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Bosnian police on Friday said they had tracked down a Bosnian girl who sparked worldwide outrage when she was seen on video throwing half a dozen puppies into a river. The girl who appeared to be in her teens lives in the central town of Bugojno, police spokesman Sefir Barucija was quoted by SRNA news agency as saying, but officers ...

Bosnian police said on Wednesday they were investigating claims by a local animals rights group that a Bosnian girl threw half a dozen puppies into a river in a video that sparked global outrage. Animals rights group "Flekice" (Spots) filed a complaint to police claiming that the girl seen on the video, originally posted on YouTube, came from the central ...

Animal welfare group the RSPCA has called for dog licences to be reintroduced, saying an annual licence fee of as little as £21.50 could help reduce the number of strays and help tackle irresponsible dog breeding. The recommendation, made in a new report, comes a few days after 10-year-old Rhianna Kidd fractured her jaw and required plastic surgery after ...

The yellow school bus makes its rounds, picking up one eager passenger after another en route to day camp. Small legs quickly climb the stairs, heads pop out of bus windows and excitement rises. Each of these day campers has four legs ...

A video of a girl tossing half-a-dozen puppies into a river has sparked outrage online with chat forums and Facebook pages calling for her to be tracked down and punished. The 44-second video, which was originally posted on YouTube, shows a blonde girl in a red sweatshirt casually taking the squealing black-and-white puppies out of a white bucket and tossing ...

This summer, Italy's special squad of rescue workers were again chalking up success: some 300 dogs ready to help save lives on dozens of Italian beaches. In early August in Tarquinia, a town about 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Rome, the dogs and their human partners saved on the same day two girls, who had fallen off their ...

They leap from helicopters or speeding boats, bringing aid to swimmers who get into trouble off Italy's popular beaches. For these lifeguards, the doggie paddle does just fine. Hundreds of specially trained dogs form Italy's corps of canine lifeguards, are deployed each summer to ...

A German shepherd that survived six gunshots in Ohio soon will move to a no-kill shelter that took in pit bulls seized from Michael Vick's dogfighting ring. The Best Friends Animal Society says Sarge will leave for his new home in southern ...

Uno the beagle and Stump the Sussex spaniel eyed each other and one of them seemed to snarl. Apparently, even the best of the purebreds aren't always on their best behavior. The two dogs were among six former winners of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog ...

Authorities say a Cincinnati police dog has died after an officer left it in a hot car. Police say 13-year department member Brian Trotta inadvertently left the female German shepherd, Juno, in the car while responding to a family emergency. He is on administrative leave ...