Some barks sound big, but when it comes to size, Bertha has every dog beat at Border Tails Rescue. The 7-year-old, 170-pound mastiff got comfortable there, because she has been there for so long.

The dogs were destroyed last week. They were an American bulldog cross, a border collie-mastiff cross and a Staffordshire bull terrier-border collie cross. All were unregistered. A police ...