Newspaper for newshounds

BARKING mad newshounds? Scruffy staff? Snarling and bristling on deadline day? Nothing new there, but around Albury Wodonga, the Border Tail newspaper takes the biscuit.

It's been digging up doggy scoops for nearly four years, since editor Robyn Flemming and her deputy editor ? her pampered papillon Charlie ? started it. It was an offshoot of the local Dogs Breakfast Group, where 60 dogs and their well-trained humans had a free-for-all each month.

The "Dear Ruby" column gives advice on finding a Freddo frog, . . . and on canine shoe fetishes.

Interviews probe what really gets a dog hot under the collar.

"Charlie was interviewed in it once," Robyn explains.

"She was asked who her dream date was "Brad Pit Bull!"

Dog horoscopes can be more practical than pooches prefer.

Aries dogs, for instance, are known to fight over females and the stars advise veterinary insurance and "early castration".

There's a Grumpy Old Dogs section, possibly featuring those unfortunate Arians.

The year's last issue has new year's resolutions for next year ? the Chinese Year of the Dog.

Taz-man, a ridgeback-cross provided last year's.

"He promised not to clean the new baby's face with his tongue or to tear off the dog flap barreling through," Robyn said.

MP Malcolm Turnbull's dogs Rusty, Jojo and Mellie have it emailed to them.

The paper raises money for Trish Smith's Albury Dog Rescue, which saved 70 death-row dogs this year.

Mostly, though it gets people and dogs together.

"When there's 50 to 60 dogs, it's an amazing thing to see," Robyn said.

You wouldn't read about it - although your dog might.

Reference: www.heraldsun.news.com.au

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