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At least three dogs are dead and 12 more are missing after someone broke into the Riverside County Animal Shelter in Jurupa Valley and opened up their kennels, officials said. Animal Services spokesman John Welsh said a man in dark clothing can be seen on surveillance footage breaking locks early Sunday, Sept. 13, to release 22 dogs from their kennels at 6851 Van Buren Road.

This is a very funny video of a Dachshund attacking a shark. Be sure to watch the video to the end. Dachshund Attacks Shark

Bo (woof) In Commentary: If you dropped off your owner at spring break, would you have difficulty picking him out when he returned? Of course not. So how can an owner not know his own canine when he returns from a week of fried seafood and fried skin? I don’t know but here’s the story. (LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. - Ken Griggs likes his new dog, but he preferred the old one. Then again, it might be the same dog. In a possible case of mistaken identity, Griggs said the black Labrador named Callie that he left at a Dundee kennel...

11/14/2006 - TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. (AFPN) -- Base officials, family members and friends gathered here Nov. 7 to remember a fallen NCO and participate in a dedication ceremony. The Tech. Sgt. Jason Norton Military Working Dog Facility was dedicated in the base's security forces complex. Sergeant Norton was killed Jan. 22 while deployed in support of the war on terrorism; his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device while conducting convoy escort duties near Taji, Iraq. About 25 members and friends traveled from Florida and other states to attend the ceremony at Tinker, where Sergeant Norton had been assigned...

Grandmother Accused Of Keeping Boy In Dog KennelCandelario Works As Detention Counselor For Jefferson County UPDATED: 7:44 pm MDT May 26, 2006 COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- A detention center counselor remains in jail on $100,000 bond after she was arrested Thursday night for allegedly locking her 13-year-old grandson in a dog kennel while she's at work, Commerce City police said. June Candelario, 61, faces charges of second-degree kidnapping, reckless endangerment, false imprisonment and child abuse. Commerce City police were alerted to the case when they were called to a home in the 68th Avenue and Ash Street on a report...

Each year, so-called "Class B" dealers provide some 42,000 dogs to laboratory and veterinary research, their nurturing and treatment prior to sale regulated by the federal Department of Agriculture. But the kennels are many, and the inspectors limited in number. Abuse, according to the documentary "Dealing Dogs" (9 p.m. Tuesday, HBO), is widespread, sometimes involving kennel operators who not only mistreat the animals, but obtain their stock from pet thieves.

Tarek Aziz "fails" and will not live more than one month - the former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Aziz, held by the American army, "fails" and will not live more than one month because of a "cerebral embolism and cardiac diseases", affirms its lawyer in public statements Thursday by Arab daily newspaper Al-Hayat. According to Me Badie Arif Ezzat, Tarek Aziz is held in a room "reserved for the dogs". Tarek Aziz "fails and I do not expect that it lives more than one month" because of the continuations of a "cerebral embolism and diseases cardiac", it declared....

A St. Paul woman who locked her 13-year-old daughter naked in a basement dog kennel was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail, a period equal to three days for each day the teenage girl was confined, a prosecutor noted. Ramsey County District Judge Kathleen Gearin pounded her fist on the bench for emphasis as she lectured Deborah Lee Cameron. "We use the phrase, 'You would not treat a dog like this,' " Gearin said. "But you did." Cameron, 34, pleaded guilty in April to one count of unreasonable restraint of a child, a gross misdemeanor. Her boyfriend and co-defendant,...

St. Paul - A man who allegedly put a 13-year-old girl in a dog kennel for days at a time, hit her, read her diary, and strip searched her, was charged this week with unreasonable restraint of a child. Eric Bare, 42, of St. Paul, admitted to child protection workers that he did lock the teenager in the kennel on two different occasions, once for three consecutive days, and once for seven consecutive days. Bare said that he "fixed up the kennel nice" and that it was "a suitable temporary living arrangement." Bare is not the girl's father, but she...