Dogs

A still from the Mutual Rescue film about Eric and Peety.

He Rescued A Dog. Then The Dog Rescued Him

5:13pm March 10, 2016

by Nancy Shute

Eric O'Grey was 51, obese and suffering from diabetes and high cholesterol when he took home an overweight shelter dog. Now the duo are headlining a campaign on how pets improve humans' lives.

Human Interest

Adopting Out Greyhounds: Malay Shah

3:29pm March 04, 2016

Radio Camper Spencer Eby interviews Malay Shah. Shah is a board member of Greyhound Friends of North Carolina. The organization rescues retired racing dogs and finds people to adopt them.

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Shelter dog Rohan takes a break from his scent detection trials to play outside. Rohan is one of several dogs training to detect homemade bombs at the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University.

Dogs' New Challenge: Find A Bomb Before It Becomes A Bomb

5:06pm February 10, 2016

by Jimmy Jenkins

Humans rely on dogs to search for bombs. But the increasingly common Improvised Explosive Devices can be made with ordinary ingredients — and it is posing a new challenge for bomb-sniffing dogs.

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Cheryl Woolnough, director of training at Patriot PAWS in Rockwall, Texas, works with Papi, a Labrador retriever.

Veterans Say Trained Dogs Help With PTSD, But The VA Won't Pay

6:05pm January 04, 2016

by Lauren Silverman

Service dogs help veterans with physical disabilities, and there's increased interest in using dogs for symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, too. A study is underway to see whether that helps.

The team behind this project tweaked the IVF process to increase its success rate.

Science

7 Bundles Of Scientific Joy: 'Test Tube Puppies' Prove IVF Can Work In Dogs

7:44pm December 09, 2015

by Camila Domonoske

While in vitro fertilization has been successfully used in many species (including humans) for decades, scientists have never managed to use the procedure with dogs — until this summer.

Tang Xiong Xiong, a Bichon Frise, came into the salon as a ball of fluff and emerged with her head shaped like a square. "She's getting used to it," says her owner.

For Taiwanese Dogs, Being Square Is Stylish

7:41pm November 10, 2015

by Elise Hu

These days, owners are asking for their four-legged friends to be styled as spheres and squares. We visit the Taiwanese grooming shop where the geometric grooming trend took root.

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Ken (left) and Henry were created using DNA plucked from a skin cell of Melvin, the beloved pet of Paula and Phillip Dupont of Lafayette, La.

Cloning Your Dog, For A Mere $100,000

6:56pm October 06, 2015

by Rob Stein

The Duponts in Louisiana loved their mutt Melvin so much they jumped at the chance to replicate him. Melvin is gone now, but he has left behind two clones, Ken and Henry.

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A surgical team at Sooam Biotech in Seoul, South Korea, injects cloned embryos into the uterus of an anesthetized dog.

Disgraced Scientist Clones Dogs, And Critics Question His Intent

6:17pm October 02, 2015

by Rob Stein

A lab in Seoul is the only place in the world known to commercially clone dogs. But often the dog clones are sickly, critics say, and many other dogs are subjected to surgery to make a clone.

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Rex, a retired K-9 dog, is in the custody of Animal Services as officials in Albuquerque, N.M., decide what to do with him.

National

Rex The K-9 Is Retiring, And Police Department Weighs His Fate

4:24pm September 22, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Announcing Rex's retirement, police in Albuquerque, N.M., also outlined a sad story, saying his handler recently retired — and that the officer, who has a small child, couldn't take the dog home.

Lily chases sheep for the first time in her shepherd-mix life, at Raspberry Ridge Sheep Farm in eastern Pennsylvania. Several times a year the farm invites dogs for "herding instinct tests."

Do City Dogs Dream Of Chasing Country Sheep?

6:49pm September 16, 2015

by Fred Mogul

Many people spend summertime in the great outdoors, enjoying simpler living. Reporter Fred Mogul took his city dog to a farm in Pennsylvania to see if she might enjoy exploring her shepherding roots.

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