There have been other opportunities, but I was always reluctant for the simple reason that I am a huge dog lover and worried that pulling the sled was somehow unfair, harmful, or abusive to the dogs.

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What is this huge paper dog doing in my house?

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Kendall Crolius, co-author of the "Knitting With Dog Hair" book, supports the effort to take the stuff mainstream, though she is quick to say that she can't picture "a huge industrial dog-spinning factory" popping up any time soon.

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The idea of doing a dirty Lassie movie is wittier than its execution in this go-for-the-gonads sci-fi flick about a huge guard dog named Max who becomes ultra-possessive of a feckless TV reporter (Ally Sheedy) after she springs him from an animal-experimentation lab.

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Mr Gwernan-Jones added that there was a "huge psychological impact" on owners following a guide dog attack.

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Above the famous intersection outside Shibuya station, where throngs converge and cross from the Hachiko dog stature plaza toward Dogenzaka and Center Street, the huge television panels are back to advertising the latest youth bands and youth market products.

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Paris employs a huge work force to keep the city clean and its use of golf cart-like vehicles to vacuum dog droppings has received admiring -- and sometimes wry -- attention in the international media.

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