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A man feared for his life when his rescue dog attacked him in a horrifying 45-minute ordeal, leaving him with no choice but to strangle the animal. Matt Porter was left with horrific injuries, including losing the use of one hand, following the unexpected and brutal attack. While shaving, Matt's Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Karma, suddenly lunged at him, biting him over 70 times on both arms. Fearing he would bleed to death after realising he couldn't use either hand, he was forced to use his forearms to end her life. Before losing consciousness due to blood loss, he managed to...

"A part-beagle named Buddy didn't wait for an invitation to see his 85-year-old master at a Texas hospital. The dog hitched a ride on the outside of an ambulance transporting his owner.....The ambulance had been driving for about 20 miles before another motorist flagged down the driver to say there was a dog on the side step...... ..... Buddy

James Symington is about to find out whether you can clone heroism. The retired Canadian police officer – who took part in the rescue operation after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York City – is scheduled to take possession Wednesday of five puppies cloned using DNA from his beloved late German shepherd Trakr, the rescue dog credited with finding the last survivor in the smoking rubble of Ground Zero. Symington, who won the opportunity to have Trakr cloned in an essay contest last year, first met his new pups in an emotional encounter on June 14. "They're...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Is Bo a rescued dog or not? Did President Obama keep or break a campaign promise in picking the purebred as the family's new pet? The twists and turns of the Portuguese water dog's route to the White House make for the kind of intrigue that political junkies and the highly opinionated dog world delight in. Barack Obama and his wife Michelle said during the presidential campaign that they had promised their two girls a dog after the election. The Obamas repeatedly said they wanted it to be a rescued dog such as one from a shelter....

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Sometimes rescuers need to be rescued, too. Candace Jennings was sleeping on the couch when she was nudged awake by her dog, Anna, to find her mobile home engulfed in flames early Thanksgiving Day. The blond heeler, an abused stray dog Jennings had adopted from an animal shelter, whined and howled until they ran outside. "I had an awful headache. The place was filled with smoke," she told the Idaho Statesman for a story published Saturday. But Jennings said she ran back into her burning home to save some items. "I'm a janitor in town," she...

FORT WORTH -- It was a risky job.The first deployment for Kinsey, a black Labrador with Texas Task Force One -- a search-and-rescue team with the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- was to ground zero after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks."The first and only thought when I saw the pile was 'My dog is going to die,' and I was scared to death, but we had to try to find somebody," handler Bob Deeds said. "You lean over, you kiss them in the face, you give them the search command, and you go and do it."Deeds and Kinsey made it...