Stories of survival for a horse, a dog and a cute cat
Have you ever wondered what happened to a certain animal whose story of triumph or tragedy you read in The Province?
To satisfy your curiosity, we caught up with three famous fur-bearers: a prancer, a pooch and a pussycat.
SUNDANCE
Snowmobilers were stunned to come upon two [...]

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They are absolutely darling!. Who can resist their adorable face!!!
They are highly “huggable”:)

By Charles Roberts
A few days ago, Marybeth Nicola, manager of Victoria Village Apartments in Highland, noticed a small mother dog just over the fence from her apartment complex in the back parking lot of Food 4 Less.
She found that the dog was nursing small puppies and then found that she was also nursing a couple [...]

By LISA HONEYBONE
Don’t be fooled by his innocent puppy eyes, this golden retriever has a serious job to do.
Guide dog puppy-in-training Fintan has been living with Sue Drinkwater and her daughter Sarah since April 21 when he was six weeks old.
Kristin School student Sarah volunteered to be a puppy walker for a school project. It [...]

A Hungarian dog has been reunited with his owners after being sucked into the sky while still in his kennel during a windy storm.
Agnes Tamas, 57, said she had chained her dog Bruno – who she has since renamed Lucky – to his kennel when he was swept away by what she described as the [...]

KTLA News
LOS ANGELES — A woman and her daughter who had their Silky Terrier puppy stolen in a violent “fake car accident” robbery were reunited Tuesday with their beloved four-legged friend, according to police.
The robbery happened June 14th. That’s when two men and two women collided, allegedly on purpose, with the car driven by Sharon [...]

From staff reports
It was a rather easy rescue and certainly a rewarding one for Statesville Fire Department firefighter Rawdy Cox.
For his efforts, Cox was rewarded with a couple of licks to the face from the puppy he rescued from a storm drain and with the smiling faces of the children who owned the puppy.
Cox and [...]

MANATEE COUNTY (Bay News 9) — Keith Wandell takes dogs no one else wants.
The majority of his dogs have had it rough and it shows in their temperament.
“I witnessed the guy that was in possession of Rufus Duct taping his muzzle, preparing him to be bait,” said Keith Wandell of Buddies Rescue.
Full story here

By Kaitlin Urka Lambrini Lukidis
KENTWOOD, Mich. (WZZM) – Five week old Maddie is adjusting well to her new home. Maddie, a puppy, was given to the Abel and Denise Soto by a WZZM 13 viewer.
“I can see she’s going to be a good dog already, and we already love her to pieces,” said [...]

Turns out, he’s a baby fox
By The Ogden Reporter 2010
Sammi Blair, 7, of Ogden, approached her grandma and said, “Nanna, there’s a dog in our garage.”
“I went out and saw what looked like a puppy,” her grandma Barb Clay said, “but when I picked it up I [...]

By ERIN MATHEWS Salina Journal
A Marquette teen is accused of punching a 9-year-old boy in the face and stealing his German shepherd puppy Tuesday.
The boy’s mom said it might be a new low for Salina.
“I was born and raised here, and I have never in my life read in the Salina Journal about a [...]

AN UNUSUAL FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN AN Orangutan and the Hound:
YOU GOT TO SEE THIS:
VIDEO HERE

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French Boston terrier: aren’t we the most precious lil thing ever!

Most dog owners would do anything to save their beloved pooch from harm. What we often don’t realize is that our canines would do the same for us, too.
That’s just what happened when Ben Heinrichs, who lives with his mom and dad in a desolate and wooded area in Alaska, unintentionally set off a fire [...]

Dogs retrieve all sorts of things. Add litter to the list.
Since this coming Thursday is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day we had to mention EVIE the yellow Labrador Retriever who is the mascot for Keep Evansville Beautiful. Her mission in Evansville, Ind., according to her owner Susan Harp, is to keep people [...]

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The gentle big family dog!

“Been” the dog survived three gunshots to the head and is now the loving caretaker of four motherless kittens, even bathing them and putting them to bed.
The New Zealand pig-hunting dog was found at least two days after being shot in the the head and left for dead. He was 10 kilograms, or 22 pounds, [...]

Posted by Rich Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WFIE) – The U.S. Postal Service has produced a new series of stamps called Animal Rescue: Adopt a Shelter Pet as well as a Stamps to the Rescue promotional campaign aimed at encouraging the adoption of homeless pets.
“These stamps continue a Postal Service tradition of bringing attention to serious [...]

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Can we go walk now, hu? hu?:)

A very touching story!
by Barbara Hijek
In 1983, Amy Louise Annelle was abandoned, stuffed in a cereal box with her placenta in a large trash bin in Daytona Beach.
She was hours old when rescued from a garbage truck’s trash compactor by trash collectors, reports the Daytona Beach News Journal.
At the time Pat Patten-Carlen was looking [...]

Hotels, parks, bakeries and more cater to canine clientele
By Kim Hogstrom
A remarkable trend is developing across America and Houston is on top of the wave. We’ve become a country of pet lovers. Yes, yes, we know — most people like animals, but it’s gone well beyond that. Statistics report that the number of households with [...]

By ROBB FREDERICK
WESTFIELD, N.Y. — A scared dog spent the night on an ice floe before New York sheriff’s deputies scooped it into a rescue helicopter and carried it to shore Tuesday
The dog, a shepherd mix named Koozie, was being treated at the Village Veterinary Clinic in Westfield, according to the staff there. She did [...]

Rocky is 100 percent lab. When we got him he was 6 years old and we were his 3rd family. He was way over weight, and had an infection in his paw that took 3 surgerys to fix. I am not sure what his first owner was like but I know the secound one did [...]

Hurt dog wanders into emergency room; gets treated and sent home
The dog’s family has been found
FARMINGTON — An unlikely patient walked into the emergency room at San Juan Regional Medical Center on Saturday night.
Hospital staff and patients were surprised when the automatic doors opened and a dog with blood on its nose and paw and [...]

At some point in evolutionary history dogs diverged from wolves thanks to domestication by humans. But just where did dogs first become man’s best friend? Robert Wayne and his team have many years invested in answering the question, and their newest findings, published this week in Nature, suggest that the answer is the Middle East.
Researchers [...]

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Nice photo of a very cute Standard Poodle!

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In my mind, the most beautiful dogs in the world!
And this race is the most extremely hard one I know of!!!

“Only for true dog-lovers, not breed-conscious people”, says Aparna Bhatt, when she looks for a home for her rescues. Aparna and her husband founded KARMA (Kulture for Animal Rehabilitation & Mass Awareness), a grassroots organisation that fosters homeless Indian puppies until a family adopts them. Her way of working is a stark contrast to that [...]

By Jeremiah Stettler
Hundreds of cats owe their lives to dogs in Salt Lake County, where an innovative adoption program is giving those furballs a better chance than ever at finding homes.
The county saved the lives of an unprecedented 1,600 cats last year, more than double the nearly 800 that typically avoid euthanasia. And those rescues [...]

A Monday morning call to SFPD regarding, in the words of the Taraval Station newsletter, “a man with a gun making threats” led to the discovery of a disturbing story of animal cruelty, allegedly at the hands of a man said to be fostering a puppy for a local rescue agency.
Three officers were called to [...]

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Royalty is Royalty:)
What can we say: he is a perfect Royal Poodle!

BY MARIA FUGATE
A dog-loving Virginia family got an unexpectedly happy if somewhat perplexing ending to their missing-hound mystery last month, thanks to a microchip.
Two weeks before Christmas, Deacon, an 85-pound German shepherd, went missing from the home he shared with the Holt family in rural Stuart, Va.
For the first couple of days, Pamela; her husband, [...]

By LIAM MILLLER
A giant farm dog and a tiny piglet cuddle up as if they were family after the baby runt was dismissed by its own mother.
Surrogate mum Katjinga, an eight-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback, took on motherly duties for grunter Paulinchen – a tiny pot-bellied pig – and seems to be taking the adoption in her [...]

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Is this daddy coming back home?

BY: Hayley Thomas
When it comes to top dogs, Paso Robles has one of the best Beagles in the nation.
Paso Robles resident Elise Smith is the proud owner of that pooch, who ranked as the American Kennel Club’s number one agility Beagle in the country for the 2009 calendar year.
Smith, who won the award with [...]

PORT ARTHUR — 3 rescued little pups are recovering after being thrown over a seawall and on to some rocks, in Port Arthur.
Firefighters rescued the crying pups and placed the babies with animal control.
KFDM-TV reports the man who tossed the animals on last Sunday was heard saying he was “turning them into soldiers.” A bystander [...]

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I am a Royal poodle with style:)

By Julie Crothers
The shrill barking of nine Labrador retriever puppies Thursday gave way to blissful laughter from their new trainers: 18 inmates at the Plainfield Correctional Facility.
One by one, the 8-week-old pups were pulled out of their crates and introduced to the men who’ll care for them and help them learn to assist children with [...]

Posted By: Kathleen Minnix
President Harry Truman famously said “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” The odds a president had a dog during his term are 1 in 1.54 (65%).
In 1998, at the height of the scandal surrounding Monica Lewinsky, President Bill Clinton took that advice when he added Buddy, a Chocolate [...]

by Helena Sung
Sugar, a French Bulldog-Bassett Hound mix who was being held for ransom in New York City was found on Tuesday morning — tied to a bush in the Brooklyn park where she had initially run off while playing in the snow last week.
According to ABC News, a Good Samaritan walking his bulldog found [...]

By Ferris Jabr
If you saw Pixar’s 2009 computer-animated film Up, you’ll likely remember the character of Dug: a lovable golden retriever who can talk, thanks to a collar that translates his thoughts.
I know what you’re hoping to read next. Something like, “Now, scientists have invented just such a collar! Soon we will we unravel all [...]

Puppy Bowl VI, the exciting 2010 edition, airs on Sunday, Feb 2 at 3 PM Eastern and Pacific time on Animal Planet. My favorite part is the Kitten Half Time Show. The puppies are cute but, let’s face it, kittens have puppies beat six ways from Sunday.
It’s nice to see Animal Planet take [...]