Showing 11 posts tagged with "great dogs"
We know that dogs’ olfactory abilities are amazing, so much better than humans’. Dogs’ keen sense of smell even has health care applications.
And we know that dogs sometimes demonstrate extraordinarily nurturing traits with people and other animals.
Jewel is a special dog. Her person, Oakland, CA resident Charlotte Cook, shares Jewel’s story.
Everyone in Japan knows the story of Hachiko. The Akita who spent years waiting for his master is so beloved that a statue in his honor sits at the train station where he kept his vigil.
Now Hachiko’s story has been transferred to an American context in a new film with Richard Gere.
I’m not sure how [...]
Dear DogBlog readers, we wanted to pass on the following:
Let your voice be heard! Kathy Nimmer, a blind high school English teacher and writer from Indiana, has launched an international effort to gather true stories about people with all types of disabilities and their service dogs, to be included in an anthology that Nimmer will [...]
Stump, the Sussex Spaniel who took top honors at Westminster earlier this year, spent time with some special children recently.
Stump and J.R., a bichon frise who won some years ago, visited young cancer patients at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stump wore a bandana designed by some of the children, who create artworks [...]
The Humane Society of the United States will be presenting its second annual Dogs of Valor Award, given to dogs who have acted heroically. As the HSUS blog notes,
This year’s nominees include not only dogs who saved the lives of their caretakers, but dogs who moved beyond that familiar bond and came to the aid [...]
