A German Shepherd Dog named Haus is fighting for his life after defending his 7-year-old owner from a snake. On Wednesday, March 11, Molly DeLuca was in her grandmother’s Tampa backyard with Haus when a venomous eastern diamondback rattlesnake approached them, Fox 13 reported. Haus positioned himself between Molly and the snake, taking three bites, […]

When it comes to dogs, the future is now. In the film Back to the Future II, Marty McFly, his girlfriend, and Doc used a time machine to send themselves to October 21, 2015—30 years ahead of the year they live in, 1985. The future, as imagined in the ’80s, didn’t get it all quite […]

For many at-risk youth in New York City, violence and crime is an inescapable fact of life. But Audrey Hendler is hoping to change that, with the help of about 25 four-legged teaching assistants. In 2010, Hendler launched A Fair Shake for Youth, a program that brings therapy dogs into middle schools in under-served communities […]

An Australian Shepherd who became lost after a car accident in Yellowstone National Park and lived in the wild for 44 days is finally home with her family. On July 23, Dave Sowers and his girlfriend, Laura Gillice, were involved in a serious head-on car crash while visiting the park. Sowers' dog, Jade, whose plastic […]

Bad news for people who love to hug their dog. While some canines, especially those trained as therapy dogs, can tolerate this interaction, in general, dogs do not enjoy it. Dogs rely on body language as a method of communication with humans and each other. Putting a limb over another dog is a way of […]

>Robby's Law, and instead gave the dogs out to civilians, including three Pentagon employees. Henderson and Solis, the Post reported, picked up the 12 dogs from K2 Solutions and then turned them over to Meredith for caretaking until they could be sold to the Panamanian government. But paperwork from K2 dictated that the dogs were […]

A dozen four-legged heroes bravely served our country overseas, saving thousands of American lives. But for the past year and a half, they’d been living in limbo at a kennel in Chester, Virginia, while a contract company who purchased the dogs from the Department of Defense tried to place them as therapy dogs. The new […]

A couple was so frustrated with their Labrador Retriever eating things he shouldn’t that they shelled out almost $38,000 on a new dog-proof kitchen. The dog, named Rollo, had learned how to open cabinets and the refrigerator, the Daily Mail reported, and had even used a trampoline to get apples off of the apple tree […]

“You might be able to fool a kiosk, but you can’t fool a canine’s nose.” Those words were spoken by Paul Nardella, CBP Assistant Port Director for the Area Port of Philadelphia, after a woman who was traveling from Athens, Greece, to Philadelphia with almost $40,000 of undeclared currency and plants was caught by a […]

Last week was a hard one for police K9s and their handlers. Two canine cops were killed by gunfire, including Jethro, who worked with police in Canton, Ohio, and was shot on Saturday, January 9, while apprehending a burglary suspect. He later died from his injuries. Two days later, K9 Krijger, a four-year-old Belgian Malinois […]