AUSTRALIA – Phil Newton could not believe his eyes when he saw a dog driving a 20-ton, double-decker bus through Darwin’s industrial zone. “I thought, ‘What the … ‘!” he said. “This was weird, even for the Territory.” Mr Newton, 30, said the dog was sitting in the driver’s seat with its paws on the [...]

Poor old Patches was on death row at a dog pound in Mildura, Australia and had to prove his identity by singing songs he yodelled along to at family parties. The dog’s elderly master had recently passed away and in the confusion that followed, Patches ended up impounded. But against all odds, a Victorian Dog [...]

In a new YouTube video that has gone viral, a dog is seen diving into water off the coast of Australia in pursuit of (and possibly biting) a lurking shark. In a second video uploaded in 2006 that has since racked up over 27 million views, a dog jumps off a boat, bites into a [...]

The devotion of Jessie’s owner never wavered as he moved the earth, literally, to save her life. Jessie, a 4-year old Jack Russell Terrier from Victoria, Australia, was trapped under 45 tons of solid rock for seven days while her desperate owner Steve Porter, fought to set her free. The drama began when Porter was [...]

How Do You Get Your Dog Off Death Row? By Stealing Him Back A man from Perth, Australia was desperate to get his beloved dog off death row and did the only thing he could think of to save his dog’s life. He broke into the pound where the dog was being held after a [...]

Red Dog is an Australian Movie due out in 2011, based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master. Here is the star, Koko’s adorable screen test.

By Cait Bester For The Cairns Post Australia — A KURANDA woman jumped into floodwaters to rescue a drowning dog then gave it mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to bring it back to life. Petra Lovey yesterday told how she jumped into the Barron River after seeing Jerzy the border collie-cross dive into the swollen waters and get [...]

Click to join our Facebook Fan Page and follow us on Twitter! From ABCNews.com The explosives detection dog killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan this month, has been honoured at a memorial service in South Australia. Herbie and Sappers Darren Smith and Jacob Moerland were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan last Monday. [...]