AKRON, Ohio (AP) — The Akron City Council has scrapped legislation that could have imposed jail time on dog owners whose pets bark loudly.

City Council on Monday voted to follow the recommendation of its Public Safety Committee to not approve legislation calling for the increased ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Two German shepherds from the Spokane area will receive a national award from an insurance company after they survived being trapped in a grain silo for 21 days.

Nationwide Insurance offers the Hambone Award to the most unusual insurance claim they receive during a ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Police in Burlington say a dog attacked a 12-year-old girl and a woman at a housing complex.

Audra Gorton tells WCAX-TV she was in her apartment Saturday night ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities say a dog attacked and killed a woman inside her Washington home.

Citing an email from a Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman, news outlets report that the fatal dog attack was reported Sunday evening, and took place indoors.

The exact ...

DENHAM SPRINGS, La. (AP) — A Louisiana family has been reunited with their dog that went missing six years ago thanks to a Mississippi couple who discovered the roaming pup.

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DETROIT (AP) — The city’s long-troubled animal control operation has its third new leader in three years as it grapples with overcrowding and outdated facilities.

The Detroit health department tapped Pittsburgh native Charles Brown in August to head Detroit’s Animal Care and Control ...

GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP) — Owning eight dogs feels like a full-time job for him, but Greenwood County Animal Control officer Joseph Brooks said he wouldn’t trade it for the world.

He grew up around animals. His family always had dogs growing up, and relatives of his had a farm and kept ...

HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark. (AP) — Officials say intruders broke into an eastern Arkansas animal shelter and set several dogs against each other in what a shelter volunteer called “a bloodbath.”

The incident happened Wednesday night at the Humane Society of the Delta in the Mississippi River ...

ALVIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a 2-year-old girl was fatally mauled by her family’s dog in their Houston-area home.

The Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office says deputies went to a home in Alvin on Friday afternoon after getting a 911 call.

At the home, located about 30 miles south ...

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say police officers shot and killed two pit bulls that attacked and bit a man and a child at a New Jersey playground.

Camden County spokesman Dan Keashen says the attack occurred at a Camden playground at about 7 p.m. Friday.

Keashen says arriving ...

MOUNT OLIVE, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a New Jersey couple shot their dog with a BB gun in a botched effort to kill it because they couldn’t afford to care for it.

Animal cruelty charges were recently filed against 26-year-old Keith Ropp, of Mount Olive, and 24-year-old Carly McBride, of ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say the dead dog found skinned and with a tail cut off outside Olympia had been euthanized at the end of its natural life.

The Olympian reports the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities say a teenager is facing adult charges in an armed carjacking that killed a police dog named Fang.

The Florida Times-Union reports ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man who made an unsuccessful bid for state representative has been charged with abusing two small dogs.

The Connecticut Post reports that ...

EVENSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say more than 100 dogs have been rescued from a puppy mill in Tennessee.

Rhea County Animal Control Director Cheyenne Swofford tells news outlets the Yorkies, Chihuahuas and other designer breed small dogs were discovered at a home. She says they were ...

VIDALIA, La. (AP) — A 74-year-old Louisiana woman has died almost a month after being attacked by dogs outside her home.

Vidalia Police Chief Joey Merrill tells the Natchez Democrat that ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The mother of a 2-year-old girl who was fatally mauled by dogs at her father’s home is suing Kansas welfare workers.

The Wichita Eagle reports that the lawsuit filed last month says the Kansas ...

COVENTRY, R.I. (AP) — Police in Coventry, Rhode Island say they are investigating after two malnourished dogs were found in town within the past few days.

Police discovered an emaciated female pit bull inside a vehicle on Monday. That comes after officers found a severely malnourished male ...

HILLSBORO, Mo. (AP) — A missing blind man is safe, thanks to the nose of a 3-year-old black lab mix who sniffed him out.

Ruby was part of a weekend search team looking for the man in Hillsboro, Missouri, 40 miles southwest of St. Louis. The man, who has epilepsy in addition to blindness, ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Peggy Crawford recalls a time 20 years ago while she was working at Springbrook Behavioral Health in Travelers Rest when she encountered a boy who hadn’t spoken in seven years.

A trained canine therapy volunteer, she took her dog to visit the boy and he began ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a 58-year-old woman is dead after being fatally mauled in her home by the family dog.

Police say the husband of Susan Sweeney returned from work Monday night and called 911 after finding her dead in the living room.

Officials say Sweeney’s family had ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A horse, chickens and pooches gathered Oct. 4 outside of Pope Chapel on Fort Bragg to receive blessings.

Hosted by the Saint Michael of the Archangel Catholic Community of Fort Bragg, the annual blessing of the pets commemorates St. Francis of Assisi, the patron ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The head of the Cheyenne Animal Shelter has resigned after pepper spray was used on a dog that wasn’t threatening anyone.

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ALCESTER, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say charges are pending against a rural Union County couple after authorities found neglected dogs, horses and other animals at their home.

Officials also found the skeletal remains of two or three horses and the body of one horse that recently died. ...

NEW CUYAMA, Calif. (AP) — Santa Barbara County authorities rescued a litter of puppies, their mother and another dog from a recently raided illegal marijuana grow in rural Cuyama Valley.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Therapy dogs can bring more than joy and comfort to hospitalized kids. They can also bring stubborn germs.

Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore were suspicious that the dogs might pose an infection risk to patients with weakened immune systems. So they conducted ...

HOMEWOOD, Ala. (AP) — Police in Alabama say around a dozen dogs that had been abandoned when their owner moved out of state have been rescued.

News outlets report officers carried out a search Wednesday after receiving a complaint about several dogs being abandoned at a home in ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Prosecutors have declined to pursue charges against two animal control officers and the CEO of the Cheyenne Animal Shelter in the pepper-spraying of a dog last month.

The Wyoming Tribune Eagle

NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut family has been reunited with their dog five years after the beloved pet went missing.

The Norwich Bulletin reports that Norwich ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say a 2-month-old baby boy was injured by his family’s pit bull in their home.

Police Officer Greg Kraft tells the Los Angeles Times the dog bit the baby ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities say a teenager has been charged in the armed carjacking that killed a police dog named Fang.

News outlets quote the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office as saying a 17-year-old boy is charged with shooting Fang and armed kidnapping. Sheriff’s Office ...

DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Police say a Florida man on a balcony shot and killed a dog with a pellet rifle.

The puppy named Princess was being walked by its owner Saturday night near the Davie apartment building.

According to the

REDMOND, Ore. (AP) — Police cited a man for animal abuse after they say he beat his roommate’s dog to death outside their home in Redmond.

The Oregonian/OregonLive reports ...

FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) — Lexa Kessler is making an 88-county dent in her bucket list.

The 24-year-old Hancock County woman knocked off a major task in early September with a trip to the Geauga County Fair. Over the past four summers, she has visited all 88 county fairs in Ohio, as well as the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Dogs played a role this week at the United Nations.

Dozens of New York police canines helped protect nearly 200 world leaders during the U.N. General Assembly.

They were rewarded with praise from Police Commissioner James O’Neill. He says it’s not an easy job for ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida dog that touched the lid of an electrified container that holds the wiring for street lights during a walk has died.

News outlets report Lynn McDermott took the Great Pyrenees on a walk in the rain Saturday in Sarasota. The around 70-pound (31.75-kilogram) ...

ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 70-year-old Arkansas City man is hospitalized after he was attacked by four dogs in his backyard.

Arkansas City police say in a news release that officers were called to the home Thursday night.

Police Chief Daniel Ward said witnesses reported finding ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The city of St. Paul has agreed to pay $520,000 to a woman who was attacked by a police dog last year as she was taking out her trash, one of her attorneys said.

The decision to pay Desiree Collins for the Sept. 23, 2017, attack comes a month after a federal judge ...

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) — Sierra Vista police say several dogs bit and seriously injured a 9-year-old boy in the yard of the home where the dogs and the boy lived and that responding officers fatally shot three dogs to rescue the child.

According to police, a fourth dog was fatally shot ...