Here’s a wonderful video of two playmates having a great time, despite their size and species differences. Lucy is a two-year-old mixed Portuguese water dog, and Whiskey Brown is a four-year-old Quarter Horse stallion. According to their owner: . . .
Here’s a wonderful story about a dog saved from horrible neglect, chained in a backyard in North Carolina, who has found a forever home with a family that seems tailor-made for her. The poor pit bull’s previous owner hadn’t even bothered to give her a name because she is. . .
Reddit.com refers to itself as “the front page of the Internet,” but it’s really a social news website where folks post links to pretty much anything they find interesting or funny. The content can be pretty vulgar and sophomoric, so I don’t recommend that anyone easily offended visit the site, but what makes Reddit relevant to this blog is that members frequently post pictures of their dogs. The other day, someone posted a picture of himself holding his Golden Retriever like a. . .
Thankfully, sometimes the bad guys lose, and Christopher Young is a case in point. Last January, Young approached a young woman in Washington, D.C. who was walking her pet Yorkshire terrier. The criminal mastermind leaped into action. He pointed a handgun at the woman and said, . . .
One of the many dog stories to come out of this week’s tragedy in Oklahoma was the tale of a little black dog found guarding the body of its owner. It was a sad story of loss and loyalty. But it turns out not to be true.
Last night, the Oklahoma Country Sheriff’s Department released this statement: . . .
Ask a dozen people on the street how you get the skunk smell out of a dog, and I bet half will say “tomato juice.” But real dog-savvy folks know that this traditional “cure” is anything but. The “secret formula” that really does work was created by a chemist named Paul Krebaum, who published his findings in Chemical & Engineering News in 1993. But the formula didn’t really enter the public consciousness until. . .
A story on nj.com offers a series of photos that show the transformation of Misty—a dog found in the streets of Brooklyn after being used as a “bait dog” in a dog-fighting ring—from a wounded warrior to a healthy and content house dog. Some of the early photos are hard to look at, but they make Misty’s recovery even
Brandon Patterson was serving in Iraq when he learned that his beloved dog, Alfaba, had run away, escaping through a hole in a fence. When he returned Stateside, he looked everywhere, and he couldn’t bring himself to give up and get another dog. The reason he couldn’t find her, he now knows, was that she was being kept in the house of an. . .
Stories of survival and hope continue to come out of Oklahoma, this time from a tornado on Sunday that tore through the town of Twin lakes. Meaghan Hadley is doing heroic work, rounding up dogs that were separated from. . .
The prevalence of smartphone have brought us to the point where folks are absolutely frustrated if they don’t have all the information they need at their fingertips, which has led to companies devising new ways to get us that info we desperately crave. A new app called Where My Dogs At attempts to offer Los Angeles dog owners new ways of interacting with their. . .