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		<title>Appeals court allows autism helper dog in class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Illinois appeals court has agreed to allow a central Illinois student to keep his autism helper dog in school. 
The Fourth District Appellate Court sided with the family of Kaleb Drew. They had argued that the boy&#8217;s yellow Labrador retriever is a service animal allowed in schools under state law. 
The boy&#8217;s mother had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dogblog.muttnik.com/?p=947</link>
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		<title>Honda Element &amp; your pooch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Andrew Clark, Globe &#038; Mail
Stopped at a red light, I turn to my right and catch a glimpse of the occupants in the adjacent car. There are two of them. The driver is a middle-aged woman with a glazed expression on her face; her lips drawn into a taut grin, her teeth the colour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dogblog.muttnik.com/?p=938</link>
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		<title>Caring for pets shaped human evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dogs, cats, cows and other domesticated animals may have been vital to human evolution, a new theory suggests. 
The uniquely human habit of taking in and employing animals &#8212; even competitors like wolves &#8212; spurred on human tool-making and language, which have both driven humanity’s success, paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman of Penn State University, says. 
&#8220;Wherever [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dogblog.muttnik.com/?p=936</link>
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		<title>Why city folks treat dogs as their kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A researcher at Indiana University South Bend found that city people tend to treat animals as their children, especially if the animal is a dog. 
&#8220;If you have kids, you have less time to spend with your pets. That&#8217;s part of it, but not the whole story. People who think of their pets as their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dogblog.muttnik.com/?p=934</link>
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		<title>Stem cells for doggies?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Super-expensive pet medical treatments revealed
Stem cell transplants, state-of-the-art image-guided radiation, sophisticated diagnostic procedures to pinpoint everything from cancer to lung disease. New and improved health care for the uninsured or underinsured? Nope. Medical treatment for the nation’s pets, some of whom have a better shot at being healed than people living in the same state. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dogblog.muttnik.com/?p=930</link>
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		<title>Summer park patrols to focus on dog control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pooches in Burnaby parks will have to be on their best behaviour now that city parks staff are patrolling parks as part of a new dog education program approved by the parks commission recently.
Previously, the B.C. SPCA has patrolled parks in the summer—on weekends in May and June and on a rotating five-day schedule July [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dogblog.muttnik.com/?p=927</link>
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		<title>Program teaches troubled youths to teach dogs</title>
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Canine companionship is helping some local kids turn around their troubled pasts at the Macomb County Juvenile Justice Center. 
A program called Teacher&#8217;s Pet has them train dogs taken in by animal control, helping them develop responsibility, empathy and self-esteem &#8212; and, eventually, finding homes for the strays. 
&#8220;The dogs can be frustrating to work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dogblog.muttnik.com/?p=923</link>
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		<title>Give a dog a drink, and don&#8217;t let it overheat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you exercise outside, you know how miserably hot it is. Imagine doing so without having enough water, or being heat-acclimated, or being able to go indoors when you want. Now you have an idea of what your pet might deal with. 
&#8220;They can overheat so quickly,&#8221; says Maura Davies, senior director of communications for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dogblog.muttnik.com/?p=905</link>
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		<title>Paint Thinner Alert for New West</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New West vet issues warning after cats &#8216;tortured&#8217; with paint thinner
A New Westminster family is horrified after their cat was allegedly dipped in paint thinner last week.
Jennifer Szoke said Harley, her two-year-old orange cat, is suffering from a burnt tongue and throat after trying to groom the toxic substance out of his fur.
“I’m just so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dogblog.muttnik.com/?p=899</link>
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		<title>United Pet Group Expands Food Recall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To Include Cat and Dog Products as well
Due to salmonella concerns, United Pet Group of Cincinnati has expanded its recent recall of its Pro-Pet Adult Daily Vitamin tablets for dogs to include additional branded and private label pet care products. The expanded recall, issued July 2, includes more Pro-Pet products as well as various Excel-branded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dogblog.muttnik.com/?p=892</link>
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