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Lady Gaga’s dog walker Ryan Fischer is opening up about how he’s been coping since the violent February kidnapping of the Born This Way singer’s two dogs, during which Fischer was shot and critically injured. In an Instagram post on Monday, Fischer said that over the past several weeks he’s been confronted by people who remind ...

Tuesday morning, Sheriff Tyler Brown swore in Rex, a 10-week-old black Labrador retriever puppy. He’s the department’s first therapy dog and will be teamed up with School Resource Officer Deputy John Gray. The pair will be assigned to all the elementary schools in the Littleton Public School District (LPS) within ...

Work on starting the city’s second dog sterilisation centre, which is being set up at Raipur Kalan, has got delayed as no doctor or NGO has showed interest in the sterilisation contract. The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation had floated a tender in this regard, but no one filed bids till April ...

Hyderabad: When the pandemic hit last year, animal activists Panneru Teja and Pridhvi, Netra Borah, Sai Teja Gaddam, Shalini Chandrashekhar, and Pradeep Yerra knew that like every calamity that struck mankind, animals would be forgotten in the mayhem. And so, they decided to help out pet owners who tested positive for ...

Google identifies itself as “a dog company” for a long time, thanks to a Leonberger that started it all. Here is a look at the tech major’s extremely accommodating policies towards its canine friends. HIGHLIGHTS Google had its first canine visitor in 1999, a Leonberger named Yoshka. Since then, the ...

Dogs have been loved by humans for centuries and while we’ve all heard the saying, “man’s best friend,” dogs’ bonds with women are as equally strong. In addition to being constant companions, dogs provide an emotional connection that at times rivals the ones we have with other humans. And that ...

Two-year-old Lex is back home with his ‘little’ big brother Jack, playing in the backyard as if nothing happened. Two weeks ago, the scene was different. Lex wanted to be let outside, to roam amongst the gated yard. “So I let him out,” said Lex’s owner Jon Rollins. “And then ...

NEW DELHI: A dog shelter run by an elderly woman, Pratima Devi, fondly called Amma, near the PVR Anupam complex in Saket has seen many cases of canines being abandoned by their owners during the second Covid-19 wave. The helpers at the shelter have reported over 15 such recent cases. The surge in the number of infections has also dried up donations. ...

The Baltimore County Fire Department rescued a dog stuck in a dam after traveling through a tunnel system, according to fire officials. Around 2:40 p.m. on Friday, the Providence Volunteer Fire Company of Towson, the Baltimore Fire Department and the Baltimore Environmental Police were called to an animal rescue at the ...

Sniffer dogs could contribute to efforts to prevent the spread of Covid as society reopens, according to scientists. As part of a trial, dogs were trained to recognise a distinctive odour produced by people with the virus, but undetectable to the human nose. This could come in useful for screening ...