Finally, it's safe to read "Where the Red Fern Grows"

Today’s house-proud animals are joining the luxury property market

New York City said the doghouses on sidewalks outside stores were illegal but they are welcome at rest stops along the New York State Thruway.

Barbra Streisand is not alone. At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous. It’s made for more than a few questions of bioethics.

Two recent cases of a rare infection are raising awareness — and anxiety — about the risks of interacting with dogs and cats. Sharon Larson of South Milwaukee died on June 23 at age 58, after her dog nipped her hand. Starting that same month, Greg Manteufel, 48, of nearby West Bend, Wisconsin, lost both hands and both lower legs to amputation to save his life. Though he came into contact with a few dogs, he said, he was not bitten by any of them. In both patients' blood, doctors found the bacteria Capnocytophaga canimorsus.

A South Korean court has ruled the killing of dogs for meat is illegal, in a landmark decision that animal rights activists have said could pave the way to outlawing the eating of canines. The meat has long been a part of South Korean cuisine, with about 1 million dogs believed to be eaten annually, but consumption has declined and the practice is now something of a taboo among younger generations amid increased pressure from activists.

Authorities in Macau, the world’s largest gambling hub, will care for more than 600 greyhounds after their owner renounced them ahead of the closure of China’s only dog-racing track on Saturday. The move is likely to save former Australian racing dogs, which were exported to Macau in huge numbers and faced an uncertain fate when the track closes.

Late Friday a video from the Houston Humane Society went viral, showing an Australian shepherd and border collie mix male named Hunter in the hours after his previous owners surrendered him. In the video Hunter can be seen nuzzling one of the volunteers at the shelter and within hours the video was viewed more than 40,000 times and shared thousands of times across various social media platforms.

An Oregon sheriff's deputy used an overdose-fighting drug to save a police dog that was exposed to heroin at a county jail. The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office says a deputy and his K-9 partner Abbie were searching for contraband Tuesday night when the dog detected heroin in a container. The container spilled and Abbie began exhibiting signs of drug exposure, including rapid blinking and head shaking.

Don’t mess with me! That’s the signal small dogs seem to be sending when they pee on things, according to a new study. Researchers have found that the smaller a pooch is, the higher it lifts its leg to mark lamp posts, trees, and other objects—and these exaggerated urine streams may fool other dogs into thinking a large canine is in the area.

A couple from Peoria, Illinois is searching for answers after an animal control center admitted one of its employees mistakenly euthanized their dog. A few weeks ago, a city maintenance worker came into Tony Wang's backyard unannounced. Wang's dog Moses was in the backyard and bit the maintenance worker. Wang told WMBD his dog thought the man was an intruder, but that Moses was not a vicious dog.

An 11-year-old girl is safe from an attempted kidnapping after her dog bit the attacker in the leg on Sunday morning. Pasadena Police said a man grabbed the girl by the arm and tried dragging her into a dark grey SUV near Willow Oaks Circle in central Pasadena. The beagle terrier mix, named Ray, bit the suspect in the leg and allowed the child to run away to safety, Pasadena Police said.

There is an urban myth that dogs can smell human emotions, now it seems to be true: dogs can sense a person’s emotional state just by sniffing a sample of their sweat

The truth about the first dog in space came out a little at a time, over decades. And we still may not know the full story.

Rescue Paws Curacao Foundation, an animal rescue organization, received a call about a little black dog who was found living under a container on a big lot near Sambil, limping around on three legs. The town had plans to build an amusement park on the lot of land that the dog was living on, so the rescue team knew they had to save him as soon as possible before he no longer had a safe place to hide.

Everywhere humans go, we take our pets. Fleas are along for the ride, spreading everything from typhus to bubonic plague.

A labrador puppy that was to be put down because its owners could not afford life-saving surgery has been saved by a student veterinary nurse who stepped in at the last moment. Fay Alsworth from St Clement Veterinary Clinic in Truro, Cornwall, raised £3,000 in six days to pay for Nelly to have a specialist operation in Somerset. The dog has been suffering with a liver shunt and her new owners said they had not had a chance to arrange pet insurance before she was diagnosed.

The new and unprecedented K-9 Artifact Finders Program, run by researchers at Red Arch Cultural Heritage Law and Policy Research, in partnership with Penn Vet Working Dog Center, trains dogs to sniff out looted and illicitly traded artifacts.

When Nicole Grimes, from the US state of Pennsylvania, spotted a pomeranian-poodle cross for adoption on Facebook, she thought it looked strangely familiar. Nicole says she was reminded of her beloved childhood puppy called Chloe, so she decided to adopt the 11-year-old dog "on a whim". Speaking to the BBC, Nicole said: "When I found out they were both called Chloe it was really strange. "It just clicked when she was introduced to me as Chloe." Nicole described the moment when she came face-to-face with her 'new' dog.

More than four months after its owner died, a dog still refuses to leave the entry of a hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The dog's owner, a homeless man, was stabbed in a local park and rushed to Santa Casa de Novo Horizonte medical centre where he died from his injuries, according to local media reports. Following the fatal incident, the dog chased the ambulance carrying his owner and has waited at the doors of the medical centre ever since.

Scientists have shown that the way we speak to our canine friends is important in relationship-building between pet and owner, similar to the way that 'baby-talk' is to bonding between a baby and an adult.

Dog cloning. You’ve probably heard about it. Barbra Streisand certainly has, and she’s not alone.

Treats and kibble made with fungus offer high protein from plant-based foods, but not all pets may be able to make the switch.

Whether your pet wants to be around its owner or a stranger depends on the situation, a new study says.

A stray Moscow pup traveled into orbit in 1957 with one meal and only a seven-day oxygen supply

A three-year-old girl is found safe and well with her family's blue heeler after spending more than 15 hours lost on their rural property.

The RSPCA is urging people not to buy dogs with cropped ears after a surge in the number of reports about the illegal practise. Cropping involves cutting the animal's ears often for cosmetic reasons and then placing splints inside - forcing them to grow upwards. The animal charity has described the procedure as "painful and entirely unnecessary".

The 12-week-old Weimaraner puppy joined the institution’s Protective Services team last month as part of a pilot programme to train man's best friend to sniff out pests that may be lurking in works made from organic materials, food, waste, flowers and plants.

Dogs cannot get ‘autism’, the British Veterinary Association has warned, after the ‘anti-vaccine’ movement spread to pets.

It seems that once they’ve inhaled, it’s impossible for them to ever forget the scent

The world’s most influential synthetic biologist is behind a new company that plans to rejuvenate dogs using gene therapy. If it works, he plans to try the same approach in people, and he might be one of the first volunteers. The stealth startup Rejuvenate Bio, cofounded by George Church of Harvard Medical School, thinks dogs aren’t just man’s best friend but also the best way to bring age-defeating treatments to market.

A beagle named Guy was in a Kentucky kill shelter until Ontario-based A Dog's Dream Rescue saved him and offered him for adoption at a 2015 event in Canada. That's where he met his new owner, Markle, who went on to marry Britain's Prince Harry on Saturday.

The canine clinical trial will vaccinate 800 healthy pets