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A man who was caught on CCTV abusing his pet Old Tyme Bulldog has been banned from owning any animal for five years. The man, identified as 22-year-old Cameron Brunning, was caught by CCTV cameras in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England abusing his pet dog while in the elevator. In the shocking ...

A dog that went missing from its Las Vegas home in 2015 has been found alive, and now it is reunited with its family after nine long years. Gizmo, the now 11-year-old Chihuahua, is back in his loving owners arms after going missing in 2015. ABC News reports that in 2015, the then two-year-old ...

A new research suggests that dogs can smell human stress, and it affects their emotions and decision-making process, which then leads them to making negative decisions. While previous studies have revealed that dogs can indeed smell human stress, the effect it has on them hasn’t been studied ...

A dog owner in New Zealand has been sentenced to two months’ jail time for overfeeding her pet dog that eventually led to death. Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) reveals that the woman pleaded guilty for failing to meet the dog’s needs that led to the ...

Dogs are called ‘Man’s Best Friend’ for a variety of reasons – and a mutually beneficial relationship is one of them. And for thousands of years, we, hoomans, have been breeding dogs to perform specific tasks and distinct traits. Today, as a result of these breeding practices, we have over 400 ...

Welcome to the Dogington Post’s “The Weekly Roundup” where we scour the internet for the funniest posts about our furry friends. To start the year, we present you funny dog posts from Jul 21 to Jul 27 that will paws-itively make you through the rest of the week! If you’re having a ruff day, ...

Clearwater Threshers 13-year-old bat dog, Layla, retires after retrieving her last bat during the team’s game against Fort Myers on Friday, July 19. Layla is a white Labrador Retriever and has been retrieving baseball bats for the Clearwater Threshers for six years. “She has just kind of been ...

ICECDogs has released new advertising guidelines on Friday, July 12, in an effort to end the use of images of dogs with conformation issues in advertising. The International Collaborative on Extreme Conformations in Dogs (ICECDogs) is recommending that advertisers and other users of social ...

A 160-pound dog injures its paw on a hike at Saddle Mountain in Oregon and was carried down by firefighters down the mountain on Friday, July 12. The dog, an unnamed Great Pyrenees, was hiking when he suddenly refused to keep walking, the Cannon Beach Fire District wrote on a July 15 Facebook ...

Sharwood the dog makes his 40th and final blood donation like a champ. And if that isn’t amazing enough, you should know that he did it while sleeping through the entire session! The pooch made his final blood donation at Northampton Vets4Pets on Saturday 13 July. And on July 15, the Pet Blood ...

Authorities in Colorado Springs, Colorado released a footage of a family’s dog accidentally turning on the kitchen stove and accidentally starting a home fire. On July 02, the Colorado Springs Fire Department (CSFD) shared the video on Facebook and revealed, “On Wednesday, June 26th at 4:43 ...

“A living miracle” – that’s what they’re calling a dog that was discovered and rescued from a Virginia cave by experienced cavers on Sunday, July 07. The professional cavers, Dave Jackson and Jesse Rochette, from Colorado-based educational cave simulator company CaveSim were exploring Giant ...