Brand New From DogMagazine.net – The Daily K9

As of today (Monday 12th Jan) we’re trialling a new service.

Every lunch time we’ll gather together a list of 9 dog news stories making headlines around the world and put them all here for your clicking pleasure. (See what we did with that? 9 stories as in K9, like K9 Magazine? Clever? No, OK – easy to remember though, for us!)

It’s hardly groundbreaking as new media innovation goes but we’ve never tried it before.

It’s a pretty simple concept really, if we can save you time by sniffing out these little news nuggets ourselves then that’s a good enough reason for us. Enjoy.

The Daily K9 – January 12th, 2009

A dog smuggled into an Essex port is to be trained by a national charity to help deaf people.

Why the Labradoodle is favourite to be First Dog: Ever since Barack Obama promised his daughters a puppy in his presidential acceptance speech, speculation has been rife over what breed the family would choose.

Animal welfare experts hot under the collar over dogs in coats: They come in various shapes, sizes and colours and allow you to dress your dog in a hoody, a pirate costume or even an Elvis-style jumpsuit. But the growing trend for dog owners to clothe their pets has led to warnings from animal welfare experts who say it could be causing the animals to overheat.

Waiting lists at dog rescue centres double: Dog rescue centres have waiting lists of up to six months to take in new animals – twice the normal waiting time – as the numbers abandoned this winter increase. Dogs Trust has 17 centres around the country which are all full. At its bases in Leeds and west London, the waiting list for people to leave animals there has grown to six months. The delay is normally just three months.

Fighting like cats and dogs? Not a bit of it!: For most dogs, it would be temptation beyond endurance. But for Yoko the labrador, being teased by a cat is all in a day’s work. Sixteen-month-old Yoko is a pupil at the Guide Dogs charity’s training school, where Leo the tabby is a key member of staff.

Israel sends in dogs of war: The brave animals are used to probe suspected Hamas hideouts while troops wait outside in tanks. Handlers give the creatures commands via radios on their collars. Information is then relayed back to command centres by cameras and hi-tech listening devices carried by the dogs.

How to cut the cost of pet food: Can you spend less on pet food and still keep them happy and healthy? In the midst of the economic doom and gloom, many of us are looking for ways to reduce our weekly outgoings and attention may turn to the cost of our furry friends. Short of taking Max to the local pet shelter, is it possible to cut the amount of money we spend on our beloved pets?

Dogs’ freedom set to be muzzled in safety crackdown: Dog owners are set to be banned from letting their pets off the lead in public in a health and safety crackdown. Animal lovers are furious at the moves which would see a blanket ban on dogs running free in public open spaces except for in a handful of designated dog exercise zones.

PETA responds to BBC filmmaker’s “crackpots” comment: Jemima Harrison, the filmmaker whose controversial documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed led the BBC to drop Crufts from its airwaves, is upset (to say the least) with PETA.  The animal rights group, she says, “devalues and marginalises” her film by using it as ammunition against Westminster, America’s most prestigious dog show.

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