Sean Kiel is a no-nonsense guy with a gruff voice and a tough demeanor. A truck driver for 30 years, he describes himself as an “alpha male” who tends to keep his emotions “hidden pretty well.” But get him talking about the curly white Bichon Frise he helped rescue from a dark life in a [...]

An afternoon hike turned into an overnight ordeal when a couple, whose 80-pound dog joined them for the trek, couldn’t make it back down the trail. Officials said the dog, Baxter, a Labrador mix, suffered cuts to his paws from rocks on the trail at the Angeles National Forest, just north of San Dimas, California. [...]

It’s an absolute miracle he survived. Searchers have found the pet dog that survived unharmed following a plane crash in Yoho National Park, British Columbia that killed its owner. Parks Canada employees found Rusty, a six-year-old Border Collie, a short distance from the mountainside where Ed Fedaj died when his single-engine plane crashed Wednesday afternoon. [...]

Due to a high percentage of Bulldog deaths on their planes, Delta announced that they are banning dogs from that particular canine family on all future flights. The new no-fly list was created in response to a Delta study that showed that 6 of the 16 pet deaths on the airline were from the bulldog [...]

From The Week.com Several dogs have escaped or died (or both) while in Delta’s care over the past nine months. Is the airline being negligent with our pets? Delta Air Lines is getting unfavorable publicity over the recent escape and subsequent death of Nala, an 8-year-old German shepherd, during a stopover at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport. [...]

At this point I would really think twice before transporting my dogs by air. – Kenn By Adriana Padilla for PeterGreenberg.com. Atlanta, GA. — An 8-year-old German Shepherd that escaped her carrier on a Delta Air Lines flight at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport three days before Christmas has been found dead by a highway crew. The [...]

You can add dog bites to the list of things passengers and flight attendants have to contend with at 30,000 feet. That was the case this morning on board US Airways flight 522 when a small dog travelling in the passenger cabin was let out of its carrier by its owner. The dog promptly bit [...]

By Darron Kloster for Time Colonist BRITISH COLUMBIA – Meet Cliff, a four-month-old chocolate lab with big puppy paws, an over-waggy tail and a drunken-sailor swagger. As dogs with jobs go, Cliff’s landed a peach of a position. No drug sniffing or dodging bullets like his K9 counterparts, no navigational hazards like his seeing-eye colleagues [...]