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...states to permit dog racing inside its borders, but it does so with a healthy dose of oversight. For example, since 2001, state law has mandated that a veterinarian be on duty to examine greyhounds before and after each race, that dog droppings must be removed daily from the kennel area, and that the state racing commission should address every complaint of greyhound abuse. Between 2005 and 2006, just 0.15 percent of this state’s racing dogs left the track with an injury—a proportion more than ten times smaller than were injured in girls?...
...hard enough to pick the right dog even if you're not the First Family. So the American Kennel Club (AKC), hoping to help usher the 23rd purebred dog into the White House, is conducting a survey (you can vote at presidentialpup.com before Aug. 19). Since the Obama girls have allergies, the AKC has limited the ballot to five hypoallergenic breeds. It suggests that the bichon frise's history as companion to French noblemen would qualify the breed for the White House, but I'm not sure that's the image Obama's looking for. It commends the miniature schnauzer...
...ages that saw David smite Goliath, a presidential campaign in which humility has all the momentum, since so many have been so wrong about so much. So it was the natural time for the true under-dog to have his moment as well, at the 132nd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, where tuxedoed judges bearing shiny trophies descended on Uno, the merry little beagle that became the first of his kind to win Best in Show, ever...
...Weiss laughs when asked if the descriptors are part spin - "Free Spirit" as a euphemism for "Fence Jumper," for example. "They are positive," she admits, compared with kennel cards that in the past would stress the negative, saying things like "Runs away," "Hates cats," and the always-cheerful "Watch your hands...
...Indeed, despite Lucky and Flo's admirable efforts, there's only so much a single pair of pups can do. "To really investigate every nook and cranny of K.L., you'd need a whole kennel of these dogs," says Allan Miller, head of AJ Miller Consulting, a professional corporate investigator based in the Malaysian capital who spends one-third of his time on intellectual-property issues. "To say that [Lucky and Flo] really made a huge difference borders on the ludicrous. It's more publicity hype than anything else." Miller notes that police crackdowns come and go, but pirated...