'Modern Family' Star Unveils $500K Ala. Dog Park

It's a good time to be a dog if you're in the Birmingham, Ala., suburb of Alabaster. A star of ABC-TV's "Modern Family" series, Eric Stonestreet, was in the Shelby County city on Thursday to help introduce a $500,000 dog park that opened at a city park. The dog park was funded with a grant from Beneful dog food. It includes agility hoops; a path with tunnels; a field for playing fetch; water sprays for cooling off on hot days; and a wash station. On Thursday, dogs ran around on the grass, chased after balls and slurped up water at a fountain.

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Lucky Dog Survives Gas Chamber and Is Now Up for Adoption

Unnamed and unwanted, the young beagle mix was left anonymously in a drop box outside an Alabama pound. His life was supposed to end in a gas chamber. Instead, the young stray emerged frightened but unscathed, wagging his tail. Now, he's being hailed as a miracle dog, given the name Daniel after the biblical figure who survived the lion's den. And he has a fresh start in New Jersey, where a rescue group hopes to find him a good home.

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