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If you’re a dog person then you know most things improve in the company of a good dog: walks, runs, drives, hikes, hunts, cold beers, and camping trips, just to name a few. By the same token, not much ...

Every day a volunteer for Helping Paws wakes up early and becomes an Uber driver for some of the cutest and most helpful clients ever — service dogs in training. Helping Paws breeds, trains and places ...

Experts share what assistance dogs do, the types of disabilities they support, and the role of reputable organizations in finding the right animal.

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More than a dozen puppies training to be guide dogs attended UCSB’s women's basketball practice Wednesday. The canine visit is a great opportunity for the pups in training and their raisers to be ...

A young waterfowling friend recently got a German shorthair and asked me what kind of upland shotgun he should buy so he could take his dog hunting. I said, “That’s the wrong question. You’ve already ...

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Chilli, a Battersea rescue puppy, is now a certified Bio Detection Dog and is being trained to detect Pseudomonas aeruginosa ...