They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but you can certainly teach a new dog new tricks, as a four months old puppy named Snowy has shown. Snowy is deaf, and at just four months old has been taught to recognise and respond to sign language.

Snowy was given to the Dogs Trust in Wiltshire because she was deaf, something that her owners didn’t want to cope with. Undeterred from the fact that Snowy couldn’t hear, the staff of the Dogs Trust set about teaching Snowy sign language, so that she now responds to commands such as ‘sit’, ‘roll over’, ‘lie down’ and ‘come back’.

Now that Snowy responds to sign language, staff hope they’ll be able to find her a home. Leslie Carley, from the Dogs Trust, stated that Snowy was the (more…)

Eight dogs have been made homeless and are in need of someone to care for them after their owner tragically died while they were on holiday. Three of the dogs are puppies, and five of the dogs are adult lurcher cross dogs. A friend was looking after the dogs when their owner was away, but after the tragic accident they were taken to the Dogs Trust so that they could be rehomed.

The dogs are now waiting in the Dogs Trust, in Evesham, for someone to give them a home. Chris Slight, from Evesham’s Dogs Trust, stated:

These poor dogs were clearly loved and well looked after and when they arrived at our centre they were very confused and unsettled at the sudden (more…)

In a scene reminiscent from an episode of Scooby Doo, some car thieves in Croydon, Surrey, would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling dogs. The car thieves were chased by police dogs in Tooting Bec in Croydon last week after they abandoned their stolen car. The thieves set off on foot, hurdled a fence and were pursued by two police dogs.

Two of the thieves were apprehended by the dogs, but the other thieves escaped capture.

An eye witness described the event:

The police were running around like headless chickens. They didn’t have a police car so they sent for (more…)

The Internet has many uses, and now one of those uses is reuniting lost dogs with their owners, thanks to Newark and Sherwood District Council. The Council is using a website that has been setup with a view to finding the owners of lost dogs.

The council is believed to be the first local authority in the area to use the Internet for this purpose.

Local councillor Nora Armstrong stated:

Hopefully by making these photographs available online we can reunite missing or stray dogs with their owners as quickly as possible. Checking the website will also save (more…)

Stray dogs are a big problem in Mumbai, India’s financial capital. So much so that when they are caught they are put down. They have a champion though, in the unusual shape of former Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson. Pamela has thrown her weight behind a campaign to neuter stray dogs rather than destroy them.

Pamela states in a letter she sent to Greater Mumbai’s municipal commission:

It is well established that killing stray dogs is not a permanent solution to controlling their populations.

Dogs cannot use condoms, but with the municipality’s help, they can be ‘fixed’ — painlessly, quickly and (more…)