As nearly anyone who has adopted a dog or cat from a shelter can attest, there’s something special about a rescued pet; it’s as if the animal senses he’s been given a second chance at life. That’s certainly the case with Juno, a Belgian Malinois who was rescued from a shelter just days before she [...]

This might be the feel good story of the year! Nala rocks and that chair is awesome! LOVELAND – Any pet owner will tell you that when you let a dog into your home, you let them into your heart as well. The McDonald family did that with a 6-month-old German Shepherd named Nala and [...]

Los Angeles police detectives are investigating the slaying of a man believed to be an Armenian American whose head rolled out of a plastic bag discovered by a dog off a trail below the Hollywood sign Tuesday afternoon. Two women were hiking with the dog in the rugged hills near the 3200 block of Canyon [...]

Would you pay $50,000 to clone your beloved dog? What if it cost less? So many questions arise as technology and science get cheaper and cheaper. But no matter how much it will devastate me when Max and Remy leave this Earth, and no matter how much I would LOVE to have them back, I [...]

If this doesn’t warm your heart, nothing will.

Lucy, a therapy dog from South Jersey, is quite the handful. Actually, she’s about half a handful. And as of Saturday, the 3-year-old mini Yorkshire terrier is the newly crowned “world’s smallest working dog” by the Guinness Book of World Records. Just 6 inches long, 5.7 inches high and 2.5 fluffy pounds, Lucy was unfazed [...]

When Elena Zakharova looks into the eyes of her puppy as it suffers from bad knees and achy hips, she does not see a defective product to be returned to the store for a refund. The New York City resident believes Umka, her 1-year-old Brussels Griffon, is a living soul who feels pain and emotion. [...]

In a new study, dogs who were spoken to or who had direct eye contact with a person were more likely to follow that human’s gaze as it moved across the room than if the person didn’t make direct eye contact with them. The skills are equivalent to what is seen in 6-month-old human infants, [...]