A runaway dog found padding through treacherous traffic and heavy rain on New Jersey’s Bayonne Bridge toward Staten Island last Tuesday night has been reunited with its Bayonne, New Jersey family. Hailey’s adventure began on Tuesday when she slipped out of the front-yard gate at her home, her owner Melissa Perez said. The yellow Labrador [...]
A farmworker who says he learned how to lasso 30 years ago while working on a cattle ranch in Mexico still knows his ropes. Jesus Villanueva was working last week when he heard a disturbance along the Roza irrigation canal in Yakima, Washington. As it turned out, a woman and her husband were trying to [...]
An afternoon hike turned into an overnight ordeal when a couple, whose 80-pound dog joined them for the trek, couldn’t make it back down the trail. Officials said the dog, Baxter, a Labrador mix, suffered cuts to his paws from rocks on the trail at the Angeles National Forest, just north of San Dimas, California. [...]
He’s a dog of war whose courage has saved the lives of dozens of British soldiers. So when Hobo, a two-year-old black Labrador, was seriously wounded while searching for Taliban bombs in Afghanistan, his best friends fought to keep him alive. Now just 10 days after he was almost killed by shrapnel after coming under [...]
Colorado prisoners have trained hundreds of dogs rescued from shelters as part of a work program that began in 2002. But Clyde, a chocolate Labrador, is one of the first dogs trained to meet the needs of a child with autism such as nine year old Zack Tucker. The credit for this particular achievement goes [...]
