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Before any technologically advanced chihuahuas sprout up, let us just say that it wasn't dogs but Microsoft developer Jordan Correa that came up with the DarwinBot.
Basically, this is a telepresence robot that allows him to be with his dog even when at work, if not in body then at least in heart.
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10 February 2012
11:16 GMT |
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A video that was shot a little over a year ago has just gone viral. It has puppies, it has cows and it has lots of cuteness, so it's no wonder it did, even if a bit later.
You can see it in full above.
Lucy is a 6-month boxer (or was at the time the video was shot) from New Castle. On one of her daily walks i... |
23 January 2012
09:27 GMT |
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Bizzle the dog likes to eat. Luckily, his owners knows that he likes to eat, just like they know how great he'd look if he had a pair of human hands to feed himself with. Thus, the latest video to go viral came to be. Bizzle's owners are a couple from Northampton, Guy Jenkins and Bec Medri. They have long w... |
13 December 2011
09:13 GMT |
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If you had times when you wished your dog could join you on the couch with a beer for the game, Bowser Beer has just the thing for you. It's beer for dogs and, most importantly, it's good for their health. Selling beer for dogs might not seem like such a smart idea, but that's before you find out from ... |
15 November 2011
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And they said it wouldn't last: coming to shut down talk of breaking up, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez have moved on to the next stage in their relationship – by adopting a pet together. The twosome were recently spotted being very affectionate towards each other during a recent game and now, People magaz... |
26 October 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Either it is not exactly completely versed in the arts of holding its balance, or the SimLab SQI quadruped robot is acting in order to fool those who easily underestimate others, ensuring their own folly. The robot has a vague, or not so vague (depending on who you ask) resemblance to a dog and is just the latest f... |
14 October 2011
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Each year, at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, the world’s ugliest dog is named and, believe it or not, competition is fierce. For 2011, the much-coveted title, along with the winner’s cup and the prize money, goes to Yoda. As you can see, Yoda is small: she barely weighs 1.8 pounds, can’t hold he... |
27 June 2011
15:01 GMT |
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He may be one of the most popular young actors of the day but, when he’s not surrounded by his screaming fans, Robert Pattinson is actually a very lonely guy. In order to be less alone when he’s on the road, staying at hotels, the British star has adopted a puppy.
The Daily Record has a very extensive i... |
26 February 2011
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Domestic goddess Martha Stewart has always been very open about her love of dogs; in fact, hers even have their own blog. The other day, Stewart was rushed to the emergency room after pup Francesca busted open her lip.
The incident occurred as Martha was getting ready to head out to work, TMZ reports, which also ... |
15 January 2011
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If you’re thinking about getting a pet and you don’t know which to choose between a dog and a cat, you may as well go for a border collie. Chaser, a border collie, has just been named the dog with the largest vocabulary in the world. Researchers at the Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, have ... |
23 December 2010
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We all know that owners can tattoo house pets (dogs or cats) for identification purposes, but getting ink on the pooch or the cat for “art purposes” is not uncommon either. Despite cries of animal cruelty, the debate on whether the act is unspeakable cruelty or not is still raging on online. Take, for ins... |
15 December 2010
13:21 GMT |
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If you ever had the “pleasure” of stepping into dog poop on your way to work or when out for a jog / walk, you should be happy to know you will soon be able to admonish the owner who didn’t scoop it, thanks to a new program called PooPrints.
PooPrints is developed by Bio Pet Vet Lab on the premis... |
4 December 2010
09:31 GMT |
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While some would give an arm and a leg to be allowed to have a pet dog, and others adopt one but would like to be able to have more, one Chinese woman is apparently single-handedly trying to rescue all stray animals. As a report on Orange.UK informs, a Chinese woman has adopted no less than 1,500 dogs in one shelter ... |
1 December 2010
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The tests that are currently used for identifying and excluding aggressive dogs from breeding programs, have only one in three chances of success, animal researcher Joanne van der Borg from Wageningen University, concluded.She is convinced that additional test elements could help identify more dogs that have a tenden... |
26 November 2010
06:26 GMT |
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A new research carried out by the University of Montreal, concluded that a dog might not be just a man's best friend, but it can also play an amazing role in the lives of children with special needs.Sonia Lupien, senior researcher and a professor at the University of Montreal Department of Psychiatry and Directo... |
20 October 2010
10:59 GMT |
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A new study carried out by researchers from St George’s, University of London concluded that children whose families own a dog, are more active and in better physical shape than those without.The research, led by Dr Christopher Owen, senior lecturer in epidemiology at St George’s, was carried out on 2,065... |
21 September 2010
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A new video is going viral: over 40 seconds long, it shows a long-haired girl in a red hoodie, taking squealing puppies out of a white bucket and hurling them into a river, one by one. As outrage cries continue to pour in from all sides, director Michael Bay has also chosen to speak out on the incident, even offering... |
3 September 2010
08:36 GMT |
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This might not be news for people that are used to dogs or even have one as a pet, but the world is large and surely there must be some people that are a bit scared at the thought that if they meet a dog, it will probably attack them.Now, what everyone should know is that dogs never attack without a reason, and if y... |
31 August 2010
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Archaeologists found in a Swiss cave, a jaw fragment belonging to an ancient dog. After radiocarbon-dating it they concluded that it is over 14,000 years old and that it might be the earliest dog ever known.Establishing when the first fully-domesticated wolf became a dog is a rather sensitive subject among researcher... |
24 July 2010
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The question of which makes a better pet, a cat or a dog, has been on the table for years, with defenders of each camp going to great lengths to show how one pet is better than the other. Speaking strictly from a scientific point of view, it seems dogs are much better friends to man than cats are, therefore the battl... |
10 December 2009
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You know what rules in the Dragon Age game world? A party made up of three mages and just one warrior specializing as a tank. There are mages, Morrigan and Wynne, that you can recruit in the game and can concentrate on damage dealing and on healing and buffs. The player can also create a mage character and specialize... |
24 November 2009
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The general consensus is that, should one be asked to describe heiress Paris Hilton in just three terms, those would be “Chihuahua,” “vapid” and “superficial.” This is not the first time that Paris has come under heavy fire for her pets, but it does mark a first when she is named a... |
14 February 2009
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They say poodles are amongst the cuddliest dog breeds there are, with few exceptions. However, former French President Jacques Chirac would tell an entirely different story, after being rushed to the hospital following a “vicious attack” of his pet Maltese, Sumo. Sumo, it should be noted, has been sufferi... |
23 January 2009
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It's been a while since we looked at another Mac vs PC ad, hasn't it? It seems that with the passing of each day, Windows PC realizes he has very little chance keeping everyone interested in him with Mac out in the wild too. That's why PC has decided to write a sad song dubbed "the Vista Blues", which ... |
16 May 2008
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Nowadays, not only iguana and parrot pets get to be green. Dogs too can do it. And, mind you, we’re not talking here about painted dogs from commercials. Recently, a green-coated puppy has been born at a New Orleans animal shelter. The puppy's coat looks as if it should have been white, displaying a decidedly ve... |
14 May 2008
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It is said that dogs live in a world of scents. Imagine that, in humans, the olfactory mucosa is about 10 square centimeters, and in dogs of 150! Their hearing is also sharper than ours and they detect ultrasounds (the bats' sonar must be a nightmare for them). But this does not mean vision is not important for ... |
14 May 2008
16:41 GMT |
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The dog may be man's best friend, but sometimes this can be true in ways you would not have expected. A new research published in the European Respiratory Journal shows that young kids having a pet dog may have a stronger immune system that could protect them against asthma and other allergies. The team, led by ... |
7 May 2008
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The tombs of ancient Native Americans in the modern southwestern US have been found to contain hundreds of dog remains. A new study, recently presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archeology in Vancouver, Canada, and representing the first results of an investigation on dog burial places encount... |
29 April 2008
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They are shot, trapped, poisoned by sheep and cattle farmers. No wonder that the Australian wild dog, the dingo, is menaced. Ecologists warn that pure breed animals may vanish in 40-100 years, due to the cross with the ordinary dogs. By now, the main issue is the proliferation of the hybrids. Dingoes mate once a year... |
15 April 2008
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A man who calls himself an artist ties a dog to a wall inside an art gallery. No, you heard me correctly - we're not talking about the night janitor who caught the starving animal littering the front steps of the gallery and decided to vent a lifetime of frustration by pulling off a ridiculously cruel stunt. We&... |
31 March 2008
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There are 8 living species of bears. Bears split of raccoons and bear-dogs about 35 MA ago. The first bears were small, resembling the dogs. Panda bear was the first bear to diverge from the branch that led to the other bears. The bamboo diet turned them big. Millions of years later, the ancestor of the other bears a... |
19 February 2008
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The Labrador dog has a mysterious origin. Even if credited to Canada, its ancestors might have been brought from northern Europe. Some even attribute its origins with Erik the Red, the viking chief that stepped foot on North America five centuries before Columbus. What is sure is that this dog had already spent some ... |
19 February 2008
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For centuries, the Collie dogs were known only on the plains of Scotland, where they wrangled large sheep herds grazing freely. Than, in 1860, Queen Victoria spent a holiday at the Scottish Balmoral Castle and, seduced by these amazing dogs, on her return, she brought some exemplars to the Windsor Palace. Impulsed by... |
18 February 2008
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Sled dogs, like the Samoyed (western Siberia), Alaskan Malamute, Canadian Eskimo Dog and Greenland Dog, are generally called Husky, but the only variant officially recognized as a breed is the Siberian husky (a better term for naming northern dogs is "spitz"). The Siberian husky was used by the nomad Inuit (Eskimo) p... |
14 February 2008
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In the heaven of the tomb raiders, an American-Russian team has managed to find 4 ancient tombs with well-preserved mummies, ornate painted coffins, and mummified dogs. The necropolis of Deir el-Banat is located in the oasis El Faiyum, 50 mi (80 km) southwest of Cairo, a place also famous for the discoveries of the o... |
31 January 2008
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Learning the dog "speech" can seem impossible, but a new research published in the journal Animal Cognition could help us: a software that translates dog "language" to us. The software has been developed by Csaba Molnar from Eoetvoes Lorand University in Hungary. The program can assign dog barks to different situatio... |
17 January 2008
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From about 15,000 years, humans rely on one animal as guardian: the dog. In time, we have created more aggressive, more massive, more dreadful dog breeds for this purpose. But only dogs save our asses?1.There is the famous legend (and historical fact) of the geese that saved Rome in 300 BC from the attack of the Celt... |
7 January 2008
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This is definitely just about the hottest photo of the season. I mean, in terms of celebrity class and refinement. I was just telling you about how the Beckhams seem to think they're just about the sexiest couple in the world. Well, I just realized I made a mistake - and I repent for ever having thought that, at... |
13 December 2007
04:46 GMT |
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We are more used to see beasts like horse, donkey, mule, cattle, buffalo, camels, llama, yak, or elephant being used as working animals. At least in the documentaries. But in the 19th century Europe, dog traction was a popular mini-version of horse traction. Usually, dogs were harnessed to a two wheel (rarely four wh... |
10 December 2007
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This is the gentle giant of the dogs. The Irish Wolfhound breed has originally been created for wolf hunting, as its look has very few in common with a wolf. There are no more wolves in Ireland today, but they did exist there once. Also, there were wild boars and deer. It seems that the last Irish wolf was hunted 200... |
4 December 2007
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1.Numerous studies showed that the love for your pets can improve your health. It decreases stress, the number of visits to the doctor's, and even increases the survival chances in case of heart attack. A pet can help stroke patients to recover and psychiatric patients to hold on their anxiety. Pets appease peop... |
3 December 2007
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Dogs are fairly intelligent, they learn rapidly and it is not too difficult to train them, but a new Austrian research published online in Animal Cognition has really come up with a surprise: dogs seem to be able to form abstract concepts. We do not dare to attribute this even to apes, but the team led by Friederike ... |
29 November 2007
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There may be an economical boom in China, but do cheap products respect consumers' life? After toxic compounds were found in Chinese toothpaste and so-called "herbal drugs", now the cause of the toxicity of pet food brought from China has been explained by an UC Davis team in a research published in the Journal ... |
29 November 2007
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In many cultures, a fox is the symbol for a cunning person; in others a vixen is the symbol for the lascivious woman. But what do you really know about this animal?1.During the Ice Age, 400-650,000 years ago, the red fox and polar fox split from a common ancestor, Vulpes alopecoides. 2.Foxes can live solitary, in cou... |
22 November 2007
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For some of us a dog is more important than a human. It is easier to interact with a dog. The animal cannot criticize or underappreciate you. But the more frequent tendency to own a pet has revealed that British vets signal there is an increasing need for a national blood bank for dogs.What's working for humans ... |
15 November 2007
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These are the extremes: the world's tallest dog Gibson (7 ft / 2.1 m tall when standing on his hind legs) has met Boo Boo (4 in / 10 cm high) the world's smallest dog in Sacramento, California for Guinness World Records Day 2007.No doubt, the Chihuahua, a dog race that has its origins in northwestern Mexico... |
9 November 2007
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Dogs have evolved from wolves. And wolves are nocturnal predators; you can see that very well by analyzing the behavior of stray dog packs. The same dogs that seem very quiet and calm during the day will attack any human passing through their "territory" at night. Indeed, at night or in a forest, eyesight does not he... |
9 November 2007
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In US and Europe it is called the Boogie Man, while in Latin America (specifically Mexico and Puerto Rico) it is known as the Chupacabra (the Spanish for "Goatsucker"): a type of mythical vampire-creature that sucks the blood of the goats and the chickens and frightens the children. That's why Phylis Canion, a h... |
5 November 2007
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What a cute little puppy... but few realize that in a few months they are already big beasts. And how many people know that dogs have preserved through generations many of the instincts of their ancestors, the wolves? Anyhow, children are the most exposed to dog bites, with more severe effects.A new research made by ... |
5 October 2007
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Who could doubt that Chihuahua dogs, a race that has its origins in the north of Mexico, are the world's smallest pooches? The problem is now that there is a fierce competition on deciding upon the world's smallest Chihuahua/dog. At one and a half year old, Boo Boo, a long coated Chihuahua, of just 4 inche... |
1 October 2007
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