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  Some Say Dallas Animal Services Officers Need Body Cameras To Keep Them Accountable

  September 1 at 4 a.m.

  Local animal rights advocates say they have some worries about proposed $380,000 cuts to Dallas Animal Services' budget.  The cuts in the recent draft city budget being worked on by the City Council include $50,000 to DAS's body camera budget, $249,000 in salaries for one vet and one manager III position,...

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  Dallas Animal Services Actually Doing a Bang-Up Job, According to Annual Report

  January 16 at 4 a.m.

  It doesn't take a particularly good memory to remember when Dallas had a problem with loose dogs. A crisis is probably a more accurate way to describe it. A 2016 study found that there were literally thousands of loose dogs roaming the streets of southern Dallas contributing to a spike...

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  Texas Law Enforcement Relieved They Can Now Keep K-9s in Forever Family

  Friday, December 27, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas County Sheriff's Deputy Latorrez Jones gently smooths his dog Hawk’s ears and chest fur. Hawk’s jaws lock firmly on the thick burlap arm guard wrapped around Deputy Kevin Ross' arm. As Ross pulls back, simulating an attempt to escape, Hawk’s grip holds steady. He’s been trained to bite once,...

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  Can Raising Cattle Be Environmentally Friendly? These Texas Ranchers Say Yes.

  Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Thigh-high grasses and plant stalks thwack the sides of the all-terrain buggy as Meredith Ellis maneuvers it down a faint double track through a dense pasture. Grasshoppers launch out of the way, whirring past bright purple, thistle-like Leavenworth's eryngo that poke up alongside creamy milkweed flowers. Yellow and purple wildflowers...

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  Your Dog Is Not a Child. If You Died at Home, Would Your Child Eat You?

  Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  If the people who walk their dogs off the leash in my neighborhood have children at home, I feel sorry for the children. How you train your dog is how you train your kid. So the way they must train their kids is, “Go ahead and play in traffic, little...

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  Dak Prescott's Dog Got Out and Bit Someone, Frisco Police Say

  Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Dak Prescott's dogs got a chance to break into the open field Monday morning and took it, Frisco police say. Residents of the suburb have more to fear than just coyotes, it seems. Around lunchtime Monday, one of the Cowboys quarterback's neighbors near Hilton Head Lane and Princess Caroline Court...