Partying penguins parade in pageant
News.com.au – into a world of fun and fantasy, to be seen by more than 250,000 people. The pageant will begin at 8.30pm from St Georges Terrace, west of Barrack Street and will feature 18 bands, 40 floats and wheel sets, multi-cultural groups, clowns, camels, dogs

The day Derek O’Dell decided not to die
Times Online – She has been in countries, Sierra Leone, for instance, where there are more guns than dogs. But it has taken her a long time to get used to the guns in America. “In rural areas I understand it. But it’s become ludicrous. People have arsenals.”

Bush’s proposed Homeland Security cut does favor for Osama bin Laden
New York Daily News – And then there is the $7,348 grant to Columbus, Ohio, to buy 11 bulletproof vests for dogs. “These aren’t wooly sweaters we bought them to walk in the park,” a Columbus fire official was quoted as saying in defense of the grant. “These are flak vests

Pa. kennel turns over 80 purebred dogs after inspection
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – SLATINGTON, Pa. — A Lehigh County kennel has turned over 80 purebred dogs to animal shelters. The owners of Dragonsden Kennels in Washington Township surrendered them after inspectors found dozens of malnourished dogs in a basement. The Animal