Dogs Are Amazing

Let’s be blunt: the coronavirus pandemic has made life hard, really hard. For everyone.  For blind and visually-impaired runners who depend on a sighted person to run with them, often with some kind of tether, the pandemic has largely brought that uplifting and health-supporting activity to a screeching halt. Social distancing rules, and a desire

Does your dog love to cool off from the summer heat by jumping into a pond, lake, or the ocean? Or your backyard pool?  Most dogs like the water but for some breeds, it’s an environment they love as much as dry land. Newfoundland dogs, or Newfies as they are often called, are instinctually drawn

In the United States alone, there are more than 50,000 registered therapy dogs. Many of them make the rounds in hospitals and nursing homes, with the express purpose of brightening someone’s day. A visit from a therapy dog is always, of course, at the discretion of the person in the hospital or nursing home, but

Scientists across the globe have determined that dogs can identify COVID-19 by its scent, and here in the U. S. dogs are being trained at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine to sniff it out. Using saliva and urine from individuals who are COVID-19 positive (the virus has been inactivated in the samples