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• Article about Dog Day Afternoons Country Day Prep in today's Boston Globe: The collar of money Country Day Prep is to the dog world what Milton Academy is to the human world. Canines must go through an extensive application process before being admitted.
• In an absolutely disgusting, inhumane overreaction: Chinese county massacres 50,000 dogs. Authorities in the Chinese province of Yunnan ()ordered the slaughter of 50,000 dogs in response to the death of three humans by rabies. Dogs being walked were taken from their owners and beaten on the spot. Also reported in The Guardian, and a translation from Xinhua news service Three out of 300 Dog-Bitten People Dies in SW China. From the Shanghai Yunnan dog cull almost complete (云南牟定扑杀ç� ¬ç±»54429只 ç‹‚ç� ¬ç—…疫情得到控制). Only military and police dogs were allowed to survive.
• Dog breeders say best way is a vial and a trip to vet about the rise of artificial insemination to breed dogs
• Mistrial in fatal S.F. dog mauling Jury deadlocks on two child endangerment charges. Jury deadlocked in a case where a woman was accused of leaving her 12 year old child home alone with two pit bulls. The boy had been left alone in a basement, instructed not to go near the dogs. Earlier in the day he had been bitten by one of the dogs.
• Officer's K-9 is missing. Unnamed six year old German Shepherd was taken from the parking lot of a Home Depot. The dog works with Jeffrey Shively at an undisclosed Department of Defense facility in the San Joaquin Valley of California
• Shocking arrest: His first arrest proved shocking to Bak. Bak, a German Shepherd K-9, was shocked when the suspect he(?) was helping subdue bit into a 220 volt power line while causing a disturbance at a McDonald's restaurant.
  Via Boingboing

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