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The North Carolina Highway Patrol is starting from scratch when it comes to its canine unit. The department is getting rid of all its German Sheppard Malinois dogs and going with a new breed.
source: WTVW, IN
“We started this back in 1999, trying to get a dog park established in Evansville,” she said. “And, we finally have one. … The park is currently one enclosed acre. But, E-DOG could expand it to as much as eight acres if there’s enough demand.
source: Dallas Morning News, TX
The Coppell-based team is a volunteer organization that operates in conjunction with – and at no charge to – government agencies. It has 33 members, who care for 22 dogs.
Search One’s executive director is Paul Lake, who founded the group in 1983. The team searches for missing people and human remains. […]
source: USA Today
Pilots are donating their time, planes and fuel to transport dozens of dogs a month from overcrowded shelters where they face almost certain death to rescue groups and shelters several states away that are committed to finding them homes.
source: Bark Blog by Lisa Wogan
The little lime-green collar gadgets use radio, software, Internet and social networking technologies to allow humans to monitor their pup’s activity and spark up new relationships — all from a distance.
source: CBS Evening News: Repeat Offenders Take In Shelter Dogs - And Both Find Healing
In prison, where kindness is considered a weakness … dogs make tough men tender. Inmates and dogs are doing time together in nine Colorado prisons, …
source: ABC News
Known in the military as a “war dog,” Laika used to chase gunmen in the streets of Baghdad. After six years of military service, including two tours in Iraq, she has finally settled into her new life in rural America, where she chases sticks.
The Gavin family recently adopted Laika under a new program […]
source: CBS 5, CA
Karen Klingberg works for the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation and scours shelters across the state, searching for dogs with the right frenetic temperament to become urban search and rescue dogs.
The foundation is looking for volunteers to test shelter dogs, to see if they’ve got the right stuff.
source: Chicago Tribune, United States
On Friday the aquarium will open “Pet Training the Shedd Way,” a show featuring six rejected dogs from area animal rescue centers. The program is designed to show how good training techniques can transform even the sorriest mutt into a refined, polite, playful and lovable pet.
“We wanted to do something that was […]
source: HSUS News, DC
The third annual Humane Society Walk for the Animals on Sunday, Oct. 5, raised funds to help end pet homelessness. The HSUS sent a canine reporter to the event to offer this first-hand account.
Major paws to whoever barked in that request–it was the perfect ending to a perfect day, when hundreds of dogs […]