'Not all heroes are human': French police dog killed in raid
A police dog named "Diesel" was killed during a police raid on Wednesday that targeted the suspected mastermind of deadly terror attacks in Paris. On social media, the hashtag #JeSuisChien, which means "I am dog," began trending worldwide on Twitter as …
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Dog serving Oregon school
Assistance Dogs for Achieving Independence donated the dog to the school. The Sylvania nonprofit trains and places assistance dogs with people who need them. The group sometimes gives dogs to schools too, and Violet was more fitting for a school.
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Stephen Colbert invited a cat circus onto the Late Show. Adorable laziness ensued.
It is, in other words, exactly what you'd expect to happen if you tried to cajole a bunch of cats into doing tricks on late-night television. It's as if they're saying, sure, they could perform these tricks, like a bunch of dogs, but why would they …
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Are you a cat lady? Seattle area has 2nd-highest number
As a forty-something single woman living alone with a cat, Jeanine Foucher is well aware of the negative stereotypes conjured up by that particular coexistence: a frumpy homebody without many friends — a spinster, even — the cliché of the “cat lady.”.
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