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MISSING DOG The owner of the duplex where the fire started is looking for his dog, which ran away after firefighters broke out the window of the home.

****Rin Tin Tin's latest film doesn't sit well with Daphne Hereford, and if she has her way, the star's next drama could be in court**** CROCKETT — To Daphne Hereford, Rin Tin Tin isn't just a dog, Rin Tin Tin is a lifelong cause.

LEWISTOWN - At times, it can be difficult for law enforcement personnel to catch a fugitive, especially when it seems as if that person is one step ahead of the police; but that never lasts, and eventually they get their guy. Sometimes all it takes is a little help from man's best friend.

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Did anyone watch the special tonight on Fox with Greta van Susteren about Sarah Palin? Well, she's a slam-dunk for me now.

GREELEY, Colorado (AP) -- A dog stood guard over her owner's body for up to six weeks after the man committed suicide on the remote northeastern Colorado plains, authorities said.

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Marine Cpl. Dustin Jerome Lee and his German shepherd, Lex, scoured Iraq for roadside bombs together, slept next to each other and even posed in Santa hats for a holiday photo. When a mortar attack killed the 20-year-old Marine in Fallujah a few months later, Lex, whimpering from his own injuries, had to be pulled away, Lee's father was told. That strong bond compelled the slain Marine's family to adopt 8-year-old Lex even though the military said he still had two years of service.

An 85-pound German shepherd has become the unlikely face of the immigration debate in upscale Princeton, N.J., after a judge ordered the dog to be put down for attacking an illegal immigrant last summer. Thousands of people have flooded the Internet and even petitioned the governor to ask that Congo be spared for his attack on Honduran landscaper Giovanni Rivera, who was injured seriously in June and later awarded $250,000 in insurance money. And while New Jersey Gov. John Corzine has denied calls for a pardon, some town residents are upset the illegal immigrant was allowed to collect monetary compensation...

Dog gets stay of execution By Rick Murray, Staff Writer Guy James holds his children Ben, 9, left, and Hannah, 11, outside Princeton Municipal Court Tuesday. Photo: Jackie SchearPRINCETON TWP. — Congo the death row dog won a temporary stay of execution today, but his tearful local owners can’t spring him on bail. The reason: Dogs don’t rate bail. And why? “They’re not human,” said Judge Russell Annich, whose courtroom here was aswarm in Congo supporters. Meanwhile, the lawyer for the defense says Congo the inmate is anxious, losing weight, and so depressed he keeps pacing his cage in circles....

A family whose beloved German shepherd faces death for having led a dog attack on a landscaper is devastated by the news but vows to continue to fight to save him. (snip) The landscaper, Giovanni Rivera, has won a $250,000 insurance settlement as a result of serious injuries he sustained in the attack, which occurred when he and others disobeyed instructions from James not to get out of their car until Congo and several other dogs on the property could be sequestered for safety. Rivera, a Trenton man, was on the 10-acre, fenced property on Stuart Road to do yard...

Judge orders shepherd destroyed after vicious attack Thursday, November 08, 2007 BY LINDA STEIN PRINCETON TOWNSHIP -- A family whose beloved German shepherd faces death for having led a dog attack on a landscaper is devastated by the news but vows to continue to fight to save him. ..."He's innocent. He did nothing more than protect my wife. He never bit anyone until she was grabbed and pulled to the ground," James said. Congo has been ruled vicious by a municipal judge and ordered put down. ...The landscaper, Giovanni Rivera, has won a $250,000 insurance settlement as a result of...

PRINCETON TOWNSHIP -- A family whose beloved German shepherd faces death for having led a dog attack on a landscaper is devastated by the news but vows to continue to fight to save him. "He needs to come home," said Guy James, the Princeton homeowner who managed to call his dogs off the landscaper, but only after the worker was severely mauled in the June 5 attack.

It has come to my attention that German Shepherd Rescue of Orange County is overflowing with pups that were going to have to be euthanized due to the extra GSD's that have come in to them due to the fires. GSROC WAS NOT GOING TO DO THE EUTHANIZING....!!! I know one lady who has nine (9)! dogs living in her home, temporarily....(yikes!) Anyway...they need help, big time. If you've never owned a GSD before, I'd recommend you read up on the breed as they will train YOU if you don't learn to train THEM from the moment they come strutting...

BRUSH PRAIRIE - The tracking dog Dakota was shot and killed Tuesday as teams of SWAT officers closed in on an armed convicted murderer - who allegedly had told an acquaintance he wanted to "kill a cop." Dakota, a 5-year-old German shepherd owned by the Vancouver Police Department, was shot in the head and killed about 3 ½ hours after police were called to the Lewis & Clark Railway Co. tracks just east of Northeast Caples Road in Brush Prairie....

ALTON, N.H. -- A man who had been missing in the New Hampshire woods since Sunday was found alive Tuesday afternoon after his dog led rescuers near his location. Fish and Game Department officials said that Chuck Schultz, 64, was hiking with his German shepherd in some woods near a hiking trail. An officer saw his pickup truck parked near the woods Sunday morning and became concerned when the vehicle was still there Monday afternoon. Rescue teams had been searching for Schultz since Monday. Tuesday afternoon, Schultz's dog returned to the vehicle and led search teams back into the woods....

I need help placing a 16 month old German Shepherd who we rescued from the original owner. She has NOT been fixed, has EXCELLENT blood lines and has had all of her shots. The dog has become my BEST friend...and while that's great, I have a 10 month old GS and they're not getting along. It's getting worse as time goes by. Due to personal reasons of my own, I need her placed by this coming Wednesday. (8-15-07) She MUST go to an owner who has had a GS and understands the dynamics of that, and who is willing to...

This morning, for the first time in almost nine years, I was not awakened by my canine alarm clock. I rolled out of bed to see my best friend Timber, stretched out at the foot of my bed where he laid down last night for what would be his final sleep. Last night when I came home from work, all seemed fine, and even though he's been showing signs of age, there was nothing unusual about his demeanor or behavior. After my shower last night, I played with my dogs for a little while before bed, and will be forever...

Hello dog lovers, looking for help into possible adoption set-ups for my sister's 3yo German Shepherd. He is turning out to be very allergic (another German-line dog with allergies) and she just cannot handle the effort and money and time needed these days. We're scared that it will be very hard to adopt him out if necessary; allergies and their visible effects do not make him highly adoptable! Does anyone know if any rescue organizations are willing to take such a high-maintenance (probably will be) dog, or of any other way to adopt out such a dog?

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- Though she's only a 6-pound Chihuahua-rat terrier mix who looks like she belongs in Paris Hilton's purse, Midge has the will, skill and nose of a 100-pound German shepherd.

BENNINGTON — A man cited for animal cruelty after police discovered he had 29 dogs living with him on a school bus claims he is misunderstood and that he just wanted to find a place where he and his dogs could live in peace. Larry Rogers Mason, 52, said his long-term plan was to find a rural congregation in the heartland where Mason, an ordained minister, could serve. "I was hoping to find some niche in America that would support the idiosyncrasies of a person raising a lot of dogs," he said.

Description: This is my dog getting a beer out of the fridge. He was tired that night from his walk so he's not too enthused.

LONDON (Reuters) - Dog handlers in a British police force are having to take language classes -- to communicate with their latest recruits. Finding it increasingly hard to find suitable German Shepherds in Britain, some British police forces are bringing in dogs from continental Europe. But there's a problem. Although the latest arrivals possess all the attributes needed for police work, they only respond to commands in their native language. Dog handlers at Avon and Somerset police for example, which has recruited three dogs from the Netherlands, have been given a sheet of practical commands in Dutch. "We have learned...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his first Easter Sunday as pontiff, praying for peace Iraq, negotiated solutions to the world's nuclear disputes and dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians. Looking tired, Benedict led nearly 100,000 pilgrims, tourists and Romans in Mass in St. Peter's Square. His 79th birthday coincided with Easter, when Christians commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion. "Today, even in this modern age marked by anxiety and uncertainty, we live the event of the resurrection, which changed the face of our life and changed the history of humanity," Benedict said in the traditional...

Pope Benedict Says Teach Youth the Holiness of Marriage, Value of Human Life Says embryos in earliest stages of life are fully human By Gudrun Schultz VATICAN CITY, April 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI said there is a need to teach young people about the holiness of marriage, and to educate them within a Christian context, in two addresses over the past three days. Speaking to the Bishops of the Ivory Coast Monday, the Holy Father said young people must be better taught about the holiness of the marriage vocation and the great potential it offers for sanctity....

27 March 2006 CASH GOES FROM DEATH ROW TO COP DOG Trainer turns wild alsatian into perfect police recruit By Lachlan Mackinnon A DELINQUENT alsatian put on death row because he was too aggressive has become a police dog. Two-year-old Cash snarled at anyone who came near him - until he was spotted by a police dog trainer in SSPCA kennels at Both well, Lanarkshire. Cash has since passed his Home Office licence exams - a feat only achieved by one in 10 dogs. He is regularly posted on crowd control duty at Old Firm matches and once nabbed two...

Washington Blade Names Pope Benedict XVI Anti-Gay Person of the Year Thursday December 29, 10:49 am ET Gay Newspaper Identifies 'Blessed Bigotry' as God's 'Rottweiler' Attacks Gay Marriage and Priests WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- As 2005 draws to a close, many media outlets will announce their selections for person of the year. In past years, the Washington Blade editors have selected a Story of the Year instead. This year, the Story of the Year was, in the Washington Blade's view, the extraordinary efforts of one individual to not only put a halt to the acceptance of gay people legally...

After eight months on the job, Pope Benedict XVI has created a charisma all his own Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005 The man who would become pope benedict XVI began the year behind a desk. Granted, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was no ordinary shuffler of Vatican papers; indeed, he had long been celebrated by Church conservatives as the architect of Pope John Paul II's doctrinal policy and vilified by progressives as the panzerkardinal who defended Catholic orthodoxy with the impenetrability of a tank. Yet Ratzinger's quotidian reality was essentially that of an exalted Catholic Church bureaucrat. Working the day shift at Church...

My beautiful German Shepherd has become more agressive lately and the time to decide his future is upon us before something happens to us or someone else. We got him from a breeder of Schuntzhund shepherds. We took him to some training until we decided he was to inclined to be aggressive and that Schuntzhund training was not what he needed. His breeder even told us she knew he would bite (saw it in him as a puppy -- but big money made her not mention it to us apparently--that was the last time we took him to Schuntzhund --...