City seeks animal emergency volunteers
One of the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina — pretty much the same lesson the police officer in San Marcos, Texas learned — is that, no, it’s not just a dog. People will go to great...
View ArticleDog goes missing on Iditarod Trail
Race officials yesterday vowed to continue the search for a dog missing in the Iditarod. Nancy Yoshida, 58, of North Dakota, who was entered in her first Iditarod sled dog race, was forced to drop out...
View ArticleMissing Iditarod dog shows up after 3 days
Nigel, the Iditarod dog who left his team and took off into the Alaska wilderness after his musher’s sled was disabled, showed up Friday. The husky became separated from first-time competitor Nancy...
View ArticleBonnie & Clyde: A blind dog’s guide dog
When two stray border collies were taken in by Meadow Green Dog Rescue in England, operators of the shelter gave them names befitting a team — Bonnie and Clyde. Then they found out just how special a...
View ArticleRuby reassembled
A team of 40 vets and nurses, working around the clock for over two months, helped reassemble a three-year-old dog named Ruby after she was hit by a car. After a series of operations at a cost of...
View ArticleInseparably adoptable: Lily and Maddison
An animal shelter has received hundreds of offers of help after seeking a new home for an inseparable pair of Great Danes — one blind, the other her guide dog. The manager of Dogs Trust Shrewsbury...
View ArticleRSPCA seeks home for blind pug and friend
Once again, an animal welfare organization in the UK is seeking a home for a blind dog and her guide dog — this time, a pair of pugs. That’s Elly, the blind one, on the right. Franky, the black one,...
View ArticleDog ate Olympic hopefuls airline ticket
Between flight delays and her dog, it’s a wonder Kim Rhode, a member of the U.S. Olympic shooting team, made it to London at all. Her poodle Norman ate her airline ticket — and that was the least of...
View ArticleLouisiana Tech mascot dies of heat stroke
Tech XX, the English bulldog that served as mascot at Louisiana Tech University, died of heat stroke after being left out in the heat Sunday. Though initially reported missing, the four-year-old...
View ArticleDog in China stays by stricken friend’s side
After a stray dog was struck by a car in Zhangzhou, China, her canine companion stayed by her side for six hours, nudging her with his nose, licking her, and, according to a local butcher, even...
View Article“No comment” would have sufficed: TV reporter bitten while seeking interview
A woman who didn’t want to tell a TV news team “how she felt” about her daughter being shot threw a rock at them, shook a baseball bat at them, and then sent her dogs after reporter Abbey Niezgoda of...
View ArticleCity seeks animal emergency volunteers
One of the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina — pretty much the same lesson the police officer in San Marcos, Texas learned — is that, no, it’s not just a dog. People will go to great...
View ArticleEcuadorian stray becomes global celebrity after bonding with adventure racing...
That Ecuadorian street dog who befriended a Swedish adventure racing team after they tossed him a meatball is an official resident of Sweden now. Arthur, as the team named him, followed the extreme...
View ArticleWhat the Raven did to the gator and the dog
Once there was a Raven, an alligator and a dog, and the latter two were allegedly abused and neglected by the former. Apparently that’s all the information officials think we’re entitled to as the...
View ArticleProtecting animals just got a lot harder
For journalists, animal welfare activists and all Americans, accessing information that can help protect animals just got a lot harder. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday abruptly removed...
View ArticleUNC baseball team starts season with a service dog in the dugout
The University of North Carolina baseball team has welcomed a new teammate this year — a 2-year-old golden retriever named Remington. Remington isn’t there to be a mascot, though he has learned some...
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