What Pets Can Teach Us About Marriage
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It Takes More Than Paper To Raise A Puppy
If you like The Dog Files please join our Facebook Fan Page at http://www.facebook.com/dogfiles Also, follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/dogfiles By Jill Abramson for New York Times ALL last week, like clockwork, Scout sneaked into our bedroom and licked my face at 3:25 a.m. Precisely. Talk about an unwelcome wake-up call. It reminded me […]
The Best Walking Partner: Man Vs. Dog
If you like The Dog Files please join our Facebook Fan Page at http://www.facebook.com/dogfiles Also, follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/dogfiles By Tara Parker-Pope For The New York Times Is it better to walk a human or to walk a dog? New research from the University of Missouri has found that people who walk dogs […]
Picked From A Lineup, On A Whiff Of Evidence
By John Schwartz For The New York Times HOUSTON — A dog’s sniff helped put Curvis Bickham in jail for eight months. Now that the case against him has been dropped, he wants to tell the world that the investigative technique that justified his arrest smells to high heaven. The police told Mr. Bickham they […]
Good Dog, Smart Dog
By Sarah Kershaw For The New York Times Life as a Labradoodle may sound free and easy, but if you’re Jet, who lives in New Jersey, there is a lot of work to be done. He is both a seizure alert dog and a psychiatric service dog whose owner has epilepsy, severe anxiety, depression, various […]
Exploring the Health Benefits of Pets
By Carla Baranauckas For The New York Times When Chad, a yellow Labrador retriever, moved in with Claire Vaccaro’s family in Manhattan last spring, he already had an important role. As an autism service dog, he was joining the family to help protect Ms. Vaccaro’s 11-year-old son, Milo — especially in public, where he often […]
Polish Police Raid Dog Fight, 18 Men Detained
Reuters WARSAW (Reuters) – A large police squad raided a dog-fight venue in western Poland Saturday and detained 18 men in what is believed to be the country’s first such incident, police said. “Our 50-strong task force comprising criminal, riot and anti-terrorist police entered a barn in the village of Kapiel near Gniezno while a […]
Walking the Dog To Draw Attention To A Cause
By Jennifer 8. Lee for The New York Times If you missed Craft Beer Week’s pub crawl (also known as the Path of Yeast Resistance), you can still make it to Saturday’s Pup Crawl — a pet-accompanied march across the Brooklyn Bridge intended to bring attention to the dogs and cats at risk of losing […]
Large Dogs in Public Housing Are Now Endangered Species
By Manny Fernandez for The New York Times Tyson was a tough-looking, head-turning dog — a 60-pound, year-old Staffordshire bull terrier with a silver-gray coat and blue eyes. But the only thing tough about him was his name, his owner said. Tyson followed commands, never bit anyone and liked to put his paws on people’s […]