Loyal Dog Who Stayed By Dead Dog's Side Reunited With Family
LOS ANGELES – A loyal Labrador retriever named Maggie, who was videotaped as she guarded the body of a yellow Lab hit and killed by a car in Southern California, was reunited with her family Monday. A good Samaritan saw what was happening on Hacienda Boulevard in La Puente last Wednesday, called officers, put traffic […]
Detection Dogs Used To Find Pythons In Everglades: Video
Brought to Florida by the exotic pet trade, and set free in the Everglades, the Southeast Asian snakes are normally about 12 feet long but can reach lengths of up to 19 feet. Opportunistic eaters, pythons have all but wiped out marsh rabbits, opossums, and raccoons in the southern region of Everglades National Park, according […]
Vet Office Employs Dog: Cute Video
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Courtroom Dogs Spark Legal Debate
Simon is only three years old but already an indispensable staffer at his office, where he has displayed a knack for helping abused children navigate an intimidating legal system. He is also a lean, jet-black Labrador Retriever. Simon’s job is to comfort children testifying or being interviewed in court cases, a normally stressful environment. His […]
Bomb-Sniffing Canines Named After 9/11 Victims
Chicago Police Officer Nick Spencer finds the best reminder of what his job is about at the end of a leash. There, sniffing packages, garbage cans and even commuters at a downtown subway stop is Gillis — a 3-year-old black Labrador Retriever named after New York Police Department Sgt. Rodney Gillis, who died when the […]
Man's Best Friend Can Be Trained To Sniff Out Lung Cancer
The uncanny canine ability to detect smells that escape the human nose could be used for the early detection of lung cancer, according to new study. It is the first study to show that “sniffer” dogs can be relied upon to find the unique smell of the disease in seven out of 10 sufferers. This […]
Texas Dog Comes Home With Human Hand
A family dog in Mission, Texas brought home a severed human hand Thursday, launching a search that turned up the body of a suspected unauthorized immigrant. Sgt. Jody Tittle said police were called to a residence around 8:25 a.m. on reports that the family’s black Labrador Retriever had the hand in its mouth. Police searched […]
Owner of Dogs That Killed Black Lab Is Arrested In Oxford, Connecticut
Owners of a mauled dog say they are happy the owner of the other dogs is finally taking responsibility. The owner of four large Newfoundland dogs that mauled and killed a smaller Labrador Retriever at a Connecticut park last week has been arrested. Vicaie Tkacz (pronounced Vicky Kach), 37, of Oxford, Connecticut turned herself in […]
Lost Dog Made Incredible 1,200 Mile Journey
When Buster disappeared from his home in Colorado, his owner spent hours agonizing over his fate. But despite thinking about all the different possibilities, including that her beloved Labrador Retriever had been stolen or eaten by a lion, Samantha Squires could never have imagined what really happened to him. Yet miraculously, six months after Buster […]