Dog Training

COUDERSPORT — A 35-year-old Potter County man reported that he lost four dog-training devices along Interstate 80.

NORWALK - When she started the Main and Wall Street Festival three years ago, shopkeeper Danna DiElsi had a vision. “I remember Wall Street as a buzzing, happy place.

The weather’s fine, and you’d love for your dog to get the kind of exercise and socialization that can’t happen at the end of a leash. You’ve got just one problem: Once your dog’s off leash, you’re not sure you can get him back.

If you’re not going to be able to catch Lorretta Ables Sayre’s performance in “South Pacific” on Broadway, you can catch a glimpse of her tomorrow night.

Move over beagles, bulldogs and boxers. Today’s most popular pooches are more likely to be designer dogs - crossbreds with inventive names like buggs, puggles, malteagles, bogles and pekepoos. Staff writer Allison Rudd looks into the world of designer dogs and asks: Are they masterpiece or mutt?