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The Dog Who Hates Me By JOHN MOE Published: January 27, 2010
I give him bacon. I give him belly rubs. Is a little affection so much to ask?
“. . . Until the next day, when I came home from work, at which point the dog started barking his head off. He cowered; he growled. [...]

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Scientists Find a Shared Gene in Dogs With Compulsive Behavior
By MARK DERR Published: January 18, 2010
This is a fascinating article, especially as an an owner of a dog with issues.
“Dr. Dodman and his collaborators searched for a genetic source for this behavior by scanning and comparing the genomes [...]

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Los Angeles Times
Dogs emerge victorious in new dogs-versus-cats poll
January 8, 2010 | 10:34 am
“Clearly, there are dog people and there are cat people. But it’s not much of a contest: 74% of people like dogs a lot, and only 41% like cats a lot.  Cats win the dislike vote handily, [...]

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Parade Magazine
Bringing Marley Home
by John Grogan published: 01/03/2010
“. . . It was all because of Marley. Had he been a better dog, more controllable and behaved, there would have been no story. I found my inspiration in all that he did wrong—and in the way he challenged us, forging us into a stronger, closer family. [...]

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The Wisdom of a Four-Legged Elder By MICHELLE SLATALLA  December 24, 2009
“Human lives follow a certain trajectory; you come full circle. You move from infancy to become a child, then make your parents’ lives a living hell during your teenage years, then achieve adulthood (when your aging parents [...]

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RUDOLPH, A DIFFERENT KIND OF DOG
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:38 PM By Stephanie Himango, NBC News Producer
Rudolph is no ordinary daschund. He was born blind and death, with an unusually pale coat…a result of overbreeding.  In addition to his sensory challenges, Rudolph spent the first year of his life in a [...]

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Flawed Dogs – The Novel The Shocking Raid on Westminster December 6, 2009 – By JOHN SCHWARTZ – Books / Sunday Book Review
“A wacky adventure of misfit dogs and an orphan girl from the cartoonist behind “ Bloom County.”
Sam the Lion, the ne plus ultra of wiener [...]

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Time Magazine
Can Attack Dogs Be Rehabilitated? By DAVID VON DREHLE Monday, Dec. 07, 2009
” . . .  Those receiving a positive prognosis, however, may be placed in a sort of halfway house for old fighters — a place like Tiffany McBee’s Broken Hearts, Mended Souls Rescue in Fulton, Mo. Programs like [...]

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The St. Petersburg Times had an Associated Press article in Sunday’s Nation section that was originally written by Jan Sears of the San Bernandino County Press Enterprise,  published on 10/28/09.  Sheep Fire victim Bobby Wright gives thanks for his dogs that survived ”
“Smoky and Lady would have some hair-raising tales to tell, [...]

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Good Dog, Smart Dog By SARAH KERSHAW published November 1, 2009 in the New York Times
“The increasingly complicated work of service dogs suggests there’s more to the canine brain than a good nose and an instinct to please.”
“The matter of what exactly goes on in the mind of a dog [...]