Vets install pacemaker in search-and-rescue dog

Allison Brown, 5, whispers “goodnight” to the family’s chocolate Labrador, Molly, refering to the famous “Unsinkable Molly Brown,” Tuesday, May 20, 2008, in the Brown family home in Saginaw, Mo.
Source: AP
After years of helping authorities look for murder victims and survivors of natural disasters, a search-and-rescue dog named Molly has been rescued herself.
Surgeons at the [...]

Depot dog’s memory lives

Artist Dawn Weimer embraces her sculpture of well-loved Fort Collins character Annie.
For 60 years, the grave of Annie the Railroad Dog
has testified to the loyalty of a polite little mutt that inspired generations of dog-lovers born long after her death in 1948.
Adopted during the Great Depression by the C&S Railway crew, Annie became an [...]

Art: A tasty dog treat

Source: Philly.com
By Edward Sozanski Contributing Art Critic
Ordinarily, an exhibition of dog photographs would not be cause for celebration. Too often dogs are anthropomorphized, dressed in silly costumes and made to perform ridiculous stunts, just so their owners or other misguided souls can record their humiliation for posterity.
Dogs often do act like humans; they are, after [...]