A landlord in Muzaffargarh set his ferocious dogs on a four-year-old girl for picking onions from his field.According to sources, the incident took place two weeks ago, when the landlord turned his dogs on the four year old girl, critically injuring her when the vicious animals bit her nose. ...

On behalf of the residents of Jamilabad Taxila, I would like to request DDHO Rawalpindi and Administrator TMA Taxila to resolve an issue that has been plaguing our area. There are stray dogs and cats in every city, but here they have become a menace to the residents. They roam around in packs and ...

HAFIZABAD Like dacoits, robbers and thieves, dogs have also been left unbridled across the district of Hafizabad particularly in Mohallah Dhab Wala, Farooq-e-Azam, Mohallah Rashidpura, Qila Sahib Singh, Mohallah Mughal Pura and Mangat Road due to apathetic attitude of the authorities ...

  BEIJING   A Chinese city is using dogs to predict earthquakes, an official said Tuesday, after state-run media reported that neighbours were complaining of nightly false alarms - in the form of barking. Chinais regularly hit by seismic tremors. Around 200 people were left dead or ...

LONDON DM - The force is definitely strong with this lot of adorable pooches. Barking-mad Star Wars fans are now being offered the chance to dress their dogs up as characters from the blockbuster science fiction films. Pet owners can take their pick from a ‘realistic’ range of canine ...

MOSCOW - Russia's Olympic host city of Sochi ran into controversy Thursday after the city authorities announced a plan to exterminate more than 2,000 stray cats and dogs ahead of the Games next year. In a tender posted online this month, the authorities asked companies to bid for a contract to ...

An artist Nirit Levav has found a way to create beautiful art a recycle metal, at the same time. She uses discarded bicycle chains to create realistic sculptures of man’s best friend. Nirit Levav Packer graduated from the Parsons School of Design, in New York City, with a degree in fashion ...

HONG KONG  - More than 300 dogs had their teeth brushed in Hong Kong on Sunday in an attempt to set a new world record for the most canines having their pearly whites cleaned at the same time. Owners of the 312 pooches scrubbed the animals’ teeth for three minutes using a special brush ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Babies who spend time around pet dogs have fewer ear infections and respiratory ailments than those whose homes are animal-free, said a study released on Monday.The study, published in the US journal Pediatrics, did not say why but suggested that being around a dog that spends at ...

Dogs are compelled to yawn if they hear their owners do the same, according to a new study.Researchers claimed that dogs responded to an audio cue such as a yawn even if they didn’t see the action taking place.The study found this was particularly noticeable when the dogs were listening to ...

BANGKOK - The Thai navy has rescued hundreds of dogs destined for Vietnamese dinner tables in an operation to tackle border smuggling, a naval official said. Following a tip-off, they found about 750 dogs packed into cages on a truck which were about to be loaded onto a ferry on the Mekong river in ...

COLOMBO  - Sri Lanka has lifted a moratorium on killing stray dogs as the government attempts to cut down on the 2,000 people that are hospitalised every day after being bitten, a media report said Saturday.Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena told the Swarnavahini television network that the ...

Rabies is one of the oldest and highly fatal viral diseases transmissible to humans. WHO reports 55,000 human deaths every year due to rabies across the world including highest number in Asia and Africa. In Pakistan the average number of reported cases of human rabies is 10,000 per year however, ...

ROME (Reuters) - If you live in Italy and if the barking of your dogs keeps the neighbours up at night, it's you who might wind up caged - in a jail cell. The top appeals court sentenced four people in Sicily to two months in jail because they refused to keep their 10 dogs quiet at night despite ...

LAHORE Inquiry committee of disputed falling of boy from the plane has sought help of the sniffer dogs and army personnel to reach any conclusion on Sunday. The committee headed by Joint Secretary Aviation, (Ministry of Defence) Farooq Arshad Faheem, Director Security, CAA, Air Commodore, Gulzar ...

At least seven persons have been bitten by stray dogs in the area Rehmat Abad of Gharib Abad. The residents said that the ever increasing number of stray dogs in the area is creating problems for us. There are more than hundred dogs which have been perturbing the locals. They said that most of the ...

The inhabitants of posh sector of the capital, F-10/1 have expressed their concern over rising number of stray dogs in the sector. The people have pointed out that the beasts have made their life difficult as these dogs not only pose formidable threats to their health but also their lives. The ...

BANGKOK (AFP) - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Tuesday he had ordered the military to stop buying a British-made bomb scanner after tests proved it performed worse than a sniffer dog. Abhisit said Thailand had already spent at least $21 million on between 700 and 800 of the detectors ...

LAHORE - Public Health Department (PHD) of the City District Government (CDG) has killed 16,425 stray dogs in year 2009, but still hundreds are roaming in the streets of the metropolis, posing a threat of eruption of rabies. According to a report of the PHD, the dogs killing teams comprising the ...

LAHORE - Owing to the negligence of PHA staff, stray dogs on Sunday tore into pieces nine precious peacocks confined in shabby cages at Bagh-e-Jinnah. The visitors expressed grief and sorrow over the gruesome incident and held the PHA officials responsible for the terrible episode. Following the ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Hundreds of women have rallied to demand the death penalty for a man who shackled a girl with dogs for 18 years and abused her, the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported on Friday. The man took custody of her when his mother, who had been caring for the girl, died. The ...

WHEN it comes to a fight between a dog and a cute little deer, you would expect there to be no contest. And youd be right. Rover limps home with his tail between his legs - and some nasty gashes into the bargain. An increasing number of dog-owners in rural Bedfordshire are reporting attacks by ...

THINKING about adopting a perky little puppy as a friend for your fluffy cat, but worried that they'll fight " well, like cats and dogs? Think again. New research at Tel Aviv University, the first of its kind in the world, has found a new recipe for success. According to the study, if the cat is ...

LONDON  For 75 years, sleek greyhounds have chased the mechanical 'hare' round the sandy track at Walthamstow Stadium in east London, roared on by hopeful punters standing just a few steps away. But a proud tradition has been snuffed out. On Saturday, the stadium closed its doors, almost ...

Pakistan today including Middle East and northern Asia, Europe and northern America will witness partial eclipse of the moon in the wee hours of August 17. According to Karachi University Institute of Space and Planetary Austro-physics' Director, Professor Dr. Muhammad Shahid Quraishi the last ...