Pets

The Greek Animal Welfare Society is holding its fourth annual Run With Your Dog event on Sunday, October 1, at the National Bank Woods (Alsos Ethnikis Trapezas - formerly Pikionis Park) in the northern suburb of Filothei. In addition to encouraging people to spend some quality time with their pets, the event is also aimed at raising awareness about the society's activities.

The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a southern Oregon couple must quiet their incessantly barking dogs by sending them to the vet to have their voices surgically squelched.

Today is the day of the Dog in many countries, various initiatives are organized for pet owners, and the purpose is to encourage people to be caring not only for their own dogs, but also for others who meet in a park or on the way to work.

The dog has become a constant companion of man since ancient times.

A driver who killed a stray dog in a hit-and-run in the Mediterranean province of Antalya on July 17 was released after his detention by the Antalya police.

A fiery debate among Turkish social media users had been stirred after terrifying footage was revealed showing a vehicle that vanished away after killing the stray dog without looking back.

A search-and-rescue dog named Şans (Luck), which has been a member of the İzmir Municipality Fire Department for 11 years, taking part in many missions including after the Van earthquake and the Soma mine disaster, has died. 

Freida and Kanellos are released at the location where they had been picked up in the town of Argos in the northern Peloponnese, on Thursday, after being spayed and neutered as part of a municipal program that includes vaccinations, microchipping and medical care. [Vassilis Papadopoulos/Eurokinissi]

The Municipality of Volos in Greece's eastern mainland is on Monday launching a campaign aimed at controling the city's population of stray dogs, by getting more pets microchipped.

Nine dogs with a cause need help.We are looking for foster hosts for small labradors, who will someday become guide dogs for blind people, reported bTV.

At the moment they are extremely sweet black and brown brothers and sisters.

People who will give them a temporary home will definitely have more responsibilities than the owners of the other dogs.

Long before cats became the darlings of Facebook and YouTube, they spread through the ancient human world.

A DNA study reached back thousands of years to track that conquest and found evidence of two major dispersals from the Middle East, in which people evidently took cats with them. Genetic signatures the felines had on those journeys are still seen in most modern-day breeds.

Not everyone is cut out for a life of fighting crime. Take Gavel, a German shepherd who flunked out of a police dog academy in Australia because he “did not display the necessary aptitude for a life on the front line,” according to the BBC.
Apparently Gavel was too friendly, and preferred cuddles to tackles.