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Man weds dog in bid to break curse

NEW DELHI (AP) -- A man in southern India married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony in a bid to atone for stoning two dogs to death, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

The 33-year-old man married the sari-draped dog at a temple in the southern state of Tamil Nadu on Sunday after an astrologer said it was the only way to cure himself of a disability, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported.

P. Selvakumar told the paper that he had been suffering since he stoned two dogs to death and strung them up in a tree 15 years ago.

"After that my legs and hands got paralyzed and I lost hearing in one ear," the paper quoted him as saying.

Family members chose a stray female dog named Selvi who was then bathed and clothed for the ceremony.

The groom and his family then had a feast, while the dog got a bun, the paper said.

Are the dog days of summer over yet?

And what do cats have? The cat days of autumn? Does each season have an animal to go wid it?

now dats funny

A dog jumped onto a table in Memphis, Tenn., put its paw on a handgun there and shot its owner, who is recovering, with 10 dog days to go in the dog days of summer.

Maybe they should check EBay

Full swimming pool stolen, not a drop spilled

Dog Days Update

A dog standing 6-foot-5 on its hind legs was reported in Britain, while another dog was uninjured after a 50-foot fall over the Dog Falls waterfall in Scotland, on the seventh dog day of summer.

Smiff Cottage Industries noted again by Chicago media

in QT today...

Lazy dogs of summer

Michael L. Smith, a San Diego, Calif., reader, writes:

"Is it the dog days of summer yet?"

This is the seventh dog day of summer, with 31 days to go.

The first man to bite a dog this year, in Yangfan, China, bit the dog on the first day of dog days.

There is not much other dog news to report, except for a dog nursing a stray kitten in Victoria, Texas.

These being the dog days of summer.

In related news...

Marcel Proust, who wrote, "We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond," was born 136 years ago on the second day of National Nude Recreation Week.