Loyal LA dog to be reclaimed by her family
Grace is now Maggie again. The loyal black Lab, who was videotaped as she guarded the body of a yellow Lab killed by a car in Southern California, will be reunited with her family. Maggie’s family...
View ArticleTrucker’s lost dog, a Yorkie named Rambo, found waiting for him at Missouri...
A truck driver pulled out of a rest area in Hannibal, Missouri, last Friday, unaware that anything was wrong. He got all the way to Cedar Rapids, Iowa before he realized something was missing — his...
View ArticleBuck, a Lab, walks 500 miles from Virginia to return to his owner in Myrtle...
Some dogs stories tend to sound a lot like fish stories. But that’s not to say we’re casting any aspersions on this one. Mark Wessells of Myrtle Beach, S.C., says that six months after he dropped his...
View ArticleDog tracks down his hospitalized owner
Last Thursday, John Dolan picked up his ringing cell phone and was told to come get his dog, who was standing outside Good Samaritan Medical Center in Islip, N.Y. A hospital employee had come across...
View ArticleWoof in Advertising: Loyal companions
Subaru has done it again. This heartwarming commercial follows a young man over the years, making the point that, whatever else might change, his two most loyal companions do not — his chocolate Lab...
View ArticleJudge’s dream: Remembering a friend
I’m not sure any dog owner can, with any degree of certainty, know what his dog is dreaming, or for that matter thinking, but the owner of this big fella imagines that he’s missing a friend. The dog,...
View ArticleDog in China stays by stricken friend’s side
After a stray dog was struck by a car in Zhangzhou, China, her canine companion stayed by her side for six hours, nudging her with his nose, licking her, and, according to a local butcher, even...
View ArticleGerman shepherd shows up for Mass daily at church where master’s funeral was...
A dog in Italy who attended his owner’s funeral has been showing up at the church where it was held everyday for two months. Maria Margherita Lochi died late last year, and her funeral was held at the...
View ArticleStray dog found nursing kitten along creek
An animal control officer in South Carolina responded to a call about a barking dog behind a Home Depot, and was touched when she discovered what all the noise was about. “This is one example of why I...
View ArticleLion and dachshund: Who’s getting exactly what out of this relationship?
When it comes to animals, there are those softies among us who see nearly everything they do – especially dogs — as magical and motivated by love. Then there are those – generally not ohmidog! readers...
View ArticleA loyal dog on a lonely stretch of highway
Watch CBS News Videos Online When Kathy Wilkes-Myers of Love Me Tender Animal Rescue found a Rottweiler on the side of a highway in Tennessee, she immediately got the feeling the dog belonged to...
View Articleohmidog! Having fun with Google Analytics
Based on my Google Analytics — the service that tells me how many people are reading ohmidog!, where they come from and what they have in their refrigerators — I thought it might be fun to make some...
View ArticleHachiko: The movie trailer, in Japanese
Here — just because it all seems so circular — is a Japanese trailer for an American movie based on a Japanese legend. The soon to be released “Hachiko: A Dog’s Story” is an Americanized version of...
View ArticleDog stays at dead master’s side for a week
When Parley Nichols, 81, went missing from his home in Hartville, Ohio, his family wasn’t surprised to learn that the dog who never left his side was missing, too. Six-year-old Lady, a golden retriever...
View ArticleDogs and the fine art of freeloading
It occurs to me – tooling down the highway tends to make things occur to me – that in my current journey, with my dog, across America, mooching off friends and family and, given the opportunity,...
View ArticleHachiko had cancer, Japanese scientists find
Seventy-five years after his death, scientists say they have determined what killed Hachiko, the legendary Akita whose story has been immortalized in his native Japan and the rest of the world. Japan’s...
View ArticleThe real million dollar dog
NPR’s Scott Simon took up the subject of dogs today — specifically, those two tsunami survivors we first showed you four days ago. (Here they are again, above.) They were caught on camera by Fuji TV...
View ArticleThe truth about the tsunami dog duo
Truth, always elusive, is even tougher to get a handle on in the chaotic aftermath of a tsunami — and that’s one reason the fate of the two dogs pictured in the now famous video of one stranded dog...
View ArticleSome brotherly love goes viral
A story of brotherly love — canine style — has spread from Philadelphia across the world after a shelter volunteer posted a photo of two snuggling pit bulls, one of whom helps his blind brother get...
View ArticleColombian vice president declines ambassadorship — to stay home with dog
Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon says he turned down an ambassadorship in Brazil because the climate there would not be healthy for his dog And when we say climate, we mean the weather. Garzon,...
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