Dogs

A Turkish dog famed for its shepherding skills and people-friendliness is now making its mark all over the globe, said a breeder of canines on June 4.

A toddler was severely bitten by a domestic dog, police said. The signal for the incident in the yard of a house in the village of Krumovo was filed at 5.00 pm on Monday at Fifth District Administration.

Nine adorable puppies smuggled to Turkey await their fate

The police in Pernik detained a man on suspicion that he did not take sufficient care of his dogs, after 14 of them were found dead, the BNR reported.

New legislation in Turkey will soon obligate the country’s pet owners to register their cats, dogs and weasels, and acquire identity microchips for them, a statement published in the Official Gazette on Feb. 26 read.

The government adopted a report on the implementation of the municipal programs for the control of the population of stray dogs on the territory of Bulgaria in 2016, BGNES reported.

Another actress is raising a dog from Bulgaria at home. It's Salma Hayek, who had fallen in love with a stray dog in 2014 when she was filming a movie in our country.

German archaeologists have discovered rock paintings of 8,000-year-old dogs in Saudi Arabia, the Daily Mail reported. On one of the drawings is of a bow hunter surrounded by 13 dogs. This painting, found in the Arabian desert, is the oldest known image of a dog, as well as a strap to control it. So far the earliest known drawing of a dog was from Egypt.

A dog was saved on Sept. 19 by fire authorities and zoo personnel after two unidentified perpetrators put a belt around its neck, dragged it and threw it from a height of 20 meters in the southeastern province of Gaziantep.

Police have detained a man in the western province of İzmir after video footage emerged of him kicking a dog sitting on the pavement.

The footage, gathered from surveillance camera footage on a street in the Aliağa district of İzmir, prompted outrage after it emerged online on Sept. 17.