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In the case of good vs. evil, we like to think that good always wins. In the case of cute vs. cuter, it's harder to say. How can we choose between a gawky beagle puppy who is so bold he takes on a rottweiler and the big rottie whose heart is as soft as his fuzzy coat. Sure, the difference in size makes us nervous but their adorable play-fighting makes this video hard to resist.



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You're not the only ones who fell head over paws for those delectable Shiba Inus bouncing around in front of a Web cam 24 hours a day, seven days a week back in 2008.

The award-winning cam has been joined by hundreds of other pups vying for your hearts at live broadcast site UStream. Largely in the homes of breeders, some of the cams are being used to market puppies to potential owners, some to allow would-be owners to track their new friends from birth until the day they can come home, and still more to open up the breeding process to ensure transparency in all that happens during a puppy's life.

As Ed Pelto -- owner of Olde English Bulldogges in Woodbury, Minn. and the person behind the Pelto Bulldogges Puppy Cam -- explains to Paw Nation, avoiding a puppy mill is a lot easier when you can watch every moment of a dog's life live on your computer.

"There's no hiding anything here," Pelto says. "With all the controversy, all the news and with these cams, how people still end up buying from puppy mills, I just don't understand."

But there's a lot more to puppy cams than just folks looking to weed out the bad breeders. As Pelto says with a laugh, "Everybody loves puppies, don't they?"

They love them enough to have pushed the Shiba Inus to the People's Voice Award winner in the Viral category for the 13th Annual Webby Awards. And they love them enough that animal owners have been putting their pups on camera far before those balls of fur made for a frenzy.

They're unlikely friends, but when a 90 lbs. Rottweiler became stranded in the middle of a dark Ohio road, her tiny best friend, a 9 lbs. poodle, refused to leave her side.

Veterinary assistant Jody Wetzig was working Monday night at the Lorain County Animal Emergency Center when she received a phone call from a woman who had spotted two dogs sitting in the middle of the dark, two-lane road. One was a Rottweiler whose leg appeared to be injured. The other was a small, black poodle who was sitting right next to her bigger friend. The woman didn't know what to do.

"Normally, we don't take in strays," Wetzig explains to Paw Nation. "But if they're injured, we'll try to help, so we told the lady to bring the Rottweiler in."

When the woman arrived with the dogs, she had a touching story to tell. "The woman said that the poodle would not leave the Rottweiler's side," Wetzig recounts. The little dog stayed close as the woman and a passerby eased the Rottweiler onto a blanket. When they loaded the dog into the car, the poodle jumped in too.