About two weeks before Christmas, Deacon, an 85-pound German shepherd, went missing from his family home in rural Stuart, Va.
During the first couple of days, Pamela Holt, her husband Keith, and their daughter Brooklyn, 3, weren't terribly worried because they figured their nearly 2-year-old pet was running in the fields behind their home.
"We have a [...]

ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — Oregon authorities say the 4-year-old daughter of a reality TV show star was mauled to death by the family's Rottweiler.
Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Bergin says Ashlynn Anderson's mother found her badly injured on their lawn in Astoria on Sunday. Ashlynn is the daughter of Jesse Browning, who stars with his father [...]

A sled dog belonging to an Alaskan musher has died — likely of a heart condition — while competing in this year's Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, the race's first dog death in three years.
Bags, an eight-year-old male dog belonging to Terry Williams of Fairbanks, Alaska, collapsed and died on the trail between the [...]

At least five Canadian search experts and their dogs have departed for Haiti to help find victims and survivors in the rubble, following Tuesday's massive earthquake.
Mark Pullen, a Burnaby firefighter, was one of three members of the Canadian Search and Disaster Dog Association (CASDDA) that left Vancouver International Airport on Wednesday night.
Once in Haiti, they'll [...]

A boy from Boston Bar, B.C., whose golden retriever saved him from a charging cougar says he wouldn't be alive if his dog hadn't stepped in.
Austin Forman, 11, was gathering firewood in his backyard at about 5 p.m. PT Saturday when his dog, Angel, started acting strangely.
Angel started following him to and from the woodshed, [...]

Specially trained bomb-sniffing dogs might soon be patrolling Metro Vancouver's buses and SkyTrains just in time for the Olympics, but that has some Muslims concerned.
The Metro Vancouver Transit Police Service is in the process of selecting the handlers and dogs that will be part of the two-year pilot project, said deputy chief George Beattie.
Once the [...]

Herc, Scout and Sniper have been chosen as the names for Edmonton's three new police puppies.
The names were chosen out of more than 275 entries submitted by students from 85 Edmonton-area elementary schools.
The winning entries were chosen by police.
The German shepherds, two male and one female, are currently going through a four-month training program to [...]

LOS ANGELES — A dog named Titan lived up to his name Thursday when he earned the title world's tallest dog.
It was one of more than 30 records announced or set on Nov. 12 — the official Guinness World Record Day — but the only animal to be honored.
The 4-year-old white Great Dane from San [...]

EDMONTON — To adopt a no-kill policy at the pound the city would have to find ways to increase pet licensing and reduce the number of strays and unwanted litters, says a committee report.
“Considerable program development, support and funding are required to achieve an outcome where no adoptable animal is euthanized,” according to a report [...]

It sounds like a shaggy dog story, but it isn’t. A Tibetan Mastiff is believed to have broken the record as the world’s most expensive dog — sold to a young Chinese millionaire for a mind-blowing $582,000.
The owner, known only as Ms. Wang, traveled to Qinghai province of northwest China to purchase the [...]