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Dogs Really Do Make Life Better
You already know that your dog's sloppy kisses and soft ears make you happy, but according to USA Today's Paw Print Post, having a dog improves your life in five different ways. They help us be more active, create community, assist with healing, force us to relax, and give us companionship. You can vote for which one is most important to you over at USA Today's Paw Print Post.

Hartz Recalls Treats
Hartz has issued a voluntary recall on Hartz Naturals Real Beef Treats due to a risk of salmonella. Hartz has not received reports of any sickness due to these treats but symptoms of salmonella poisoning in both dogs and humans includes fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain and nausea. Any person or animal experiencing these symptoms should seek medical attention. If you have an 8-ounce bag of Hartz Naturals Real Beef Treats for Dogs, lot code BZ0969101E, UPC number 32700-11519, discard it immediately. You can call Hartz at 1-800-275-1414 with any questions or to receive information on how to be reimbursed for a purchased product.

Motorcycle-Riding Dog Learning to Water Ski
A dog in Redington Shores, Fla., has proven to have an adventurous side. Chibi, the dog, and her owner, David Williams, are already well-known in the area because she rides his motorcycle with him, straddling it like a human. But now, she's taken her wild side to the water and, according to United Press International, is in the process of learning to water ski!

Michigan Man Finds Long-Lost Dog in Kentucky Shelter
When Jake the Weimaraner disappeared from his Michigan home the day after Thanksgiving seven years ago, Brad Davis was afraid he'd never see his beloved pup again. However, the two were reunited yesterday after Jake turned up in a shelter in Kentucky and was identified by his microchip. Davis suspects the then 6-month-old Jake was stolen from their backyard by a family he'd helped pack for a move to Kentucky, but tells WTVQ-TV it doesn't matter now; he's just happy to take his dog home.

Missing Zoo Animals Found Safe and Sound
A tiger and two camels made international news this weekend when the truck and trailer holding them were stolen while they were being transported to Nova Scotia. Concern was particularly high for Jonas, the 3-year-old tiger, because of the high likelihood of dehydration if he had been kept without water, reports CBC News. Today, however, zoo officials, animals lovers, and the animals themselves are breathing a sigh of relief. The Bowmanville Zoo animals were found in a rural area outside of Montreal, after the police received a tip about their location. Although authorities still don't know who took the animals, they had obviously been cared for as all three seem completely healthy, reports the Toronto Sun.

Singer Tracy Lawrence Reunited With Lost Dog
When Tank, the bulldog Tracy Lawrence got two years ago on Father's Day, disappeared from the country singer's parked truck last week, the entire family was devastated. Luckily, a good Samaritan found Tank a few miles from where he was last seen and returned him on Father's Day, reports PeoplePets. It's still unclear whether Tank took off on his own or if someone snagged him, but right now, everybody is just happy to have him back home.

Kelly Osbourne Buys a Puppy for Her Fiance
Kelly Osbourne has purchased a pooch for her fiance, Luke Worrall, but it wasn't a birthday or anniversary present. Osbourne shelled out for the little furball because she knew Worrall was jealous of the bond she shared with her dog, Sid, reports PlanetRadioCity.com. So how is that working out? Although Worrall is loving the little fella, it appears Osbourne is just as smitten, meaning Worrall has yet another adorable face to compete with. We don't think that's how Osbourne planned it, but it looks like she wins either way!

Just a week after Delta Airlines made news for putting two children on wrong flights, and a month after the airline lost a dog that a vacationing couple had rescued, Delta misplaced another passenger: An 8-week-old puppy. The pooch was sent to California instead of Maine, reports MyFoxMaine.com.

The puppy belongs to Cyndi O'Brien, who had purchased the dog from a kennel in South Carolina. The breeder put the little guy on a flight to Atlanta, and Delta was supposed to transfer him to a flight headed for Portland, Maine which landed around 11 that night. Instead, he ended up in San Jose, Calif., a fact O'Brien wasn't able to get from Delta until the next day. Once Delta was aware of the mistake, they put the dog on a red eye to Portland, but that didn't change the fact that he was stuck in his crate for nearly 24 hours, according to MyFoxMaine.com.

Upon arriving at his new home, the puppy cowered, then vomited and had diarrhea -- he was later diagnosed with dehydration and pneumonia by O'Brien's vet. O'Brien says Delta has been unable to answer whether he was fed, watered, walked or kept company for any portion of the ordeal. She has yet to receive an apology from the airline.

O'Brien says that Delta told her to fill out a complaint and fill out an email, and not to call them back -- something she felt was offensive and showed a serious disregard for her puppy's life. Regardless of how Delta responds, O'Brien is just glad to have her puppy at home with her.

Dog Whisperer and Wife Split
Cesar Millan and his wife, Ilusion, have decided to call it quits after 16 years of marriage, the trainer and TV host said on his website. While he states that they'll both remain committed to parenting their two-legged children, there was no mention of who will get custody of the dogs.

Dog Reunited With Family After Four Years
When Cooper, a coton de Tulear, disappeared in 2006, his family feared the worst. Now, four years later, he's been returned to his owners thanks to the microchip found by shelter workers, reports the Long Island Press. How did Cooper's four years of freedom treat him? Aside from his coat being matted, he's in good shape and, according to his owner, very happy to be home.

Humane Society Donates 12 Tons of Pet Food to Oil-Spill Affected Louisiana
The Gulf Coast has had a rough time as of late with the recent catastrophic oil spill, and many animals are bearing the brunt of the bad economy when their owners abandon them. The Humane Society is stepping up and delivering 12 tons of pet food to two of the hardest-hit parishes in Louisiana, reports Tonic. The food will go to shelters to be distributed to families in need so the pets can stay with their families.

Jorge Garcia Mourns Loss of Dog
Jorge Garcia, who played the character Hurley on the hit show "Lost," is having a rough couple of weeks. First, the series ended, and then his dog, Nunu, was killed, he writes on his blog. The Chihuahua-dachshund mix was hit by a car and died in Garcia's arms. She'll be buried in the Pet Garden at Valley of the Temples in Kaneohe, and in three months, visitors will find a plaque with her name on it. "If you'd like to leave a flower or a toy, I'm sure she'd love it," Garcia writes.

Brody Jenner is Bringing Bentley Back
Brody Jenner has taken back a puppy he once gave an ex-girlfriend. Jenner retrieved the French bulldog, named Bentley, because the ex "wasn't taking care of him the best," the reality star said on "The Bonnie Hunt Show." Jenner wouldn't name which of his exes the pup belonged to (he's been linked to Nicole Richie, Lauren Conrad and Kristin Cavalerri), but said that the pup now resides with his mom, who is totally smitten according to Monsters and Critics.

Delta Loses Dog and Offers $200 Credit
An Ontario couple who dreamed of rescuing and adopting a stray dog in Mexico are now living a nightmare. After getting a dog they found on vacation all fixed up at the vet and arranging to bring him home, Delta Airlines lost the dog, reports CNN. The airline claims the dog, named Paco, escaped his carrier, which Josiah Allen, the man who rescued Paco, doesn't believe for a second. And while the airline states that it provided Allen "compensation and additionally we have offered to reimburse them for all of the expenses associated with the dog," Allen said he was just offered a $200 credit toward future travel on Delta. This makes us think twice about flying with pets, that's for sure.

Runaway Rhino Returns
A two-ton rhinoceros is safely back in his enclosure after escaping for about five hours overnight last week at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, reports WBBH News. This feeling of freedom wasn't new to Archie the rhino; he'd escaped years ago, but was lured back with food. The zoo workers didn't have such luck this time and had to sedate Archie before returning him to his enclosure. The zoo is quick to point out that at no point was Archie off of the zoo's property, or even in public parts of the zoo.

Sweet relief: Sugar is home!

A beloved Brooklyn mutt that had vanished into snowy Prospect Park was found Tuesday shivering and tied to a tree.

The French bulldog/basset hound mix named Sugar vanished last Wednesday. Soon after, a money-hungry man called the family demanding a ransom.

When a flustered Drucie Belman offered only $50 - a figure she just blurted out and later regretted as too low - the dognapper hung up . The tale of woe was originally featured by Daily News columnist Michael Daly on Sunday.

The family - including husband Albert, 42, and their sons, Henry, 10, and Leo, 7 - plastered Park Slope with posters and searched Prospect Park.

Calls came in, but many were hangups - and some were downright cruel. "Someone called up yesterday and said, 'Sugar's dead,'" Belman said.

Read the rest of the story by Barry Paddock and Katie Nelson at the New York Daily News!

Can the power of Twitter and Facebook help Jesse James find his lost dog, CinnaBun?

James -- best known as the owner of custom motorcycle shop West Coast Choppers, sometime reality-show star, and husband of actress Sandra Bullock -- has launched an all-out plea for help in finding his lost pit-bull puppy. "CinnaBun our shop dog & pet has been missing since 2pm yesterday. If you find her plz call 562-983-6666," James tweeted last Tuesday, Jan. 26.

A $5,000 reward is being offered for finding CinnaBun. "She's a light brown and white pit bull, 9 months old, cropped ears, full tail, hazel eyes," states James' Web site. CinnaBun was last seen wearing a large pink collar near the West Coast Choppers shop located in Long Beach, Calif.

CinnaBun was given to James as a puppy by a kindly stranger after hearing about the death of one of James' elderly pit bulls, Cisco. She is the newest pooch to join James' pack of dogs and is described as a "little charmer" with the "attitude of a charging rhino and bladder of a hummingbird." (View photos of CinnaBun playing with Mr. T, another pit-bull pet.)

Helping to look for CinnaBun is FindToto.com, the pet locator service that helped find Brooke Burns' lost dog and tried to locate Jessica Simpson's lost Maltipoo, who was never found.

There have been numerous alleged sightings of CinnaBun, including one report of a local teenager trying to sell a dog that matched CinnaBun's description, but the pit-bull puppy has not yet been recovered. Meanwhile, CinnaBun has a Facebook page where fans are posting updates.

One Utah dog and her family will have a much happier holiday now that the pooch is home, safe and sound.

Millie, an Australian shepherd, disappeared about three weeks ago from her home in Cottonwood Heights. Her owner, Sue Garr, presumed she'd jumped the six-foot fence in their back yard, and told KSL TV, "Our whole family was absolutely sick."

A woman walked by a storm drain about two miles from the Garrs' home and heard a dog barking from within. She called 911, and a scared, skinny, smelly Millie was coaxed out by the police.

When she saw her family, "She went nuts," Garr told KSL TV.

Before her rescue, the freezing temperatures had most people doubting that Millie could have survived, but fortunately, the storm drain was about 10 degrees warmer than the temperature on the street, reports KSL TV. It's assumed Millie survived on storm water and rats, though we're certain she'll be showered with some tastier treats now that she's home.

While Garr said they don't plan to increase the height of their already tall fence, she did tell KSL TF that one change would be made: "She's going to become an indoor dog."

To this day, Sheila Helton cannot talk about the time her Chihuahua, Rue, went missing without tearing up. "If we had listened to people who told us to give up, we would never have found Rue," Sheila tells Paw Nation. But find her she did, after 19 days in Florida's swampland.

When Sheila and her partner Sue set off with 12 family members on a nine day trip to Portugal in September 2007, it was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. With a pet sitter to watch their other two dogs, the women left eight-month-old Rue in the care of Sue's father.

The tiny Chihuahua rode with Sue's father and his wife to the airport in Fort Meyers, Florida to see Sheila and Sue off. Moments later, when Sue's father pulled over at a rest stop, Rue became so frightened by a bolt of lightning that she wriggled out of her harness and ran straight for a nearby massive stretch of swampland.

Celebrity pets keep going MIA, but this time there's a happy ending.

Brooke Burns, former "Baywatch" star and co-host of Fox reality game show "Hole in the Wall", was devastated when her black Maltipoo Max went missing last week, just weeks after Jessica Simpson's Maltipoo was snatched up by coyotes.

Burns went so far as to hire FindToto.com, an AMBER Alert-type service that calls neighbors in the area to inform them of a lost pet. (Simpson also hired the service, to no avail.)

Fortunately, all Burns needed was her trusty groomer.

According to TMZ, Burns' groomer mentioned Max's disappearance while chatting with another client -- and it just so happened that the client's neighbor had just found a black Maltipoo. They put two and two together and Max was soon reunited with Burns.

Max's groomer definitely has it!

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As the operator of Love Me Tender animal rescue, Kathy Wilkes-Myers has saved hundreds of dogs, but she's never dealt with a lost pup like Ella.

The saga began one evening this summer when Wilkes-Myers was driving home from work in central Tennessee. On a rural stretch of highway, she spotted a rottweiler along the side of the road. Always on the lookout for dogs in need of help, she stopped the car and approached the black and brown pup.

"I called her, and to my amazement she crawled toward me and tucked her little head under my arm," Wilkes-Myers tells Paw Nation. Emaciated but friendly, it was immediately clear to Wilkes-Myers that this sweet, trusting dog had come from a loving home.

Near the spot where she found the dog, Wilkes-Myers noticed broken glass and skid marks. As she walked the dog back toward her car, she spotted something else -- a pile of personal items, seemingly gathered up by the dog. "I saw this scratched out nest, and all this stuff in the nest," she says -- a toothbrush, a comb, a single shoe.

On the drive back to her house, Wilkes-Myers remembered a terrible car crash she'd driven past at almost that very spot nearly two weeks earlier. She guessed that the dog survived that accident and had gathered up her family's belongings left over from the crash. "I guess that helped give her some comfort," Wilkes-Myers tells Paw Nation.

Using the clues she discovered along the side of the road, Wilkes-Myers began the hunt for the dog's family. She called the highway patrol and an insurance company whose number she found written on a water-soaked notepad at the crash site. Eventually she learned the name of the family who had been involved in the crash.

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