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 [...]

Coyote attacks in Sun City West, Arizona have spiked, sending at least six dogs to the vet in the last 10 days. Sun City West Animal Hospital says they’ve seen everything from puncture wounds to life-threatening injuries. Arizona Game and Fish says spring is coyote season, when the animals look for food in the cool [...]

A Chicago firefighter is The Dog Files’ latest hero after she brought not one, but two dogs back to life using CPR. Chicago Fire Dept. firefighter Tammy Rodriguez responded to a fire on the back porch of a home Friday afternoon and pulled two dogs from the blaze — an adult dog and a puppy, [...]

Great video by CBS News about how dogs are now an intrinsic part of our families.

They’re hungry, hurt and separated from owners who are either dead or in evacuation centers. They’re the hundreds of dogs who are struggling to survive amidst the desolation of Japan’s tsunami-ravaged northeast coast. Among the many rescue teams sent from around the world to search for survivors and bodies after Japan’s worst natural disaster for [...]

By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY Sleeping alongside your pets can make you sick. It’s rare, but it happens. That’s why good hygiene means keeping Fluffy and Spot next to the bed, not on it, two experts in animal-human disease transmission say in a forthcoming paper. More than 60% of American households have a pet, and [...]

BY DR. MARK E. PETERSON For Animal Endocrine Clinic We are an overweight society and our pets are no different. By far, the most common explanation for an overweight pet is simple: lack of exercise and too much to eat. But what if you feed your dog sensibly, exercise adequately, and your dog still has [...]