If you’ve ever lost something important, you know the panic an Albuquerque woman felt when she couldn’t find her $4,500 wedding ring. But as it turns out, she wasn’t just absentminded — there was a thief afoot. To be more precise, a thief on four feet.
As the theory goes, when a dog lives for 26 years, he’s actually lived the equivalent of 182 people years. That’s a long time for anyone and it was a long time for Pusuke, the world’s oldest dog, who passed away Monday.
It’s cold and flu season again. While that means many people will be getting flu shots, there’s one member of the family you may not realize needs one too: your dog.
The H3N8 virus, identified in 2004 and commonly known as “dog flu,” has sickened thousands of dogs in 38 states. Currently there are outbreaks in the New York metropolitan area and near San Antonio, Texas, with other states like Pennsylvania and Colorado reporting epidemics throughout the year, as well.
Whatever else happens with the Occupy Wall Street movement, it will always been known as the setting in which a jumpy bulldog named Frenchie and reserved police horse become fast friends. Watch the inter-species buddies get to know each other below.
This photo has been circulating the internet over the last couple days, eliciting cooing sounds and begging the question “Is this the cutest puppy ever?” Honestly, we can’t decide if it’s cute or ridiculously creepy.
Little Katelyn was feeling safe and secure in her bumbo when the family dog let out a loud bark and rocked the tot’s world. While she reacted with a dramatic hand motion and a few seconds of crying she quickly recovers from the shock, and goes back to feeling safe and secure.
While pets are usually ambivalent about the Halloween costumes their owners dress them in, Tangent the chihuahua seems pretty pleased with the added firepower of his spiffy tank get up.
The tank, which took first prize at the local Petsmart’s Halloween contest, features a gun that lights up and makes shooting sounds when Tangent’s owner pulls a trigger on her side of the leash.
Though it takes him a little while to figure out the proper plan of attack, a dog named Stubs is able to climb a tree in order to retrieve a stick his owner put up there. Good boy!
Check out the industrious pooch in the video below.
This pooch was able to stay perfectly still as his owner built a Jenga-like tower of tempting dog treats right on his snout. Then the canine continues the balancing act until getting a signal that the trick is over.
While there are wheeled contraptions available to give mobility to handicapped pets, the Amigo — a new wheelchair from industrial designer Nia Shalom — is specially optimized for the way pups move.
July 7, 2011 Listener calls into the KBear morning show and asks if we announce lost dogs. In all fairness to dog lovers, I do announce lost or found dogs
It's not just the human spirit that can show amazing resiliency in times of crisis.
A dog named Mason who was blown out of his home when a tornado tore through North Smithfield, Alabama on April 27 crawled back three weeks later. And we do mean crawled.
