JAMESTOWN, N.D. – Assessments of the 28 dogs rescued from a hoarding situation over the weekend revealed that they could potentially need up to $ 10,000 for medical care.
“They are all settling in and letting us handle them, whereas the first day, they were scared,” said Kris Meidinger, dog manager with the James River Humane Society. “They were terrified. They’re doing a lot better today.”
Police in Washington state and Colorado are trying to teach old dogs to unlearn an old trick.
For as long as dogs have been trained to assist police officers, they’ve been helping make drug busts. But now that the recreational use of marijuana is legal in those two states, officers are in a K-9 quandary.
“We’ll have to look for other indicators,” said Bob Calkins of the Washington State Patrol. “We’ll have to develop cases other ways.”
Dogs with obsessive compulsive disorder show nearly the same brain abnormalities of humans who have OCD, a new study finds.
The discovery, published in Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, adds another notch to the dog-human connection and holds promise for better treatments for OCD.
“While the study sample was small and further research is needed, the results further validate that dogs with CCD (Canine Compulsive Disorder) can provide insight and understanding into anxiety disorders that affect people,” Nicholas Dodman, a professor of clinical sciences at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University who worked on the study, said in a press release.
More than 150 dogs removed from an unlicensed breeding facility operation in northern Michigan last week have been placed with animal welfare organizations throughout the Midwest, according to an anti-animal cruelty group.
On May 23, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Michigan Humane Society assisted local law enforcement and an animal shelter in removing the dogs from JRT John’s Jack Russell and Shiba Inu Kennel in Lake City, an hour south of Traverse City, according to the ASPCA.
There was a time when Hawkeye the dog stood amidst the most humblest of life’s predicaments.
He was confined to a kennel in Georgia, his days playing-out in a small concrete cell.
But this was one of those occasions where fate interceded, drawing open a rusted chain link door to an unpredicted path. In this case, Hawkeye’s keen nose led him to a new life as an agriculture-sniffing canine sleuth.
“Hawkeye finds a lot of things there’s no way we would’ve been able to find,” said Tino Menchaca, Hawkeye’s handler with the Santa Clara Agricultural Department.
The Akita dog is an AKC registered dog breed. The following article reviews the breed.
Akita dogs are big dogs that need plenty of training to turn them into them a good friendly house dog. Having an Akita dog is not like owning any other dog. This is a huge assertive dog that by nature is domineering and will look to take authority of a group or family. If you are thinking about owning an Akita dog then you really need to do your homework before taking the plunge. The dog can be very challenging and is not for everyone
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Where My Dogs At is a new social networking app angled at dog lovers and their four-legged friends looking for local dog-friendly places to go and people to meet.
Think Facebook for Fido, with a “Yelp for dogs” approach, built around a location-based search and rating of dog-friendly businesses, restaurants, parks and apartments with detailed listings and user reviews.
Rather than “checking in,” users “mark their territory” at their favorite locations, interact with fellow dog lovers and let their friends know which places and businesses have earned their “paw of approval.”
Dogs are more than man’s best friend: They may be partners in humans’ evolutionary journey, according to a new study.
The study shows that dogs split from gray wolves about 32,000 years ago, and that since then, domestic dogs‘ brains and digestive organs have evolved in ways very similar to the brains and organs of humans.
The findings suggest a more ancient origin for dog domestication than previously suggested. They also hint that a common environment drove both dog and human evolution for thousands of years.
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The American Heart Association (AHA) has declared that pets, especially dogs, are good for a person’s heart. Further proof that dogs are among the best friends a person could have.
Dr. Glenn N. Levine, director of Baylor University’s cardiac care unit, was quoted in a press release from the AHA saying, “Pet ownership, particularly dog ownership, is probably associated with a decreased risk of heart disease.”
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