Hayley Mattoon is the team manager at Dana Point’s OC Pup Scouts, and here are her favorite trials for walking dogs. What’s your job as a team manager? I consider it as one of the best jobs you can find around the world. We do free dropoff and pickups in ...

Champ Biden, one of two German shepherds belonging to President Biden and his family has died, the president and first lady Jill Biden announced late Saturday morning. He was 13 years old. “Our hearts are heavy today,” Biden and first lady Jill Biden wrote in a statement, adding that the dog ...

Some puppies were able to take directions from humans without any training. While dogs can eventually learn to listen to their owners, some pups seem to be born with an innate ability to understand humans, research published Thursday in the journal Current Biology suggests. At just 8 weeks old, some ...

A woman trained her pet Dalmatian to be the first of his breed to qualify as a disability support dog via a national scheme. Katie Baldock, from Nottingham, who has nemaline myopathy which causes muscle weakness, helped train her dog Digby to perform day-to-day tasks. Digby is now able to ...

Nail trims are feared by many dogs and owners. Not only do a lot of pups fight against being restrained, but if the owners accidentally cut off too much, their nails will bleed and hurt. Over time, dogs become more and more apprehensive and many owners completely give up cutting ...

Buddy is brand new to rescue and ISO a foster or forever home. He is a waggy tail, happy 5 ish-year-old, copper-colored beagle mix boy that just loves to play. Buddy is a friendly fellow that likes people and gets along well with other dogs. He would love a fenced ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dogs are able to detect Covid-19 in humans, a new study showed, paving the way for the broader use of sniffing canines in a global effort to contain the pandemic. The dogs’ detection reached 97% sensitivity in the French study, meaning that’s how well the canines could identify positive samples. ...

Sheldon has a nose for solving arson cases, and he proved it on his very first day at work. The dog — part golden retriever, part black labrador — was trained by State Farm Insurance to use his incredibly sensitive snout to detect fuels and other accelerants, when authorities suspect ...