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N THE age-old war between cats and dogs, canines might just have struck the killer blow. A border collie called Chaser has been taught the names of 1022 items - more than any other animal. She can also categorise them according to function and shape, something children learn to do around the age of 3. Chaser follows in the footsteps of Rico, who trained at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Rico had a "vocabulary" of 200 words and could identify new objects in a group of familiar objects by a process of elimination, according to...

A toddler is recovering in hospital after receiving 200 stitches to his face following an attack by his grandmother's dog. Joshua Mann, two, was mauled by the family collie as he stroked the animal. Horrific pictures show the extent of Joshua's injuries, with deep scars crisscrossing his face. His family have been told he will have to endure further surgery before he can return home to Brockworth, near Gloucester.

Police Shoot Pit Bull, Save Collie In Dog Fight Posted: 5:14 pm EDT May 31, 2009 WASHINGTON, Pa. -- Police had to taser a pit bull twice before shooting it to end a vicious dog attack in Washington County. The pit bull attacked another dog on Broad Street in the City of Washington. "I had to get that dog off him. He's all tied up and I didn't want my dog dead." Donald Jacobs and his wife Vicky said their one-year-old collie named Buddy was attacked by a neighbor's pit bull as they sat outside their house around 11 p.m....