The Search Dog Foundation based in Ojai, California sent a dozen teams from around the country to Japan. The team that flew on a chartered plane to a US Navy Base in Japan and then drove six hours to get to the most devastated areas. Some of the dogs are credited with finding people buried [...]

Thanks to her dog, Sam, there’s no mischief that 11-year old Joy Cahill can get away with. You see, Sam, a 3-year-old Labrador/spaniel, is not only Joy’s canine playmate he is also her service dog. Joy, born with Down syndrome, also suffers from respiratory distress and epilepsy. She has supplemental oxygen and a feeding tube. [...]

By Elaine Furst For Dog Files DreamWorks has picked up the film rights to writer/cartoonist/Pulitzer Prize winner Berkeley Breathed’s children’s book, Flawed Dogs: The Year-End Leftovers at the Piddleton ‘Last Chance’ Dog Pound’. Featuring artwork that is reminiscent of Salavador Dali’s surreal, almost psychedelic style, Flawed Dogs is an illustrated tale of doggy “undesirables.” In a [...]