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The boy's mother remains hospitalized with serious injuries, while both dogs have been euthanized, officials saidA 3-year-old boy was attacked and killed, and a mother badly injured, by two dogs in their New Jersey neighborhood, law enforcement officials said Tuesday. The attack in Carteret occurred in the backyard of a home around 4:30 p.m., according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and town police chief Dennis McFadden. First responders quickly arrived at the scene and airlifted the young boy to the hospital. The child died at the hospital. The mother, who was said to have suffered severe injuries, remained hospitalized...

The two German Shepherds belonging to President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden were returned to the Biden family home in Delaware last week after aggressive behavior at the White House involving Major Biden, two sources with knowledge tell CNN. Major, who was adopted by Biden in November 2018 from a Delaware animal shelter, had what one of the people described as a "biting incident" with a member of White House security. The exact condition of the victim is unknown, however, the episode was serious enough that the dogs were subsequently moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where they remain. CNN...

Three puppies are now recovering from the cold after being rescued off a Utah mountaintop by a few snowmobilers. Holt and Kat Perry, the snowmobilers who rescued the puppies, say it was “just dumb luck” when they found the freezing puppies who were living out of a sheep’s carcass, KSTU reported. The couple was snowmobiling on a Weber County mountaintop when they discovered the puppies and a mother dog five miles away from the nearest road on Saturday. “I’m not going to leave any animal on the mountain to starve, especially, it was obvious she had pups,” Kat Perry said....

Kenzie Campbell says on Sunday he took Momo on a hike at Banff National Park in Alberta with his girlfriend and another friend. They didn't get very far on the Cascade Ampitheatre Trail. "We just made it to the trailhead and walked around a corner and the bear was maybe 20 feet away," Campbell said. They backed slowly out of the woods, but the bear followed and charged. "At this point, the bear was 15 feet from my girlfriend and the dog was barking and growling, so I let the dog go and she distracted the bear while we ran,"...

It’s easy to laugh at a grown man in a rubber dog suit chewing on a squeaky toy. Maybe too easy, in fact, because to laugh is to dismiss it, denigrate it – ignore the fact that many of us have found comfort and joy in pretending to be animals at some point in our lives. Secret Life of the Human Pups is a sympathetic look at the world of pup play, a movement that grew out of the BDSM community and has exploded in the last 15 years as the internet made it easier to reach out to likeminded...

Cute canines safe, 'Potentially unwanted programs' now nixed by System Centre or Forefront Remond has updated its paid System Center Endpoint Protection and Forefront Endpoint Protection services with a feature to kill spammy and advertising injecting programs operating from within enterprise networks. The upgrades will help system admins to eliminate potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) from networks that are not explicitly malware but at minimum are annoying and will escalate corporate attack vectors. Microsoft security bod trio Geoff McDonald, Deepak Manohar, and Dulce Montemayor say the PUP destroyer will be delivered through automatic updates. "These applications can increase the risk of...

U.S. Marines found Sandy in the streets of Qal’ah-ye Now, Afghanistan – beaten, malnourished … and pregnant. But after Sandy, under the Marines’ nursing care, gave birth to a healthy litter, she gave them a gift that would one day save their lives over and over: a little, yellow puppy the Americans named Willy Pete. Like his mother before him, Willy Pete has served not only as a companion to the Marines of Company D, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, but also as a guardian.

This is a repeat of earlier posts about the loss of our best friend, Shadow. It's been seven years. We continue to miss her greatly and always will. Shadow Baby Shadow Shadow was a beautiful, intelligent and playful Akita. We named her Shadow because she followed us like a shadow. We bought her as a young pup and, like most young pups, she enjoyed chewing on furniture and otherwise being mischievous to show her displeasure when we left her alone for a few hours. Shadow greets Sizler As she matured, Shadow taught our other pups and young horses how to...

FARM OWNER SAYS HE THOUGHT DOG HE SHOT WAS A COYOTE By Greg Kocher CENTRAL KENTUCKY BUREAU NICHOLASVILLE - Burch Hager chokes up as he talks about the shooting death of Jack, his champion coonhound. "To me, Jack was the perfect dog, you know? He was my Smarty Jones," said Hager, 47. "A hunting dog, his performance is what makes him. He's just like an athlete. He's just like a racehorse. That's what makes him what he is." But Pete Primiano, the horse farm owner who faces a civil lawsuit filed earlier this month as well as two misdemeanor charges...

NY'ER: Photos show dog attacking a naked Iraqi detainee Sun May 09 2004 08:43:02 ET In “Chain of Command,” in the May 17, 2004, issue of The New Yorker, Seymour M. Hersh describes new photos he has obtained of a dog attacking a naked Iraqi detainee at Abu Ghraib prison on December 12, 2003. The photos, which had been in the possession of a member of the 320th Military Police Battalion, show the Iraqi with his hands clasped behind his back, “leaning against the door to a cell, contorted with terror, as the dogs bark a few feet away,” Hersh...