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State and Local News
Conditions surrounding canine initiate controversy
The email from an organization called Hand4paws howls for attention: "URGENT ACTION NEEDED! MAKE CALLS! RESCUE THE DOGS!" it commands. "NO FOOD/ NO WATER/ CHAINED & ABUSED!"
Attached is a picture of a black dog, eyes hooded and intent, focused on whoever is holding the camera. The dog strains a...
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Rabid fox darted out of bushes, attacked woman...
A woman walking her dog in east Allentown late Tuesday morning thought she saw a small, reddish dog dart out of the bushes near an apartment complex.
Until she saw its teeth and tail.
By then, it was too late.
The fox sunk its teeth into her ankle. The woman grabbed the animal with her right hand...
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Pet adoption tax credit comes within one vote...
Legislation to create the first-in-the-nation tax credit for adopting a shelter pet came within a hair's breadth of passing the Pennsylvania state House on Tuesday.
The bill, offered as an amendment to tax code legislation by Rep. Jesse White (D., Allegheny), was...
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Dog Breeder Loses Case Over 11 Seized Bassets...
A dog breeder who says animal-welfare officers "decimated" her pack of 23 prized basset hounds cannot sue, a federal judge ruled.
Wendy Willard claimed in July 2011 that the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and two of its officers trampled her civi...
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Officials, animal advocates clash over lax dog-law enforcement...
An admission by state agriculture officials Wednesday that fewer than half the large breeding kennels in Pennsylvania were meeting the full requirements of the 2008 dog law and that the state had decided not to enforce some provisions of the law touched off a series of heated exchanges betwee...
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Diamond Pet Foods recalls batch of dry dog...
Salmonella concerns prompted Missouri-based Diamond Pet Foods to recall a second batch of dry dog food produced at a South Carolina plant where production has been suspended, the company announced Thursday.
The plant in Gaston, S.C., is the same one that made mold-contaminated food that...
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