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By Melissa Bell for the Washington Post
Rosemary and John Yun were looking to adopt.
For months, the Ellicott City couple waited. They filled out applications asking about their neighborhood, their jobs and their daily routines; prepped their home before an agency checked in on them; asked friends to provide references; and visited with foster families where they were told they were not the only couple in contention. They hoped they wouldn’t be disappointed yet again.
Finally, one day last fall, the phone call came: Benji, a mix terrier, could join the Yun family.
The Yuns, who are now adopting a child from Korea, would joke that looking for Benji “was just as hard as finding a human baby,” said Rosemary, 38. But the dog was worth the trouble. “He’s so smart; he’s super cute; he’s just a great dog,” said the biotech company manager.
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She may have been a mongrel, but in the finest tradition of seafaring, this old sea dog went down with her ship.
And there she stayed, on the seabed – for the next four and half centuries.
The unfortunate hound was on board Henry VIII’s flagship Mary Rose when the ill-fated warship sank to the bottom of the Solent on July 19, 1545.
The dog, now preserved as an almost complete canine skeleton, acquired the nickname Hatch after divers discovered her remains near the sliding hatch door of the Mary Rose’s carpenter’s cabin.
Experts believe the hound, estimated to have been between 18 months and two years old, earned her keep as the ship’s ratter – superstitious Tudor seafarers did not have cats on board ship as they were thought to bring bad luck.
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Minnow, who was used as a "bait dog" in a busted dog-fighting ring, has been staying at Kent County Humane Society undergoing obedience and social training.
By John Agar for The Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS — The little black dog — a terrier mix — spent most of her life terrified, locked in a small cage as a “bait dog” to train fighting pit bulls.
Tethered to a treadmill, pit bulls would try to attack the dog just beyond their reach.
“Her life in that atmosphere, was probably — gosh, I can’t even explain it — it would have been constant fear,” Dr. Wendy Swift, medical director at Humane Society of Kent County, said Wednesday.
Now nicknamed “Minnow, the playful, friendly dog is one of the most sought-after adoptees at the shelter.
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By O. Kay Henderson for RadioIowa.com
Governor Chet Culver has signed a bill into law that immediately allows for state inspections of commercial dog kennels that draw public complaints.
Breeders who are raising four or more dogs would have to pay a new licensing fee and register with the state. Culver calls that a “seal of approval”which reputable breeders can present to families hoping to adopt a pet.
“Providing assurance to families that the pets they adopt are healthy, clean and have been raised humanely,” Culver said. According to Culver, the “overwhelming majority” of dog breeders, pet stores and animal shelters have “absolutely nothing to fear” from this legislation.
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By Brian McVicar For The Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — A federal judge on Tuesday granted the Humane Society of Kent County custody of 11 pit bulls seized in a dogfighting bust, a ruling expected to make the animals eligible for adoption.
The decision, handed down by U.S. District Judge David Lawson in Detroit, ends the U.S. attorney’s office bid to euthanize the dogs, which were seized last summer after agents broke up a dogfighting ring in eastern Michigan.
The Humane Society filed an affidavit in February saying it disagreed with the federal government’s claim that Michigan law bars the dogs from being adopted.
More than 40 dogs were apprehended in the raid and moved to shelters in Kent, Ingham and Lenawee counties. Lawson’s ruling doesn’t extend to two “champion fighting dogs,” which were captured in the raid and currently are housed at the Humane Society of Kent County.
It could take a couple weeks before the 11 pit bulls are eligible for adoption, said Karen Terpstra, the society’s executive director.
“We will definitely be more stringent in our adoption policy for these dogs,” she said, noting they will be looking for owners familiar with the breed.
The U.S. Agriculture Department, which investigated the dogfighting case, said the dogs are highly susceptible to disease and defects because of how they were bred.
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By Emily Friedlander for The Wall Street Journal
The news today that the estate of real-estate baroness Leona Helmsley has signed a deal to sell a deal to sell one of its trophy properties–the Helmsley Carlton House on Manhattan’s East Side-raises many interesting issues about the commercial real estate market.
The $170 million sale marks the first deal the estate—whose mandate is to liquidate all the holdings—has brought to the market. It also shows that demand for stabilized and quality properties is increasing, as the WSJ’s Lingling Wei writes.
But perhaps the most interesting question: What happened to that dog? The canine in question is Trouble Helmsley, the beloved Maltese poodle left behind by the late Leona Helmsley who died in 2007.
Trouble initially inherited a $12 million trust fund, which was later reduced to $2 million by a Manhattan judge in 2008, at the request of Trouble’s trustees. (The remainder went to charity.)
That’s “enough money to pay for Trouble’s maintenance and welfare at the highest standards of care for more than 10 years, which is more that twice her reasonably anticipated life expectancy,” said the general manager of the Helmsley Sandcastle Hotel, where the dog now resides, in an affidavit.
Life is good for Trouble, infamously dubbed “rich bitch,” by the NY Post: “Trouble is no trouble. She is alive and well and thriving,” says Howard Rubenstein, the spokesman for the Helmsley estate.
The dog’s security costs the Helmsley estate $100,000 a year.
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