A dozen prisoners shoveled snow to help clear a stray dog shelter housing 300 dogs just outside Bucharest on Monday, as temperatures plummeted to five degrees Fahrenheit.

A pair of dog skulls uncovered in digs in Siberia and Belgium, each 33,000 years old, show dogs were domesticated long before any other animal, including sheep, cows or goats. The skulls had shorter snouts and wider jaws than wild animals, such as wolves, which use their long snouts to hunt. It suggests dogs were [...]

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UNITED KINGDOM — A dog was caught in a hollowed out hole after getting stuck 20ft up an oak tree. Tyson the Jack Russell was rescued by firefighters after dashing into the hollow tree and getting trapped halfway up. It took more than six hours and a team of five men to free the tiny [...]

A father died after falling through an icy pond while saving his family’s stranded puppy. William Tuttle, 45, crawled across the frozen surface in Fountain, Colorado after fearing Brock was drowning. But, just as he reached the dog, the ice gave way and the father-of-two plunged into the freezing water. He had just enough time [...]

Killer whales in Puget Sound aren’t doing very well. They were placed on the endangered species list in 2005, and there are several hypotheses for why they’re not recovering. In Puget Sound, a team of researchers is relying on a secret weapon with a killer nose to figure out what’s wrong with the orcas in [...]

A Jersey City, New Jersey woman, whose dangerous dogs had been impounded since she violated an order to send them away, apparently took the dogs home in the chaos as Hurricane Irene approached. “We believe there is evidence she had them but it was in the context of the evacuation of the shelter,” said Hudson [...]

The so-called “Dog Days” of summer in the Northern Hemisphere officially came to an end this week when Sirius, the bright Dog Star, returned to the night sky. Everyone talks about “Dog Days,” but few may know what the expression actually means. Some might suggest it signifies hot, sultry days “not fit for a dog.” [...]