Chris and Mariesa Hughes live with 19 dogs and all of them are special needs. They run a very interesting and loving charity. They take dogs from rescue centres that are medically challenged and find foster homes for them but they pay all the medical …
GARDENA, CALIFORNIA – NEWS AND COMMENT: A 13-year-old German shepherd has been abandoned to an animal shelter: Saving Carson Shelter Dogs. The dog’s name is Macho. The shelter has a Facebook page and on the page is a video. This story has caught the imagination …
A study from Utrecht University’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine researched the extent of anxiety among dogs who been rescued and placed in animal shelters. They used night cameras and a small activity tracker on the dogs’ collars and cortisol measurements in the urine both of …
A woman, is suing a dog rescue organisation because she contracted parasitic worms from the dog that she adopted from the rescue centre. She claims that she wasn’t told that the dog had worms or had not been treated at that time. She played with …
COMMENT-NEWS: The title to this article is speculative but it is based upon the words of Sarah Covell who believes that her 3-month-old Jack Russell dog named Crumpet was stolen 10 years ago for breeding purposes. When she could no longer have puppies, it is …
The owner of this special needs rescue dog tells us, in a video, that he/she prefers to scream rather than bark. I don’t know if that is entirely true even if in the video he does that. I would have preferred a slightly longer video …
Inline with many recent news media stories about pet dogs being the new currency for criminals because they’ve become so valuable due to pressures on the marketplace brought about by coronavirus lockdowns, police have seized 83 allegedly stolen dogs on a travellers’ site in Suffolk, …
I hate using the word “pet” so I always use “companion animal” instead. I think it respects the animal more. I’ll try and be as succinct as possible. Meghan Markle is said to be an animal lover. She is renowned for it apparently. When she …
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Kate, should have adopted a rescue dog rather than an eight-month-old black female cocker spaniel, a gift from the Duchess’s brother James Middleton. It would have been so much better if they had adopted a dog from …