By David WatkinsonA COUPLE have been fined after admitting illegally docking their pet dog's tail.The offence came to light after Victoria Walmesley, 22, and Leon Warner, 21, of Chapel Street, Rishton, sold the chocolate-coloured Doberman pup in November 2005.Accrington...

BY DENISE FLAIM Newsday Staff WriterThe recent spate of dog attacks -- including a rottweiler in East Meadow that mauled a 4-year-old and a pit bull in Huntington Station that had to be shot by police before he could be subdued -- begs the question of whether...

by Julia Corcoran (Columbia News Service)NEW YORK -- When Buddha, a robust blue Doberman with a forceful personality, suffered a herniated disc, she suddenly lost the ability to use her rear legs and resorted to dragging herself around on the floor. Buddha's...

By HENRY M. LOPEZ | The New Mexican For most of the year-and-a-half she’s lived in Santa Fe, Robin Morehouse steered clear of Frank Ortiz Park, where pooches are allowed to run leash-free. But a trio of tickets totaling about $250 for playing ball with her...

Orlando SentinelORLANDO -- Snoopy, a 6-month-old German shepherd, was killed early Monday while guarding a construction yard in west Orlando.The dog was shot with a semi-automatic pistol by someone trying to break into T&T Pipeline on Ferguson Drive, according...

By Ivonne D'Amato (Centre Daily)CENTRE HALL -- If Princess, a 6-year-old black Lab mix with a painful ear condition, had arrived at the Centre Hall SPCA a year ago, she likely would have been euthanized.But a lot has changed at the shelter since last summer,...

by MARIA BUCCIFERRO, For The SaratogianThe village's proposal to ban specific breeds -- pit bulls, Rottweilers, chow chows and Doberman pinschers -- was dropped after dog owners and dog advocacy groups protested during the first of two public hearings, and...

By DAKOTAH M. DAVIS (Winfield Courier)UDALL A rural Udall man has been ordered by authorities this week to dispose of a pit bull dog that killed two other dogs belonging to his neighbors, a Cowley County Sheriff’s Department report said today. Michael Carter,...

By Miranda Hitti (Fox News)To curb kids’ risk of dog bites, a new study recommends that parents delay getting dogs until kids are old enough to go to school. ”Any dog may attack,” write the researchers. They included Johannes Schalamon, MD, of the pediatric...

By Matt Elofson -Robesonian - Staff writerROWLAND - Despite a trial that had several starts and stops over five weeks, when testimony had ended, it took a judge only a few minutes to find a Maxton man guilty of animal cruelty.District Court Judge Greg Bell...