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Dog bites 4-year-old Cache boy in face

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, April 19, 2013 - 9:32am

LOGAN — A Hyde Park man has been cited and his dog impounded for biting a 4-year-old boy in the face.

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Dog wakes wife to save stricken husband

Judith McGinnis Wichita Falls Times Record

Last updated Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 6:01pm

WICHITA FALLS, Texas — Bruce Martin was watching movies in the middle of the night when he suffered a massive heart attack. His dog Clyde nudged him and, getting no response, trotted into the bedroom to awaken Bruce’s wife,Mitch.

The Martins believe that Clyde, a 5-year-old pit bull/golden retriever mix, saved Bruce’s life.

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Dan Marocchi stands with his wife, Roxanne, near where their German shepherd, Max (inset, right), was shot by an Ogden officer Sunday. The Australian shepherd mix at left has been missing since the incident. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Man refutes Ogden police claims in fatal shooting of German shepherd

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, March 5, 2013 - 7:20am

OGDEN — A pet owner and Ogden police are at odds over details in Sunday’s fatal shooting of a dog by a law officer.

Dan Marocchi said his 2-year-old German shepherd, named Max, never attacked the officer and didn’t deserve to die.

“The Ogden Police Department is trying to cover up a bad shooting,” he said Monday.

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Ivan, a 3-year-old German Shepard police dog, sits under the control of his handler, Police Lt. John Pickles, outside the Essex County Correctional Facility in Middleton, Mass. Monday, March 4, 2013. Police say Ivan was searching for a gun in a snowbank and accidentally pulled the trigger with his paw, firing the weapon. No humans —or dogs — were hurt. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Now police dogs are shooting guns

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 4, 2013 - 6:04pm

LAWRENCE, Mass. -- Police say a dog searching for a gun in a snowbank accidentally pulled the trigger with its paw, firing the weapon.

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Officer shoots dog at Ogden residence

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 4, 2013 - 9:14am

OGDEN — Police are investigating an officer shooting of a dog at a residence.

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Travis Cain leads Hunter through a hotel room to inspect for bedbugs Wednesday. The Ogden hotel uses bedbug-sniffing dogs as part of its integrated pest-management program. Mobile bedbugs can be found anywhere, even high-end hotels. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Beagle's nose knows where bedbugs are in Top of Utah

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, February 3, 2013 - 11:15am

OGDEN — Bedbugs do bite.

Because of that, Hunter, a uniquely trained 2-year-old bedbug-sniffing beagle, is finding steady work in the Top of Utah.

No one would know it at a glance — the truck Hunter rides in to appointments has no markings to indicate the dog is a bedbug hunter. But the 20-pound pooch is not an exterminator.

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Alan's owner tweeted this photograph, the last she took before his death. Credit: Twitter / @jenniferrosina

Twitter-famous British dachshund killed in revolving-door jam

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 3:05pm

LONDON -- British high-society magazine Tatler is mourning its beloved office dog, Alan, who died in a revolving-door accident.

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Man arrested three times in 2 days after calling cops twice, busting down his motel room door

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, December 30, 2012 - 12:04am

RIVERDALE — It was not a good pre-Christmas weekend for Christopher Kenneth Sorensen and Brandon Lee Smith.

They landed in jail in time for the holidays, with Sorensen arrested three times in a two-day period.

There’s even a puppy involved.

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Sawyer Hamilton, with his mother, Kandace, pets his service dog, Topper, after a trip to the library in Spanish Fork, Utah, on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. Hamilton, 15, suffers from autism but has been able to lead a normal life thanks, in large part, to help from his service dog. (AP Photo/The Daily Herald, Wayne E Donnelly)

Utah County boy with autism has service dog by his side

Spenser Heaps Provo Daily Herald

Last updated Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 2:38pm

SPANISH FORK — When Sawyer Hamilton gets off the bus on a Friday afternoon in November, he makes a beeline for his dog, Topper, waiting patiently on the sidewalk. Dropping his backpack to the ground, he excitedly calls Topper’s name over and over, bends down to pet his companion and receives ample licks to the face in return.

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Marc Payet pulls his dog Willie in a wagon while his other dog, Shorti, walks in front of him around the 20th Street pond in Ogden on Tuesday, November 20, 2012. Willie has only three legs and recently broke one of them. Payet is trying to earn enough money to pay a veterinarian for his dog's surgery. (KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner)

Ogden man raising funds to pay for surgery after dog breaks 1 of its 3 legs

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 3:59pm

OGDEN — Marc Payet could only hope for a medical and financial miracle as he walked his beloved dogs, pulling Willie in a wagon as Shorti trotted along to the side.

Willie, a three-legged German shepherd mix, had recently broken his right front leg, the only leg on that side of his body.

The day before Thanksgiving, Willie received a complex surgery from orthopedic veterinarian Dale Smith, of Salt Lake City. Now Payet, a devoted dog-lover, is hoping to raise funds to pay back the doctor.

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Call from Orem ’burglar’ actually came from dog

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, October 5, 2012 - 6:07am

OREM — Policesay a man who thought he was getting a call from a burglar had actually gotten a call from his dog.

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Alexis Lorenz holds her 7-year-old beagle named Brandi, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 in Burlington County. Brandi got loose from her harness during a walk along the Burlington Riverfront Promenade Friday night and leaped off of the Burlington Bristol Bridge, surviving a 70-foot fall. (AP Photo/Camden Courier-Post, Douglas Bovitt)

Brandi the beagle survives 70-foot fall from bridge

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 11:51am

BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A beagle named Brandi survived a 70-foot fall from a New Jersey bridge.

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Rescue dog helps rescue dog

Jonathan D. Silver Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last updated Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 10:59am

PITTSBURGH — Behind every great dog story is an owner, and in the case of an injured, underweight mutt rescued this week from a garbage-can prison in a vacant lot, that owner is Peter Kreuthmeier.

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