Don’t call her a guard dog. When she costs $230,000, as Julia did, the preferred title is “executive protection dog”. This 3-year-old German Shepherd , who commutes by private jet between a Minnesota estate and a home in Arizona, belongs to a canine caste that combines exalted pedigree, child-friendly cuddliness and arm-lacerating ferocity. Julia and [...]
First came the bedbugs. Then the bedbug-sniffing dogs. Now the pest industry is offering certification to companies that want to make sure their dogs and handlers really can sniff out the blood-sucking insects. In most cases, bedbugs don’t emit an odor that the human nose can detect, according to David Latimer, whose family runs a [...]
Life after the military is looking brighter than ever for America’s four-legged veterans since one of their own helped in the mission to kill Osama bin Laden. War dog organizations say the number of people asking about adopting retired military canines has risen dramatically since the mission involving Cairo, the Navy SEALs dog tasked with [...]
As the third longest-serving therapy dog in the country, she helps bring joy to those who need it most. Kayla, a 14-year-old former stray Labrador-mix, has been a therapy dog since 1998 soon after Lori Morgan, of Green, Ohio adopted her. One of Kayla’s biggest fans is 10-year old Joey Karam who sadly has had [...]
A decorated K-9 who helped investigators track down one of Maryland’s most dangerous arsonists has died. Misty, a 13-year-old Labrador Retriever, was instrumental in finding patterns at fire scenes, and as a result a task force was created to help capture Thomas A. Sweatt, an arsonist responsible for firebombing dozens of homes and killing two [...]
Legislation sponsored by Senators Fred Madden (D-Gloucester/Camden, New Jersey) and Donald Norcross (D-Camden/Gloucester, New Jersey ) that would enhance the penalties for intentionally killing an on-duty police or search and rescue dog was passed by the full Assembly. The measure was drafted in response to the November 30, 2010 killing of Schultz, a 3 1/2 [...]
He is the famed forensic anthropologist who once worked on the notorious Green River serial killings of young women around the Seattle area in the early 1980s. Now Dr. Bill Haglund is heading the exhumation work at the mass grave of the Whistler sled dogs. Haglund, who was contracted by the SPCA, says that when the [...]
On Friday, President Obama met with the Navy Seals that took down Osama Bin Laden to thank them for a job well done. He also met a certain four-legged member of the Seals that took out bin Laden, a Belgian Malinois named Cairo. A specially trained military dog, Cairo hit the ground with the Seals [...]
