Where to find love on Valentine’s Day
Camp Bow Wow may not sound like the place for a romantic getaway — but if you go there Saturday between noon and 3 p.m., you’ll have a chance to win one. You’ll also have a chance to take home some...
View ArticleCanines & Cocktails … for a cause
The second in a summer-long series of dog-friendly cocktail parties is Friday night at the Loews Annapolis Hotel. The gatherings – held the last Friday of every month — each feature a different theme,...
View ArticleDogs show their stuff at Purina Challenge
Some of the country’s most athletic dogs competed at the National Finals of the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge at Purina Farms near St. Louis over the weekend. More than 30 canine athletes jumped,...
View ArticleGlucose: The key to dogged determination?
A new study confirms the notion that self-control is a limited resource, one that can and does get depleted — in humans and dogs. And glucose, the study says, is one solution to helping us — whatever...
View ArticleLaboratory use of dogs on the upswing
Given the endlessly rising popularity of dogs, and our increasing emotional attachment to them, medical researchers who use them for experiments can expect stronger and growing opposition to the...
View ArticleThe dogs of 9-11: Ten years later, search and rescue dogs prove most...
Despite the many lasting impacts of 9-11, America bounced back from the attack, and the dogs involved in the massive search and rescue effort that followed may have proven the most resilient of all....
View ArticleWoof in Advertising: Dogs rule on Game Day
Don’t be surprised if you see more canines than cleavage when it comes to this year’s Super Bowl ads. At least three ads premiering during the 2012 Super Bowl will star dogs. “You can’t go wrong with a...
View ArticleDown, boy! The politics of humping
What your dog sees as humpworthy may include other dogs (male and female), your child, your ottoman, your favorite pillow, your house guest, a stuffed animal, your leg, or anything else he — or even...
View ArticleReport calls attention to dog shootings by Houston police
Since January of 2010, Houston police have gunned down 187 dogs, killing 121 of them. And last year alone, law enforcement officers in Houston and Harris County shot more dogs than New York City police...
View ArticleDogs with Old Man Faces
Tom Cohen has taken some dogs with funny faces and made them funnier. In “Dogs with Old Man Faces,” released earlier this month, Cohen has gathered photos of elderly dogs and combined them with tag...
View ArticleBomb-sniffing dogs coming to Ohio campuses
I’m all for dogs on college campuses, and all for campus security. But news that the governor of Ohio wants every campus in the state to have its own bomb-sniffing dog troubles me — mostly for what it...
View ArticleWhy dogs are smarter than wolves
An Oregon State University scientist’s study, published yesterday, is drawing a lot of attention for concluding (as scientific studies often do) the obvious: The longer dogs live with us, the more...
View ArticleDogs: We feared, and ate them, and exploited them, before we befriended them
OK, so it wasn’t love at first sight. Before dogs became fully domesticated, there were long stretches of time that humans lived in tension with canines — both wolves and dogs — fearing them, eating...
View ArticleArmy did dismal job of finding homes for discharged bomb-sniffing dogs,...
It’s not unheard of for a war hero to return home without much of a welcome. But to return home and face more than a year languishing in a kennel? Such was the case with 13 of the more than 200...
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