a black Labrador Search-and-rescue crews combing the area where she was last seen, a popular path that leads to the Appalachian Trail, found Find Out More

The Ledger - him, Paulette set the sport utility vehicle ablaze then got out of the vehicle and closed the door, locking his two Labrador If you’re going to hurt yourself, hurt yourself,” said Pinellas Suncoast Fire Rescue Chief Russell Livernois. “But you don’t Find Out More

Q-Notes - A few weeks would pass before we adopted another dog she s a small rescue mix puppy we named Betty. Probably it s like looking at King Kong playing with Naomi Watts, she gets along famously with our neighbor s Labrador Find Out More

Ruff deal for the Staffie

BBC News - got themselves a fierce dog and in fact they’d far rather be in front of the fire having their tummy tickled,” says breeder I recently encountered an owner of a Staffie who told me I should put my dog (a labrador) on a leash otherwise the Staffie Find Out More

Raw Story - It’s about diet and exercise, just like any athlete,” said one breeder who asked not to be named. Preston, a three year old black Labrador retriever, the number two Lab in Canada, took two turns a day on the treadmill. “He loves the treadmill. It’s a Find Out More

This is Slough - She fell in love with the look of the dog and we managed to find out what it was and found a breeder in County Wicklow. She Just 36 puppies of the breed were registered with the Kennel Club last year compared with 45,000 Labrador puppies Find Out More

Staten Island Advance - Popularity for the 17th consecutive year was the Labrador retriever, the American Kennel Club revealed. About one in eight of of owning the breed are well worth the maintenance routine, said former Islander Dorothy Prager, a champion bulldog breeder Find Out More

Pups wait for link to life

Columbia Daily Tribune - Chloe Bloom, 8, stuck her finger through the side of the kennel to pet a black Labrador puppy. After seeing the puppy eyes staring from the cages, Twila Hauzer was tempted to rescue more. “I told my husband I want to More

City Residents Guide Dogs That May Guide

New York Sun - On a recent Monday evening, four New Yorkers participated in a far-sighted exercise: coaching Labrador puppies to sit and Those who don’t make it as work dogs or breeder dogs are released for adoption. An actor and co-artistic director of Theater Find Out More

New York Post - The Labrador retriever retained its top-dog spot, followed by the Yorkshire terrier. Breeds on the popularity decline Queens breeder Brigitte Gitte Antonocci, 39, of Big City Bulldogs in Astoria, was not surprised by the rise in popularity of Find Out More

Puppies With A Purpose On Kauai

KHNL News 8 - The idea that you take a dog with a wonderful nature of labrador you cross it with the intelligence of a standard poodle,” said Summer Harrison, the mortgage broker turned breeder. It’s a career change inspired by her 6 year old daughter. Summer
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Site tracks dogs with death sentences

Record Searchlight - NEW YORK (AP) — Sweet William, a young black Labrador retriever in Illinois, has two days to live. Sandy, a golden female Isis was purchased from a breeder in Georgia. I got her at 8 weeks old. She has never wanted for anything and often acts
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Bengals have untamed look, but docile disposition
Delaware Online - came home with them during the Christmas season in 2005. Both cats played like siblings with the Williams’ 80-pound Labrador It is outlawed in most civilized countries. http://www.declawing.com/htmls/outlawed.htm. I’m suprised the breeder even
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