150 Chihuahuas looking for homes

Marin Independent Journal - About 150 teacup Chihuahua puppies arrived Friday night at the Marin Humane Society in Novato, where they will get ready for adoption. The dogs were rescued from a breeding operation in Tucson, Ariz., where an elderly couple was housing nearly 800
Source: www.marinij.com

Lightning hits home, kills pet
Shelby Star - SHELBY - Lightning struck a mobile home Saturday, gutting the home and killing the longtime canine companion of the home’s elderly owner. Seventy-year-old Evelyn Turner escaped her home at 135 Dyer Drive without any injuries but her pet Chihuahua
Source: www.shelbystar.com

Ju rez is the newest narcotics war zone
San Antonio Express News - CHIHUAHUA, Mexico The latest hot zone in the country’s unending drug wars is El Paso’s neighbor, Ciudad Ju rez. The border city has claimed the bulk of Chihuahua state’s nation-leading 150 gangland slayings in the first 21/2 months of the year
Source: www.mysanantonio.com

Greening your purse

Salon - The study added, “No protective effect of dogs as domestic pets was observed.” Meooow. How do you like them apples, chihuahua Also, many male priests have inherited their jobs, and have not necessarily received formal training, the article reports
Source: www.salon.com

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Mexico police caught between drug crackdown, cartels
AZCentral.com - A police officer in the northern city of Chihuahua earns an average salary of $650 a month, according to the state government College degrees are rarely required, and most auxiliary police get only a few weeks of academy training, Villalobos said.
Source: www.azcentral.com

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Detroit Free Press - Travel — If you plan to be on the move a lot with a dog, you might want a Chihuahua. Small and easygoing — dogs suitable for Show-goers will be able to meet with breeders and the dog owners and learn about breeds’ characteristics, care, health More

Herald Tribune - The same things happen with backyard breeders, only not to the same extent. I am not into the whole pedigreed-dog thing, but If you had ever seen a Chihuahua who had been bred so many times her insides were coming outside and she was then dumped at a More

Sioux City Journal - Council members listened at several meetings to dog owners, breeders and trainers who educated them on the latest thinking If you’ve got a dog you think is dangerous, I don’t care if its a Chihuahua or a German shepherd, report it,” he said. “We’ll More

KY3 NEWS INVESTIGATION: Some animal facilities go years between

KYTV - It looks like a 12-year-old rottweiler s hips instead of a 1-year-old Chihuahua hips, said Dr. Heath Wiseman, a The department’s own records show inspectors haven’t been to one breeder in Greene County since January 2006. Records More

Globe and Mail - have a Standard Poodle who we brought home as an eight week puppy, our family having been thoroughly vetted by her breeder Hi Jim, I had the same worries about my baby coming into a home with a pug/chihuahua (with an attitude; the kind who does not More

Columbia Daily Tribune - single day,” said shelter relations coordinator Heather Duren, adding that the shelter also has been in contact with Chihuahua Earlier this week, the shelter took in 13 dogs from a breeder in Sedalia. Matt Rold, an investigator for the Missouri More

Rocky Mountain News - Laura Hagan jumps for joy as she exits Arvada Municipal Court on Wednesday with attorney Joe Lazzara. A judge ruled that her dog, Rolo, who bit a neighbor last year, could return home. George Kochaniec Jr. / The Rocky Laura Hagan visited Rolo at the More