Series of this type include the Famous Five ( 21 novels, 1942 – 1963, based on four children and their dog ), the Five Find-Outers and Dog, ( 15 novels, 1943 – 1961, where five children regularly outwit the local police ) as well as The Secret Seven ( 15 novels, 1949 – 1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries ).

Other possible predators include caracals, jackals, striped hyenas, and the saluki, a greyhound-like domestic dog local to the area.

In general, owners are considered liable if they were unreasonably careless in handling or restraining the dog, or if they knew beforehand that the dog had a tendency to cause injury ( e. g., bite ); however, dog owners are automatically considered liable if local laws hold an owner strictly liable for all damage caused by their dog, regardless of carelessness or foreknowledge of a dog's tendencies.

The fountain, forming a plinth for the statue of a brown dog, was installed near in the Latchmere Recreational Grounds, became a cause célèbre, fought over in riots and battles between medical students and the local populace until its removal in 1910.

This is where, according to local myth, a dog belonging to one of the Chiefs jumped the river to get help from nearby clans after a surprise enemy attack.

In March, 2010, Police Officer Doug Howell shot and killed a seemingly restrained dog causing public outrage from local residents.

The opinion pages of these two newspapers have had major influence on city council decisions, building code enforcement, dog park rule enforcement and local elections.

The Croatian Minute Movie Cup — an international festival featuring one minute long movies — and the national dog show are held in May The events in June are St. John's Bonfire ( 21 June ), Kulenijada — a special event dedicated to presentation and tasting of the very best kulen ( Slavonian paprika-flavoured sausages ), served with quality local wines.

Linthwaite hit the national news in late 2005 when a local young thug inserted lit fireworks into a dog.

The Department's present activities also include the implementation of recent dog control and local government legislation.

Australia also has a long history of dog trialing with a kelpie named Brutus reported in the local paper in Young NSW as winning a Sheepdog Trial in 1871.

The first skinless hot dog casings were produced by Freund's new company under the name " Nojax ", short for " no jackets " and sold to local Chicago sausage makers.

Every year on the Saturday before Mardi Gras, there is a local Mardi Croix parade and a dog parade through the North Shore.

The area for the Wantage development is farmland and used by local walkers, cyclists and dog owners ( Source: Oxford Mail 8th December 2009 ).

The locals presented him with a gift of a local dog, whom he named Stella for the North Star.

According a local folk tale, a cat, mouse and dog were traveling on a Chinese ship, when they attempted to steal a crystal from a merchant.

The principal ancestors of the first Rottweilers during this time are believed to be the Roman droving dog, local dogs the army met on its travels, and dogs with molosser appearance coming from England and the Netherlands.

Meanwhile, across town by the railway, a stray mutt, referred to as The Tramp, lives life from moment to moment, be it begging for scraps from the local Italian restaurant or protecting his fellow strays Peg ( a Lhasa Apso ) and Bull ( an English bulldog ) from the local dog catcher.

However, the same bossy nature which this breed excels at in keeping order on the farm can cause havoc in the local dog park where the English Shepherd often appoints himself as the leader or alpha dog.

In the local dialect, it used to be referred to as bear dog.

In the narrower sense environmental activists that align themselves with Earth First or Road Protestors would commonly be labelled activists, whilst a local community fighting to stop their park or green being sold off or built on would fit the broader application, due to their using similar means to similarly conservative ends.

The protest in Eugene turned into a riot where local anarchists drove police out of a small park.

Work by local artists is often put on public display around St. Stephen's Green, the main public park in the city centre.

The Arts Lab hosted a free festival in a local park, later immortalised by Bowie in his song " Memory of a Free Festival ".

Anderson said that Bob Bell got arrested while getting shrubs and trees for the show by taking cuttings in a local park.

The more visited eastern part of the park is managed by Narok County Council and the western part, known as the Mara Triangle, by the Trans-Mara county council, which is contracting management to the Mara Conservancy, a local nonprofit organization formed by the local Maasai that contains several anti-poaching units.

Simmons and McDaniels started hanging around Two-Fifths Park in Hollis in late 1980, hoping to rap for the local DJs that performed and competed there, and the most popular one known to frequent the park was Mizell, then known as " Jazzy Jase ".

Slightly over half the members of each national park authority are appointees from the principal local authorities covered by the park ; the remainder are appointed by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, some to represent local parish councils, others selected to represent the " national interest ".

After the end of World War II national public sentiment was in favor of adding the monument to the park, and though there was still much local opposition, the monument and park were combined in 1950.

Takoma park has an extensive hardwood tree canopy which is protected by local ordinance.

A deal announced in 2006 to build a new park in Fremont, to be called Cisco Field was halted three years later as a result of opposition from businesses and local residents.

Examples of how the park contributes to the village can be seen at the large and successful Mayday fete, as well as the local pub football matches occasionally held there.

There is a park and walking track that circumnavigates Lake Benalla, featuring a ceramic sculpture community that was created as part of an employment project for local artists.

Eventually, Liz calms down, takes Carol home, and decides to sit in the local park to gather her thoughts.

Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is divided into areas that generally encompass a park ( sometimes known as " links "), a main local street ( i. e. street of local retail shops ), a high street ( the historic main street, not always the same as the main local street, such as in Corstorphine ) and residential buildings.

Shepton benefits from a sizeable park, a gift of land from a local man, John Kyte Collett.

As a boy he was thrown out of the grounds of local estates for trespass so in later life he purchased and gave land to the town to provide a public space ; this park, which opened in 1906, is called Collett Park in his honour.

Apart from the aforementioned Plastics Valley and numerous smaller business parks which have been founded by local initiatives the large industrial park of the plain of Ain has to be mentioned.

Accordingly, some advocates argue, local trade in any native species within an ecoregion's borders should not be taxed at all, as it presents little or no ecological risk compared to imported goods, and so requires little or no regulation, labelling, inspection, or other expenses.

It advocates the consumption of locally grown food because it tastes better and takes less energy to produce, and also to support local farmers and merchants.

Police officers are alleged to have targeted Washington and Lee University students in particular, prompting criticism by university officials and local civil rights advocates.

Many of those languages have enthusiastic advocates ; however, the real importance of local languages remains subject to debate.

Efforts by local advocates to implement needle exchange programs to combat the spread of infection were obstructed for several years by downstate and suburban state legislators but a program was finally approved in June 2006.

Many private citizens, property owners and local and regional groups oppose the " open unless posted closed " policy the county advocates.

He also made headlines, even angering some fellow right-to-die advocates, when he presented his plan to launch a " death ship " that would have allowed him to circumvent local laws by euthanising people from around the world in international waters.

In response, Pacifica joined forces with other advocates for independent media in the " Radio for People " campaign, helping local groups apply for these full-power licenses.

Many advocates suggest that waste vegetable oil is the best source of oil to produce biodiesel, but since the available supply is drastically less than the amount of petroleum-based fuel that is burned for transportation and home heating in the world, this local solution could not scale to the current rate of consumption.

Though track through Carleton Place has not been removed, local advocates work towards maintaining the presence of a local train track, however, rail utility buildings in downtown Carleton Place were recently removed.

The Electoral Reform Society is a political pressure group based in the United Kingdom which advocates scrapping First Past the Post ( FPTP ) for all National and local elections.

The party instead advocates cantons of self rule for the Arabs in the West Bank whose leadership would be local and not imported.

While leading advocates of local independent business such as the American Independent Business Alliance say the term should apply only to locally-owned independent businesses, some campaigns run by governments and Chambers of Commerce consider local to be merely a geographic consideration.

This can exacerbate the very problems that " buy-local " advocates are trying to solve, for example, because small local farms require substantially more land, water, and other inputs than do larger nonlocal farms.

The National Civic League is an American non-profit organization that advocates for transparency, effectiveness, and openness in local government.

He advocates a civic state as the ideal, where the common good of society is valued and solutions emerge from local communities.

Locally, Dreier is well known for supporting local institutions such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Metro Gold Line, and advocates for transportation improvements such as railroad grade separations and highway expansion.

For instance, a food security agenda that simply provides surplus grain to hungry people would probably be strongly criticised by food sovereignty advocates as just another form of commodity dumping, facilitating corporate penetration of foreign markets, undermining local food production, and possibly leading to irreversible biotech contamination of indigenous crops with patented varieties.

The BWF advocates a dual goal of local church renewal and national level reformation.

However, as a result of the controversy, more toll road advocates favor creating local agencies similar to Transportation Corridor Agencies to build and maintain future tollways.

While harmless in itself, this feature caught the attention of a number of privacy advocates, and users with firewall software installed, who felt it was unnecessary for Windows to connect to Microsoft ’ s servers whenever a local search was performed.

Community Boards are local representative bodies that serve as advocates for New York City residents and communities.

The question of competing aspirations of Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and local advocates for political autonomy were not addressed, and the notion of ethnic boundaries was impossible to implement effectively.