The charity Guide Dogs kindly donated three dogs to another charity, Medical Detection Dogs, for them to be trained to detect the virus Covid-19. The three dogs did not quite come up to standard as blind dogs but of course they’d been through lots of …
Britain’s only sperm-sniffing dog, Billie, a cocker spaniel is retiring after six years in the role as reported by The Times (the BBC reported that he started in March 2016 which means he worked for just over 4 years). He was trained to detect seminal …
NEWS AND VIEWS – GREAT YARMOUTH, UK: Mr and Mrs Gant, 77 and 74 respectively, kept a pack of eight whippets. Neighbours recorded the dogs barking more than 900 times in one hour. As they had already been convicted by Norwich magistrates of breaching a …
Sheepdogs rely on their wolf pack inherited ‘instructions’ to herd sheep combined with training by their owner.
The Labrador is considered to be a friendly and loyal dog but it may surprise people to know that they are the most likely dog to attack a person in the UK and in parts of the USA on the basis that this dog breed …
Staffordshire bull terriers are probably potentially more dangerous than mainstream domestic dogs because (1) “gameness” has been bred into many lines of this breed of dog and (2) the basic temperament is the same as for a pit bull and (3) they are very strong …
Riddle of dog swimming in Gulf of Thailand 140 miles offshore Pet river otter clings onto human companion’s arm after a swim Sandford Parks Lido in Cheltenham, one of the country’s largest outdoor pools, hosted hundreds of pooches and their owners for an annual swim. …
A vestigial form of wolf behaviour in the domestic dog is present when they push their food bowl around, or as is demonstrated in the video on this page they push at it rather ineffectually with their noses. The behaviour in the video is at …
When a dominant, senior dog is challenged he will perform a threat display to subdue the challenger without resorting to violence. Here is a list of 10 elements that a dominant dog will use in his display: The teeth are bared. The upper lip is …
