A JET-setting dog lover spent 30 hours getting to Sydney - then jumped on the first plane home after learning her dog was missing back in London. Animal lover Kate Dawson had just touched down to start a new life with her fiance when she heard her dog Stella had done a runner from Heathrow Airport. Ms Dawson left her fiance Sam Pritchard-Gordon at the airport and spent $7000 on a ticket for the next flight home to help with the search for the five-year-old pet. The dog is believed to have escaped after airport staff opened her travel kennel to give her a walk before putting her on the plane. The back-to-back long-haul flights had a happy ending for Ms Dawson - a week later the dog turned up in a garden a few kilometres from the airport. read more

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A man picked up Saturday by Minneapolis police for two outstanding warrants is in more trouble with the law after he attempted to choke a police dog, authorities said. Police arrested the suspect after learning he had outstanding warrants in Hennepin County for carrying a gun in public and in Anoka County for fifth-degree domestic assault, said Lt. A police dog tracked the suspect to a nearby house where he was found hiding in the attic. Boldly, the suspect put his hands around the dog as if to break its neck, Huffman said. After the suspect was treated for dog bites, he was booked into the Hennepin County Jail and faces charges of escaping from police custody and assaulting a police K9. read more

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A drunken man from Shenyang, Liaoning, drowned last Tuesday while giving his dog a bath in a river. When the dog slid into the river, the man immediately jumped into the water to save the pet. When some passersby asked if he needed help, the man was too drunk to reply, according to a witness named Xiao Jun said. read more

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ATLANTA (Reuters) - A co-defendant in the dog-fighting case against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has changed his plea to guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, court documents showed on Monday. District Court in Richmond, Virginia, where Vick is due to go on trial on November 26 on charges that he helped run an interstate dog-fighting enterprise known as “Bad Newz Kennels” from early 2001 through April 2007. Co-defendant Tony Taylor, who with Vick and two others pleaded not guilty on Thursday to the charges against him, would likely receive a lesser sentence in exchange for his cooperation with the government. According to a grand jury indictment, the dog-fighting enterprise was based at a property in Smithfield, Virginia, that was owned by Vick. The NFL asked him not to attend preseason training with the Falcons while it conducts a review of the indictment, and athletic clothing makers Reebok and Nike have suspended sales of products endorsed by Vick. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a civil rights group, said on Monday that Vick, who is black, had been unfairly demonized. read more

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They noted items that, when considered in toto, signaled dogfighting, such as pry bars (used to break a dog’s hold during a fight), electronic treadmills (for conditioning), rape stands (a necessity when you breed dogs whose overriding impulse is to eviscerate their own kind, regardless of what their hormones say) and bloodstained carpeting, which needs no explanation. Before a fight, the dogs were bathed - presumably by their opponent’s owner - to ensure their coats were not doused with substances, such as kerosene or narcotics, that would affect the other dog. For all the terrible things said about the “true nature” of pit bulls, if only this inherent appreciation for human contact - without which a fighting dog cannot be fought - would get some traction. While the anger is understandable, it also should be channeled into efforts to ensure that dogfighting by anyone - not just a sports celebrity - receives the kind of public outcry and demands for justice that Vick has unleashed. read more

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Merger costs, flat sales, and a strong euro contributed to a second-quarter loss for Alcatel-Lucent. Merger costs, flat sales and a strong euro contributed to a second-quarter net loss at Alcatel-Lucent SA. Sales of equipment in the highly competitive wireless infrastructure market, for instance, dipped 8 percent to ,1. One bright spot was enterprise revenue, including voice and data services to businesses, which increased 5 percent to ,376 million, from ,368 million. EarthLink, selected to build San Francisco’s wireless network, asks for delay and is scaling back national municipal Wi-Fi plans. read more

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A man picked up by Minneapolis police on two outstanding warrants is in more trouble with the law after he attempted to choke a police dog, authorities said. Police arrested the suspect after learning he had outstanding warrants in Hennepin County in connection with carrying a gun in public and in Anoka County on fifth-degree domestic assault, said Lt. A police dog tracked the suspect to a nearby house, where he was hiding in the attic. The suspect put his hands around the dog as if to break its neck, Huffman said. After the suspect was treated for dog bites, he was booked into the Hennepin County jail. He could be charged with escaping police custody and assaulting a police dog. read more

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