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N.C. Law Allows Group to Sue over Alleged Dog Abuse - first aired on 5/25/05. Leaders of a California animal rights group have traveled to North Carolina to take advantage of a state law allowing civil suits for animal abuse cases. The group is suing breeders it says are mistreating dogs. Leoneda Inge of member station WUNC reports. More on this story.
Nina Nastasia: 'Dogs' - music - as you listen to "The Long Walk" think of my little whippet Lucy. "Stormy Weather" was written for Heather Shorthair.
Former Cop Turns Pet Detective to Track Lost Pets (20 minutes) with Terry Gross
Fresh Air from WHYY, April 22, 2005 · Kathy Albrecht is a former police officer who used to work with search and rescue dogs. She now searches for lost pets using her specially trained bloodhounds, and a Weimeraner. Along the way she is developing data about how lost animals behave, and how to best find them.
Albrecht also founded and is executive director of the non-profit National Center for Missing Pets in San Jose, CA. (This story was originally broadcast on May 24, 2004.)
Previous stories - all good
Dog Prodigy Gives New Meaning to Language
Border Collie Quick to Learn and Remember New Words
Use of Dogs as Tools for Interrogation
Home Insurers Leery of Dog Owners
Austrian Animal Rights - new laws which affect dogs, etc.
Chicago's Firehouse Dogs
Do Dogs Laugh? - serious research on this topic
Genetics And Evolution Of The Dog
Michael Feldman's Whad'YaKnow?: Guest interview with Stanley Coren, author of “The Pawprints of History.” Napoleon, Nixon, Trudeau, and Freud, among millions of others, have gone to the dogs at some point. The Einstein of dogs could count to five and had a vocabulary of about 350 words, but they were in German. The Dog is always good for sympathy when the back is hurting, too. 1st hour, probably part B.
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