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Steve Lindsay, a public health entomologist at Durham University, is midway through explaining how dogs might play a role in detecting COVID-19 infections when a decidedly less-well trained canine interrupts our conversation. “If you’ll excuse me for a minute, I’ve got a naughty black Labrador out in the back garden ...

People For Animals (PFA) in Mysuru is cracking down on illegal dog breeders in the city owing to high rates of animal abuse. The PFA located an illegal backyard dog breeder at Udbur on the outskirts of the city with the help of the local animal welfare officials and the ...

In a two-hour long surgery, tumour weighing 700grams was removed from the neck of a stray dog. According to Dr P Biju, the tumour which was hanging on the ventral side of the neck was a life threatening one as the animal could not consume food. The surgery was successful ...

Military dogs could soon be relaying live visuals of their area of operation to their handlers sitting afar via Augmented Reality (AR) goggles. The system is based on Microsoft’s Hololens technology and was created by A.J. Peper, founder of Seattle-based firm Command Sight. He added an optoelectronic component, which converts ...

Baskin and Agnes got their full-time jobs at MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital through the Dunkin’ Joy in Childhood Foundation’s Dogs for Joy program. Baskin and Agnes are on duty. The two therapy dogs recently started working full-time at MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. Both Baskin, ...

A little boy was filmed showing off some stellar bhangra moves to a couple of dogs. While the child’s talent on the dance floor – or the road, in this case – impressed many, it was the reaction of the two canines that got the most laughs. In the video ...

Dogs can be great stress-busters. And they are proving exactly that for soldiers of 44 Rashtriya Rifles who have found comfort in the company of two-year-old Rosh, a labrador whose ever-bubbling energy provides an instant relief after a hard day of patrolling. Rosh is among the six mute sentinels who ...

The Syrian mountain dog — who was rescued as a starving puppy last winter by a US airman — was released from a month-long federal quarantine at JFK Airport on Thursday, and the two will soon be reunited. After finally being cleared by customs and the CDC, the pooch can ...

At a time when coronavirus pandemic has kept the people on a tight leash, the dogs are becoming victims of the dreaded brain fever virus en masse. The disease was first sighted among the street dogs. Now, a large number of dogs are dying of this disease. The people are ...

Pet parents know all too well that their fur babies can often have some rather confusing traits. From cats that love to play fetch to dogs that only like to pick up the longest sticks from the yard, the list of confusing things pets can do is rather diverse . ...