This film, narrated by Clare Balding, looks at the issues affecting dog health and wellbeing in this country and what is being done in 2012 to help ensure that dog welfare stays at the top of the agenda. 'Dogs -- A Healthy Future', focuses ...

THE LOUTH SPCA faces a ' bleak' year as they struggle to cope with ever growing numbers of abandoned and neglected animals. ' The need has never been greater,' says Fiona Squibb, the LSPCA'S voluntary inspector. 'We literally have no funds to kee...

This skull once belonged to somebody's pet, over 33,000 years ago. It's one of the earliest known examples of the domestication of dogs — and it might actually mean modern dogs aren't all related to each other after all. The skull, recently dis...

AN ESTIMATED crowd of 700 gathered in Killiney yesterday to voice concerns over what are seen as “anti-dog” regulations on coastal beaches and parks across Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. There was standing room only in the ballroom of Fitzpatrick’s C...

Humans are complicated genetic jigsaw puzzles. Hundreds of genes are involved in determining something as basic as height. But man's best friend is a different story. New research shows that almost every physical trait in dogs — from a dachsh...

Starving, exhausted and crammed into tiny cages, they were just hours away from being killed for restaurants. These shocking pictures were taken after more than 1,500 dogs were found piled one on top of another inside a truck bound for the slau...

There's a good chance she'll get a few extra Choccy Drops in her pay packet after receiving this award. A tiny dog called Lucy has been named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's smallest working dog. The little Yorkshire t...

// A very common complaint heard with respect to dog rescue groups is "they play God." This complaint generally comes from people who have been denied approval to adopt a dog from said rescue group for dubious reasons or from people who have res...

// Are you too confused whether to opt for a dog or a cat? Here we will tell you why your former choice is better than the later one. (1) Dogs are regarded as man's best friend. Have you ever heard any saying like this about cats? (2) You can ...

// If you have a dog that tears up the house when you're gone, or chews his own fur until he's raw he may not be a "bad boy." Instead, it may be a sign of a serious psychological problem in dogs known as separation anxiety. When Fritz pulls up t...

// If your dog does not have enough to do and is suffering from boredom this is likely to lead to your dog misbehaving. So if you are suffering from dog behaviour problems, it might not be that you have a bad or abnormal dog, he (or she) might j...

// Because people are an empathetic breed, we tend to project the emotions and feelings that we feel onto our pets. We have lived with the canine species as members of our own families for centuries while projecting these images. However, you wi...

// You probably would not feel too healthy or look your best if you only ate food that came in cans or dried food in large bags. But this is what many dogs are existing on. We will see how things play out when we look at home cooking VS manufact...