For Sam Lang, happiness is briars, dogs and little birds. Growing up in south Georgia, quail hunting was what his family did for recreation.

NEW YORK (AP) _ A dog out for a walk with his owner died after being electrocuted by stray current running underneath the sidewalk. Danny Kapilian was walking the dog, Barkis, in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn on Wednesday when the dog "suddenly got very agitated," Kapilian said.

NEW YORK — When he was a boy, Hiram Stewart took a bus to Virginia, put a puppy in a paper bag and cradled it all the way home to New Orleans.

OXFORD, N.C. -- A Granville County man faces charges after authorities say his pit bull attacked a jogger. Mary Gill, 25, said she was out on an early-morning run when the dog attacked her.

Now that the weather has broken out of the recent cold snap, families looking for a cabin-fever cure can head outdoors for a day of free fun.

LOS ANGELES - B.B. King's dog, Lucille, has disappeared, and the legendary bluesman is offering an autographed copy of one of his signature "Lucille" guitars in an effort to get her back.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Hundreds of police officers stood at attention as a funeral for one of their own was punctuated by howls and yips.

The new designer pug-beagle mix, called a "puggle," is at the top of the doggy list this year. The top reason:They are so darn cute.

A newly graduated York Region Police rookie is being credited for helping save the life of an Alzheimer's patient who was minutes from freezing to death behind a Markham grocery store.

With two clicks of the camera, long-haired Luvie was all but done with his photo shoot. He sat so perfectly still on top of that big marching drum that we couldn’t tell whether he was posing or petrified. Whatever, it worked. After a long week of photographing dogs, he was our Christmas gift.

Susan Butcher, the only woman to win the Iditarod three straight years, is competing in the most important race of her life - and expects to win.

Proponents of a question to protect dogs in the Commonwealth announced today that they have received certification from Secretary of State William Galvin, advancing the measure one step closer to the 2006 ballot.

Tom Knecht was about to have his Chesapeake Bay retriever fixed when he spotted them: fake dog testicles. The Salt Lake County endocrinologist was incredulous - "Is this for real?" he asked veterinarian Kelly Huston about an advertising pamphlet - and then tickled.

This holiday season is proving to be an unhappy one for dog owners. A new law allows discrimination against breeds of dogs. Napa's Assemblywoman Noreen Evans co-authored the bill in a misguided effort to target dangerous dogs.