News

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Offers $1K For Information In Wisconsin Dog, Coyote Poisonings

May 4, 2020

WISCONSIN — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in teaming up with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to investigate several dog poisonings in northern Wisconsin. Four domestic dogs have died since April 1 while walking on U.S. Forest Service land in the Town of Alvin in Forest County. Now, the DNR and Fish and […]

Best Dog Food Delivery Services: Pet Plate, Ollie and more

May 4, 2020

With most of us on lockdown and doing our best to #socialdistance, #flattenthecurve and not #loseourminds, limiting trips to the store is one of the best moves you can make. But we still gotta eat — and so do dogs — so if you’re a dog owner, you may want to consider one of these […]

Delaware Nonprofit, Rescue Dogs Find Home With Veterans In Need

May 4, 2020

Life hasn’t been easy for Mark Harris since he retired from the Ohio National Guard in 2018. Though he is proud of his service to his country, problems with his back and post-traumatic stress disorder have plagued the 46-year-old as a result of a year-long deployment to Afghanistan in 2013. An animal, he thought, […]

St. Jude Music Therapists Organize Backyard Jams For Kids

May 4, 2020

Amy Love had to leave the Memphis hospital where she brings music to severely ill children — she and other support staff couldn’t take the risk of spreading COVID-19 to these frail patients. But she was determined: The music must not stop. So her house became a recording studio, and Love, fellow music therapist Celeste […]

Strata Can’t Force Family To Give Up Disabled Teenager’s Support Dog, Tribunal Rules

May 4, 2020

VANCOUVER — A strata bylaw banning residents from having dogs can’t be used against a B.C. teenager who uses her pet to manage her disabilities, the province’s Human Rights Tribunal has ruled. In a decision that was posted online this week, tribunal member Devyn Cousineau found the strata’s bylaw to be discriminatory because losing the dog […]

The Results Are In: Officer ‘Sully’ to Report For Duty Later This Year

May 4, 2020

CLAREMONT — A new dog is joining the Claremont Police Department, but residents hoping to name the canine in homage to the 1986 movie Top Gun came up short. The Claremont Police Department announced Friday afternoon that the chosen name for the department’s new police dog will be Sully, short for Officer Sullivan. Sully, a six-month-old […]

Stay-at-Home Orders Halt Some Service Dog Training

May 4, 2020

Eric Caron, a retired guidance counselor who has been blind since birth, recently moved to a new home. He soon noticed that his guide dog, a yellow Labrador retriever named Ryan, was having trouble leading him across a busy intersection that Caron must cross regularly. Caron knew what that meant: It was time to retire […]

Unlikely Hero Comes On Four Paws

May 4, 2020

MOREHEAD CITY — A partially paralyzed, blind dog may not fit the traditional definition of a hero, but in Ann Carpenter’s eyes, Bella is that and more. That’s why Ms. Carpenter has entered her 11-year-old Boston terrier/pug mix, a certified therapy dog, in the 2020 American Humane Hero Dog Awards. Bella is competing against 360 other […]

A Day In The Life of Luis: A Way To Gain Distraction

May 4, 2020

Watching New York governor holding his news conference, he mentioned people are suffering from depression. People are resorting to “hitting the bottle,” rising in numbers, as far as numbers of what people are doing under these times of quarantine. There are many ways one can distract themselves from the realization that the Corona will be […]

Who Let The Dogs Out?

May 4, 2020

Thursday’s warm weather encouraged folks to emerge from isolation to enjoy walking their cooped up canine companions at Pierce City’s South Park. From left, Al, the service dog owned by Cathy Lewis, center, took his ladies out for a comfortable two-mile stroll in the afternoon. The two were joined by Julie Bishoff, right, a friend […]