The Mirror is calling Buddy, a five year old spaniel, the luckiest dog alive having fallen off a 100 foot high cliff twice – but falling off a 100 foot high cliff twice sounds pretty unlucky to me.

Having fallen off the cliff twice, the poor dog then had to spend two hours doggie paddling in the sea before he was hauled onto a yacht a mile out.  Amazingly, the yacht owners also have a dog called Buddy and gave the spaniel a lift back to the shore.

Poor Buddy first fell off the cliff as (more…)

Looking at your dog, you might be forgiven for thinking they think of nothing more than eating, sleeping and walkies, but apparently they can also understand certain words and even basic maths according to scientists.

The scientists also said that some dogs are as bright as the average two year old and can comprehend around 250 words or gestures and even do simple maths or count to five.

Of course, not all breeds (more…)

In the media this week, the director of drugs charity Release, Sebastian Saville aged 56, is reportedly suing the police after he was searched on the London Underground as a sniffer dog barked at him.

It happened in June last year in the Camden Town underground station and Saville claims his human rights were breached because they searched him and found nothing.  Saville claims sniffer dogs are ineffective and wrong four out of five times, so police should not be allowed to stop and search people just on the dog’s say-so as that is not sufficiently ‘probable cause’.  So, does he want the (more…)