Because I am a bleeding heart liberal who is trying to tear this country apart with spending programs that will allow gay illegal immigrants to get abortions and/or take away your guns, I listen to NPR sometimes. The other day, I was alerted to a story from their All Things Considered program that absolutely walloped me. Andy, the adorable Pembroke Welsh Corgi pictured above, was separated from his owner on New Year’s Eve while they were visiting friends in Westport, Connecticut. He ran off into the woods after being frightened by some fireworks, and, although there have been sightings, he has yet to be reunited with his family.

In an effort to find him, Andy’s owner, Jordina Ghiggeri, has taken to the web to seek out help and donations:

Since then Ghiggeri has used the old-fashioned approach — some 4,000 posters plastered all over Westport, according to the Boston Globe — and the wonders of technology and the World Wide Web in the effort to find Andy.

There’s the Bring Andy Home Facebook page, which has more than 4,000 “likes.” There’s the Bring Andy Home blog and YouTube channel. Strangers, the Globe says, helped raise $11,000 to buy a dozen night-vision cameras. A pet detective has been enlisted. The missing dog’s story has made it into The New York Times and on to the CBC.

If you or anyone you know can be of assistance, the contact information is available at the blog I linked to in the blockquote. Here’s hoping for a happy resolution to this story, sooner than later. And if any of you have your own dog at home, please take this opportunity to go hug it to goddamn pieces.

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Lawyer Dog is one of my favorite memes of 2012, if not of all time. This should come as no surprise to any of you, as it combines three things that fall squarely in my wheelhouse: pictures of dogs, crappy puns, and lawyer stuff. The only way it could possibly be tailored more towards me is if the corgi in these pictures was wearing a Phillies hat and had a Boyz II Men poster hanging up in his office. In fact, if any of you are experts in Photoshop and want to throw that together, I’d probably get it screened onto a t-shirt and wear it 4-5 days a week. (UPDATE: luv u so much, Burnsy.)

Anyway, I scoured the Internet this week collecting some of my favorite examples of this meme (most notably from sites like QuickMeme, Pleated-Jeans, Smosh, and the Uproxx Mothership), and I’ve compiled them all here for your enjoyment. I’m sure some of you have already seen them, as they’ve kind of been everywhere, but this was all too good not post. Enjoy.

FYI: You have all been billed for the time I spent putting this post together.

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“The Bachelor” is getting sued for racial discrimination - Lawyers are filing a class action lawsuit against the producers of the ABC reality show, pointing out that over 10 years of “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” being on the air, there has not been a single person of color as the star. I believe the banner picture of this post, taken on the set of “Bachelor Pad,” is a little something referred to in Evidence classes as “Exhibit A.” [The Hollywood Reporter]

A producer has filed a $50 Million lawsuit over “Anger Management” – Joe Roth, the top banana at FX’s new Charlie Sheen sitcom, is being sued by a fellow producer who says Roth reneged on a deal and is screwing him out of millions. My favorite part of this story is where the producer’s lawyer says “Make no mistake, this lawsuit will serve as a wakeup call,” because it made me picture Joe Roth sleeping comfortably in a hotel and then one of the hotel’s employees sneaking into his room and literally bonking him on the head with a lawsuit to wake him up. WHY WOULD ANYONE STAY THERE? [Deadline]

The “Desperate Housewives” retrial has been set for September - Nicollette Sheridan’s lawsuit against “Desperate Housewives” creator Marc Cherry, and all its bonkers shenanigans, ended in a mistrial last month due to a hung jury, and will be retried this fall. My official legal analysis of these developments is that Miss Trial and the Hung Jury would be a terrific title for an erotic novel or short story, if any of you aspiring writers out there are looking for one. That’s a freebie. [Vulture]

DogTV is going national – A little while back, I did a post about DogTV, the first TV channel full of programming for dogs (not about dogs, for dogs). Well I have excellent news: DogTV is doing so well in its San Diego market that its parent company plans to offer it nationally in the next few months. Admittedly this is not “legal news,” but I think it is very important and should be noted. [NY Daily News]

This video of a corgi being vacuumed has been everywhere this week, and justifiably so. I mean, it is a video of a corgi being vacuumed for Chrissake. That’s good Internetting right there, people. The only annoying thing about this video is that I had to wait until today to post it, even though it’s been burning a hole in my Bookmarks since the middle of the week. Them’s the breaks, I guess.

As a little background, the corgi in the video is named Corbin, and he has his own subdomain on my favorite corgi Tumblr, Corgi Addict. If you go to Corbin’s website, you will find a bunch of pictures of Corbin with his owner, who, for the record, is not an unattractive young woman. I had originally intended to save a ton of pictures from the site and run them as a giant slideshow that would get a million click$, but then two things happened: 1) The video’s popularity has resulted in most of the pictures on the site being unavailable due to exceeded bandwidth, and; 2) Earlier this afternoon something came up that completely derailed my day. What, you ask? Oh nothing, just this:

My entire body is full of exclamation points.

Seeing as Warming Glow is the premiere destination for dog-related television news, I feel obligated to bring you this news: CBS has picked up a reality show about dogs.

CBS has picked up for summer “Dogs In The City,” a reality series starring New York City dog guru Justin Silver, which will premiere on May 30. In the vein of veteran Dog Whisperer, Silver, a dog trainer, behaviorist and owner of a pet care company, helps owners with any dog behavior-related problems. “Dogs are at the center of the story here, but this is a show that reveals as much about human nature as man’s best friend,” Mendelsohn said. [Deadline]

This story is such a letdown. When I saw the headline “CBS Greenlights ‘Dogs in the City,’” my mind started racing. I thought maybe it was going to be a gritty crime drama about a group of inner-city dogs coming up on the hard streets, like “The Wire.” Or maybe a show about a group of promiscuous, high-society fashionista dogs dealing with the trappings of modern-day romance, like “Sex and the City.” Or maybe a show about six doggie friends hanging out in upscale coffee shops and having lots of zany adventures, like “Friends.” Or maybe a show about cutthroat big city dog lawyers who fight for justice in the courtroom, but secretly have personal lives that are in shambles, like every lawyer show on TV. Or maybe a show about flashy dog cops going undercover to bust drug dealers their way, no matter what the chief says, like every cop show on TV. The possibilities were endless. Instead, it’s just another show about a dingus who tells people how to train their dog.

This simply will not do. Call me, Hollywood. We can fix this.