Dog Daily News

The best canine news and features, paw-picked by our staff of intrepid news hounds

We at Dog Daily News are excited to roll out our new daily feature, Today’s Top Dog Stories. My small staff and I (Yes, I now have a staff! I’ll post a page on them soon.) will paw-pick the very best dog-related news and features every day for your reading pleasure.

You’ll no longer have to spend time poring through the internet sniffing for dog news among stories about hot dogs and dog days of summer and Blue Dog Democrats and a politician’s dogged determination. We’ll do the work, and use our collective canine smarts to present you with the best daily reading about your favorite species — complete with our capsule opinion for each story.

And now for our very first Top Dog Stories. Since we are in Beta mode (a term familiar to many of our dog readers and my personal assistant, Jasper), we have picked just three today. If our site doesn’t crash and burn, we’ll higlight more stories tomorrow.

Bo settling into life on Capitol Hill – Go, Bo, go! See Bo run! We’re only slightly jealous of the First Dog. He eats the presidents shoes, and is still adored by millions. And he gets to walk with the president most nights. Some of our staff barely get to use the doggy door most nights. Still, an entertaining story by ABC News.

The victim and a protector

Historic trial for dog rapist – OK, this is pretty gross. But we’re glad to see that India is going after the man who is alleged to have forced himself on a poor, defenseless dog. (We are amused by the way the article calls it “patently non-consensual sex.” If the dog had been found with a cigarette and a cocktail, would things be going differently?)

Deputy: Dog bit off baby’s toes while mom slept - While her baby slept just feet away from her in the same room, the pit bull that Robie Lynn Jenkins, and her boyfriend, Tremayne Spillman, were babysitting munched the toes off her infant. Mom says she didn’t discover that the little piggies had really gone to market until she was diapering her baby the next day. What a class establishment that must be.