Showing 115 posts from June 2009
Nitro, a police dog in Aberdeen, Washington whose job was eliminated in a series of budget cuts will be back on the beat next week.
Police Chief Bob Torgerson said a community fund-raising drive netted $57,000 — enough to rehire Nitro and also pay for a car, kennel and equipment for the department’s K-9 program.
Nitro’s job [...]
An online petition drive is underway to save Snaps, the pit bull we wrote about yesterday. To sign it, go here.
Snaps was being abused by a group of teenagers in the town of SeaTac, Washington, including a member of the family who owns him, when a good samaritan interrupted them.
She, and another good samaritan, were [...]
With evidence both anecdotal and scientific showing dogs have the potential to sniff out diabetes — or at least detect the changes that occur when a person is about to have a hypoglycemic attack — a research center in southern England is training dogs to warn diabetic owners when their blood sugar levels fall to dangerously low levels.
As [...]
A group of dogs in London set a new world record for the loudest collective bark.
The 30 dogs emitted a group bark of 115 decibels in Finsbury Park, breaking the record of 111 decibels set by 224 dogs in Vermont last year, according to the BBC.
A German shepherd dog called Daz Lightning set the loudest [...]
A 63-year-old Seattle woman stopped her car when she saw a group of teenagers repeatedly kicking a pit bull in the town of SeaTac. She asked the group — three boys and a girl — what the problem was.
The girl, 15, told her to mind her own business, then walked over to her car, opened the passenger [...]
