Several Presidential Candidates have have issues related to dogs raised during the campaign.

• Google Blog Search: Candidates And Canines
• New York Times Blog: Its No Longer a Dogs World (December 17, 2007)
• Salon: Why do Republicans hate puppies? (December 17, 2007)
  • You know your friend who says he's moving to Canada if Candidate X gets elected? Well, if a Republican wins in November, it's your dog who's going to be fleeing the country. In fact, all three of the current frontrunners for the Republican nomination have at least one incident in their personal and/or family histories that will make Fido more frightened than that time you brought the vacuum cleaner too close to his tail.
• Daily Kos: The Republican War on Dogs (December 17, 2007)

• PERRspectives Blog: Giuliani's Dog Day Afternoon (December 1, 2007)
  • As it turns out, New York's Finest were in essence deployed as Nathan's domestic servants... to walk Nathan's dog.
• New York Post: Judi's Job with Pup-killer Firm (April 2, 2007)
  • Judith Giuliani once demonstrated surgical products for a controversial medical-supply company that used dogs - which were later killed - in operations whose only purpose was to sell equipment to doctors,
• Wonkette: "Dog-Killer-Marrier" to Be Added to Stock Rudy Description (April 2, 2007)

• Humane Society Legislative Blog: Mike Huckabee's Do-Nothing Approach to Protecting Animals (December 17, 2007)
• Newsweek: "Son's Past Could Come Back to Bite Huckabee" (December 24, 2007)
  • The former Arkansas governor is finding that his record in office is getting more scrutiny. One issue likely to get attention is his handling of a sensitive family matter: allegations that one of his sons was involved in the hanging of a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998.
• AlterNet: Huckabee Covered Up His Son's Torturing and Murdering of Dog (December 17, 2007)

• TIME: "Romney's Cruel Canine Vacation" (June 27, 2007)
  • The incident: dog excrement found on the roof and windows of the Romney station wagon. How it got there: Romney strapped a dog carrier - with the family dog Seamus, an Irish Setter, in it - to the roof of the family station wagon for a twelve hour drive from Boston to Ontario, which the family apparently completed, despite Seamus's rather visceral protest.
• ABC News: Did Romney's Dog Suffer on Car Roof? (June 29, 2007)
• BuzzFeed: Candidates and Canines