Racial Tension Over Martin Luther King Dog Park in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS - The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is considering putting an off-leash dog area in Martin Luther King Park, and it’s stirring up heavy emotions on both sides. It’s a memorial park and some believe having a dog park there is disrespectful to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Yet, the controversy is so typical of others lately – who decides what public spaces become sacred ground and what does that really mean for all of us?

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Video of Dog Swinging in Child's Swing

This video is for the dog lovers out there. I have seen dogs do some pretty strange and interesting things, but when I saw the way this dog enjoyed swinging in a child's swing, I had to share it with you all.follow this link to see that, Dog that loves swinging on a child's swing

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Jogger Encircled, Attacked By Dogs

MOCKSVILLE, N.C. -- A Mocksville man is recovering from several bite wounds and scratches after being attacked by three boxers while he was jogging Sunday evening... ...The dogs' owner, Ralph Kimery, told WXII's Jermont Terry that the dogs have never been vicious before. The dogs were unleashed in the back yard while his wife was outside, Kimery said. He said he had no idea why the dogs decided to attack, adding that the dogs frequently play with his grandchildren and haven't attacked on other days when Potts has run by.

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Baby bitten 100 times by pet dingo-cross ( Australia )

A BABY girl mauled by her family's pet dingo-cross dog suffered more than 100 bite wounds, a doctor has told an inquest. Twenty-two-month-old Kara Compton's injuries were described by two senior nurses on Tuesday as the most horrific they've seen. Kara was in bed in her family's home at Bunyip, in Victoria's east, when the dog climbed onto her bed and mauled her. She was found by her father and taken by ambulance to Dandenong Hospital, but went into cardiac arrest and died.

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Boy, 14, paddles to dog's rescue in Liberty Bay [Washington]

POULSBO — Neighbors are giving 14-year-old Kohl Serwold a hero's welcome after he rescued his dog from drowning last week. Kali, a 3-year-old Golden Retriever who often plays in the waters near the Serwold's Scandia home, swam nearly 400 yards into Liberty Bay chasing two seals last Thursday. Neighbors said the tide was high and the seals were circling the dog, drawing her farther from shore. Several of them called the dog back, but she kept swimming. Serwold was mowing the lawn when he noticed the canine swimming away. "It was farther than normal so I started calling her. She...

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