The wolves pace back and forth in their chain-link pens, wagging their tails, jumping and rattling the metal with their paws. They cast furtive glances at the zookeepers.
It’s carcass day.
When the gates open, the six canines dash for the meat in the snowy enclosure. A 115-pound black wolf, Denali, goes for the biggest prize — [...]
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Sharon Young has designed and sold political buttons and T-shirts for about 15 years. But maybe she’s been barking up the wrong tree.
Her newest creation — campaign buttons for canines — is leading the pack.
Patriotic Pets buttons come with slogans such as “Bark Obama for President” and “100 percent McCain9.”
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Alaskan huskies that participate in the grueling Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race must run 1,100 miles while enduring heavy blizzards, temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit and winds up to 60 miles per hour, all of which earn the hearty canines status as the world’s premier ultra-endurance animal athletes.
How do they do it? New [...]
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A new study jointly conducted by Oregon State University College of Veterinary Medicine and the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute may one day help not only our canine friends with cancer, but also people with the human form of the disease.
Forging this unique relationship is OSU veterinary oncologist and researcher Stuart Helfand, D.V.M., [...]
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Wolves are extinct in Texas, but in one area of the Lone Star State, it isn’t unusual to hear the chilling chorus of their howls echoing across rolling hills and filtering through towering pines as residents of Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary communicate with one another.
Located on 100 private, wooded acres northeast of Houston, the [...]
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Americans have elected a poodle to the White House, the American Kennel Club (AKC) said Thursday.
After reports that Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle promised their young daughters that they could have a dog after the presidential election, the AKC polled the US public to find out what kind of [...]
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It’s a dog’s life during hard economic times. But Chihuahuas in a tutu? Pugs in designer tank-tops? Dachshunds draped in Swarovski bling?
That was the scene at the third annual Pet Fashion Week in Manhattan this past weekend, where despite a looming US recession, the world’s dog-loving fashionistas gathered to share ideas, market their products, strut [...]
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Controversy at Crufts may normally be confined to docked tails, unkempt coats and ill-timed barking, but the world’s premier dog show has found itself locked in a far more uncomfortable contretemps.
The BBC, which has had exclusive broadcasting rights to the event for more than 40 years, said yesterday it was reviewing its coverage in [...]
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Jake and Vanessa Meyer’s dog Fin isn’t exactly a canine Michael Phelps, but thanks to City Park Pool’s Pooch Plunge, he at least has a chance to test the waters.
Fin, a 2-year-old vizsla, was one of a record number of about 400 dogs who plunged - or in Fin’s case fell - into City Park [...]
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An 11-year-old boy is enjoying a flash of fame in Brazil after biting a pitbull that attacked him as he played in his uncle’s back yard, local media reported on Thursday.
Gabriel Almeida, who lives on the outskirts of Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais, broke a canine tooth when he bit into [...]
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