News: Dog breeds

BT engineers are suffering at the jaws of the nation’s dogs. There have been 150 dog attacks on engineers since 2007 and the company has decided to take action. Openreach, the BT division upgrading the telecoms network to fibre-optic cables, said that 24 of its engineers have been attacked just this year — with the…

It was with great sadness that the team at Cats, Dogs & Peace of Mind received an email today (19 October 2011) breaking the news that Max, the Irish Wolfhound, had passed away this morning, aged 7, when his heart finally failed. Four-Feet I have done mostly what men do And pushed it out of…

Children with learning disabilities are being entered into schemes where they are reading to dogs. The four-legged friends in turn are being enlisted to hear recitations of Dr. Seuss, Hans Christian Andersen, and J.K. Rowling in schools and libraries. The reason? Studies show conclusively that children who read to an audience perform much better when…

Hobo, an army dog who suffered life-threatening injuries in a Taliban attack less than two weeks ago, is celebrating his third birthday back on the front line. The bomb-hunting black Labrador, who serves with A Company, 2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles, was badly wounded when a patrol came under heavy fire in Helmand Province in…

The wife of a leading food writer told Rob Parsons of the Evening Standard of her horror at seeing a fox savage her chihuahua puppies in her garden. Julia Hsiung was at home in West Hampstead when she heard one of the puppies squealing in agony and the other barking frantically. She rushed to investigate…

It is with great sadness that we have heard of the death of Woody Grey – as he was known to many of us at Cats, Dogs & Peace of Mind. A huge mixture of breeds – nobody was ever sure how many different types of dog made up this gentle giant – he was…

The late Leona Helmsley’s Maltese dog Trouble (seen together right),who inherited $12 million (£7.3 million), and became one of the richest bitches in the world, has died at the age of 12. The statement from the multi-billion dollar trust of Helsley’s real estate empire said yesterday “Trouble passed away on December 13, 2010. She was…

Italian brand MOSCHINO has teamed up exclusively with online fashion retailer Yoox to launch a limited edition capsule collection of leashes and collars. All proceeds from the MOSCHINO PETS project will go to the US’s National Disaster Search Dog Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to training rescue dogs to become search dogs. Once trained, these…

Despite their vote-winning appeal, dogs and politicians don’t seem to mix. Pooch-loving ministers are relatively rare and no-one can recall a dog in Downing Street since Harold Wilson and his yellow Labrador Paddy (left). Hectic schedules and multiple homes do not favour dog ownership, but there are notable exceptions. The late Michael Foot, the former…

A puppy raised with lambs is leading the fight against wolves in Spain. Dana, a Pyrenean mountain dog like the one above, has been raised with the lambs because his job will be to defend the flock from the re-emergence of its ancient predator – the wolf. Wolves have been detected in hills only 25…