Some people who get a dog should never be allowed to. They either don’t know or don’t care about how to take care of a pet. Fortunately, though, there are also people out there who ...
Putting a pet to sleep is an extremely difficult decision and one that shouldn’t be taken lightly. When the time came for Maria Henry Gay and her family’s dog Buffy, she knew she had to ...
K9 officers are an invaluable part of the police force. These dogs perform essential duties like tracking down missing people and criminals. Their human coworkers often grow attached to the dogs—it’s like having both a ...
Back in August 2016, the cross-country running team at St. Joseph High School in Santa Maria, California decided they’d like to invite their local shelter dogs along for a run. And the staff at Santa Barbara County Animal ...
The panic when two parents, who thought their 5-year-old child was with the other one, realized she was missing was immeasurable. It was in the remote Siberian village of Olom that Karina Chikitova went missing. ...
Bailey the dog is an old hand at birthdays. In fact, he’s seen no less than 13 of them come and go during the course of his life. Even so, upon watching him celebrate you’d ...
Service dogs provide invaluable help and companionship to people in need. They’re no ordinary dogs, but dogs specially trained to perform certain tasks and provide crucial medical assistance when needed. Maybe the most important service ...
It’s a commonly held belief that dogs and mail carriers are mortal enemies. Many of us have seen our pets mistake the mailman for an intruder and try to bark him off the property. But ...
It’s unbelievable how some people can heartlessly abandon their dogs, tossing them away to fend for themselves, leaving the dogs confused to why their family suddenly isn’t there to take care of them. But one ...
Surrendering your pet to an animal shelter has to be a last resort for most people. You would hope that people would know that taking on a pet in the first place is a big ...