A bartender with a sick dog got an unexpected and amazing gesture of support from a stranger. Christina Summitt has a paw-print tattoo on her wrist which often leads to conversations with people about dogs. She has a dog of her own named Tucker, a Great-Dane/Labrador Mix, and volunteers with a pit bull rescue group….
by Mark Cowling Kenny Erickson and his girlfriend Ashley Preston are dog lovers, and when they heard someone was giving away a dog south of town, they went to see it. All they knew about it was it was a gray pit bull, stolen from Florence. After meeting the dog, a friendly blue nose pit…
Could the microbes in a dog’s gut have a positive probiotic effect on the human body? A team of researchers at the University of Arizona is setting out to determine whether dog saliva can be good for human health. Everyone who has a dog knows the positive effect they can have on your mood and…
Karma strikes! A car owner in China got a big dose of karma after he kicked a stray dog who was lying in his parking spot. After he was kicked the dog disappeared, but he returned a short time later with a few of his friends and began to trash the man’s car! A neighbor…
Soldier, a 2-year-old Pit Bull found wandering in a South Carolina neighborhood with a mysterious black and white photo tucked into his collar has found a forever family after no one stepped forward to claim the dog. The 2-year-old Pit Bull arrived at the shelter in South Carolina with an old, battered photo of a…
A video showing a spaniel racing to prevent a baby from getting too close to the dangerous sea shows just how protective dogs can be. In the video, the dog is seen playing fetch with his family at a beach near Kabak Bay in Turkey. The video then cuts to the baby crawling towards the…
She holds a Kennel Club Good Citizen Award and carries a litter-picking stick in her car trunk to clean up any broken glass she finds. But after leaving a clump of her dog’s fur in a park, a dog owner says she was labelled a “criminal” and fined for littering. Tracey Hayes was grooming her…
by Kim Scaccia My name is Kim; I’ve been working in dog rescue basically all my life. This last year in a half I’ve been working a lot online networking dogs through Facebook and sharing mostly local Euthanasia list to help dogs get rescued from the pound…. I was asked on December 21st, 2012 to…
Twenty-six Pit Bull Terriers were saved from a dog fighting ring after Hillsborough County Animal Services in Florida acted on an anonymous tip. The officers found the dogs in a backyard of a home that was surrounded by a 6-foot tall fence to prevent people from seeing in. An anonymous tipster called on the weekend…
A teenage boy is responsible for saving an elderly dog from drowning when the two happened to be visiting the same area of Chatfield Hollow State Park in Killingworth, Connecticut, at the same time. An elderly 15-year-old black lab named Casey, went for a swim in the pond. Casey soon became disoriented, fatigued and unable…
A year after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan’s coastal city of Miyako, one elderly woman has her loyal Shih Tzu to thank for being alive. Eighty-three year old Tami Akanuma says her dog, Babu, rescued her life during the March 11, 2011 earthquake. Babu does not normally like going for walks, but when the…
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