🦮 Crime-weary New Yorkers are teaching their pint-sized pooches to provide big-dog-sized protection, animal trainers told The Post.

A dog “is an amazing psychological deterrent to criminals — no matter its size,” said Bash Dibra, a Bronx-based author, Hollywood consultant and celebrity pet trainer.

A Turtle Bay dog mom said she “absolutely feels safer” on dangerous Gotham streets with Joey, the 16-pound chihuahua mix she adopted at the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 and had trained to tap into his inner lion.

Dogs are an especially effective deterrent against home invasions. FBI data shows that 95 percent of hoodlums will skip a residence if they hear barking, no matter the size of the animal.

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🔹In a crowded and combative Republican Senate primary that's become the most expensive race in the nation this year, Mehmet Oz has one thing that his rivals for the GOP nomination in Pennsylvania don’t have – massive name recognition.

Oz says he never expected that the Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary would get so 'ugly,' but vows to 'fight to protect myself.' "It’s a huge advantage to be known by everybody and not just that 96% of the time that they know me, it’s that they know me in a positive light," Oz, a well-known celebrity physician, cardiac surgeon, author and former longtime TV host of the popular

"Dr. Oz Show," acknowledged in a Fox News Digital interview. Looking ahead to Pennsylvania’s May 17 primary, Oz said, "Here’s the good news: Whoever survives the primary, they’re going to be really well tuned up for the general election, because I don’t know how much more Democrats can throw at us than we're already throwing at each other."

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⚡️LPR People's Militia confirmed that the explosion at the oil facility in Rovenky occurred as a result of a Ukrainian missile strike

⚡️ Google says it's banning Russian state media from running ads, monetisation across its services

⚡️🇰🇵 The US military has condemned the latest North Korea missile launch, while calling on Pyongyang to refrain from further destabilising acts

⚡️ The Roscosmos website under DDoS attack from various IP-addresses

⚡️ Russian MoD: Azov battalion used Grad systems to hit residential areas on Mariupol outskirts

⚡️ Russian military has destroyed total of 975 Ukrainian military targets, MoD says

❗️ Russian armed forces blocked Kherson, Berdyansk; took Genichevsk and Chernobaevka airfield under control - MoD

❗️ Russian MoD: Ukraine's 302nd anti-aircraft missile regiment in Kharkov region voluntarily laid down their weapons on Saturday; 471 servicemen were detained

⚡️ The Russian MoD says that LNR troops have established control over the Novookhtyrka, Smolyaninovo,and Stanychno-Luganskoye settlements

⚡️ Putin thanks Russian special op forces for heroically performing their military duty in Ukraine

⚡️ Ukrainian troops attacked 8 objects of civilian infrastructure, the DPR says

⚡️ One civilian has died in the past 24 hours, and four more were injured, DPR says

❗️ Rogozin said that the channels for managing the space industry, the orbital groups and the Russian segment of the ISS remain protected from cybercriminals.

⚡️ YouTube blocks Sputnik's Russian-language channel in Ukraine

⚡️ Kremlin: Russian delegation arrives in Belarus for talks with Ukrainians, ready to start in Gomel

⚡️DPR air defences destroy five Tochka-U missiles launched by Ukrainian forces

⚡️ Zelensky says that despite Peskov's announcement of the arrival of Russian delegation in Gomel, talks could be held in Warsaw or Istanbul, but not Minsk

⚡️ Ukrainian troops deploy five S-300 systems in the centre of Kramatorsk city as they continue to hide in residential areas - DPR's people's militia

⚡️ Google bans RT app from being downloaded in Ukraine at Kiev's behest