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In the News: Josh Hartnett's Cute Companion, Old Dogs May Help Cure Cancer and More

by Kristen Seymour (Subscribe to Kristen Seymour's posts): Mar 16th 2010 12:01PM Filed Under: Dogs, Pets News

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Josh Hartnett has the cutest traveling companion. The hunky star was recently caught going through security at LAX with his furry new friend. We wouldn't blame TSA for giving the puppy a bit of a pat-down.

One Chicago police officer's retirement was slightly overshadowed by the retirement of her short, hairy partner. Sandra La Porta gave 31 years to the job, but her partner, a police dog named Lakos, put in 63... in dog years. Plus, Lakos brought a rubber bone to the ceremony. No one can compete with that.

Old dogs might provide insight into new tricks to improve human health. Purdue University is studying some unusually old rottweilers that have dodged cancer and other common diseases to determine whether the dogs' health can help humans live longer.

Blind woman terrified as her two dogs were attacked in a California barn... by a rattlesnake. Fortunately, she and her mother were able to get them to the vet in time to save their lives with an injection of anti-venom and other treatments.

Five years after Iggy the Lab went for a walk by himself, he's back home. Iggy was just 18 months old when he took off, and his owner was only seven, but now that he's home, it's like he never left. And he never would have returned at all if it weren't for the fact that he was microchipped!

Poodle Refuses to Leave Her Best Friend, an Injured Rottweiler

by Helena Sung (Subscribe to Helena Sung's posts): Oct 19th 2009 5:00PM Filed Under: Dogs, Pets News, Hero Pets, Pet Health, Pet Adoption

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They're unlikely friends, but when a 90 lbs. Rottweiler became stranded in the middle of a dark Ohio road, her tiny best friend, a 9 lbs. poodle, refused to leave her side.

Veterinary assistant Jody Wetzig was working Monday night at the Lorain County Animal Emergency Center when she received a phone call from a woman who had spotted two dogs sitting in the middle of the dark, two-lane road. One was a Rottweiler whose leg appeared to be injured. The other was a small, black poodle who was sitting right next to her bigger friend. The woman didn't know what to do.

"Normally, we don't take in strays," Wetzig explains to Paw Nation. "But if they're injured, we'll try to help, so we told the lady to bring the Rottweiler in."

When the woman arrived with the dogs, she had a touching story to tell. "The woman said that the poodle would not leave the Rottweiler's side," Wetzig recounts. The little dog stayed close as the woman and a passerby eased the Rottweiler onto a blanket. When they loaded the dog into the car, the poodle jumped in too.

Lost Dog Collects Clues That Lead to Family

by Kirsten Taylor (Subscribe to Kirsten Taylor's posts): Oct 1st 2009 1:00PM Filed Under: Dogs, Pets News

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As the operator of Love Me Tender animal rescue, Kathy Wilkes-Myers has saved hundreds of dogs, but she's never dealt with a lost pup like Ella.

The saga began one evening this summer when Wilkes-Myers was driving home from work in central Tennessee. On a rural stretch of highway, she spotted a rottweiler along the side of the road. Always on the lookout for dogs in need of help, she stopped the car and approached the black and brown pup.

"I called her, and to my amazement she crawled toward me and tucked her little head under my arm," Wilkes-Myers tells Paw Nation. Emaciated but friendly, it was immediately clear to Wilkes-Myers that this sweet, trusting dog had come from a loving home.

Near the spot where she found the dog, Wilkes-Myers noticed broken glass and skid marks. As she walked the dog back toward her car, she spotted something else -- a pile of personal items, seemingly gathered up by the dog. "I saw this scratched out nest, and all this stuff in the nest," she says -- a toothbrush, a comb, a single shoe.

On the drive back to her house, Wilkes-Myers remembered a terrible car crash she'd driven past at almost that very spot nearly two weeks earlier. She guessed that the dog survived that accident and had gathered up her family's belongings left over from the crash. "I guess that helped give her some comfort," Wilkes-Myers tells Paw Nation.

Using the clues she discovered along the side of the road, Wilkes-Myers began the hunt for the dog's family. She called the highway patrol and an insurance company whose number she found written on a water-soaked notepad at the crash site. Eventually she learned the name of the family who had been involved in the crash.

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Rottweiler Births 18 Puppies, Smashing UK Record

by Eliot Glazer (Subscribe to Eliot Glazer's posts): Aug 10th 2009 5:00PM Filed Under: Dogs, Pets News

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Nadya Suleman, eat your heart out!

Terrie, a four-year-old Rottweiler, recently gave birth to a litter of 18 puppies, besting the previous UK record by five. Sadly, two of the 18 didn't survive past the first day (one being a stillborn), but Terrie is getting by just fine with the help of her owner, Nicolette Morris of Luton, Beds, and Terrie's other 112-pound son, Jim (from a previous litter of nine).

Although the babies still haven't opened their eyes, 10 females and six males and are cooperatively nursing 1.5oz of milk every four hours and they have already doubled in size.

"I know Rottweilers have got a bad name," says Morris, "but I love the breed. I'd recommend them to anyone."

Morris took on the role of emergency midwife when Terrie went into labor at 12:50 p.m. on Sunday, July 26. "Terrie was absolutely huge before she gave birth but I never dreamt she would have so many," Morris told the Telegraph. "It was staggering. They just kept on coming. I began to wonder if she'd ever stop."

And while 18 is impressive, the Guinness World Records gives the title of largest litter of pups to a Neapolitan Mastiff in Manea, Cambs, who birthed 24 pups in January 2005.

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