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Succulent sniffers: Delta is one of three dogs trained to detect rare, endangered and threatened plant species that have been poached in the Succulent Karoo. Photos supplied by Endangered Wildlife Trust

Dogs sniff out succulent thieves

Meet the dogs who are helping combat the plant poaching that serves insatiable overseas markets

Dog owners must be aware of the legal consequences attached to the ownership of their animals.

Dangerous dogs and the law: What owners or victims of a canine attack need to know

Depending on the circumstances, ownership of a vicious dog may attract criminal and/or delictual liability

Wan-Wan Patrol: (from left, front) Keiko Shimizu with her Yorkshire terrier, Marika Igarashi, and 12-year-old Yurika Igarashi with poodle Sakura. Photo: Philip Fong/AFP

Wan-Wan Patrol: Four-legged friends keep Tokyo neighbourhood safe

Meet the pups of Tokyo’s real-life Paw Patrol

Syrian Kurdish dog breeder Mohammed Derbas pets one of his Saluki dogs in the village of Ad-Derbasiyah — one of the many hounds he raises for sale to the Gulf. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

War and Covid slow trade in Saluki dogs

Salukis, cousins of the greyhound, have been used for hunting for thousands of years in the Middle East and are some of the fastest canines.

A still from ‘Clebs’, a documentary by Swiss-Moroccan director Halima Ouardir

Review: The documentary ‘Clebs’ is an allegory for the human condition

‘Clebs’, which documents more than 750 dogs at a sanctuary in Morocco, provides some timely symbolism as it points to human truths

Founders’ love: Samantha Berger, of the pro-life nonprofit Kitty and Puppy Haven. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

‘There is heartbreak every day’

People are handing over their pets to shelters, but they too are battling financially

Champ was eventually pulled away from the corpse, his eyes apparently a bloody red

What the? A sex-crazed pitbull chases, kills and humps a cow in King William’s Town

What could have been a simple mischievous dog-chases-cow story turned into a very bizarre one

Rumor has it: Top dogs compete for honours in New York

A German shepherd named Rumor won the Westminster Dog Show.

Research has found that when your Labrador or pavement special looks at you with those puppy-dog eyes

Guess what? Scientists have proved that Fido loves you more than dog biscuits

Dogs have evolved to be so dependent on us that, in tests, they are seen to pick affection over food.

The foundation’s client list includes princes

​Seoul cloning lab promises Fido forever

Sooam Biotech Research Foundation has cloned about 800 dogs for owners or state agencies, at a cost of $100 000 each.

Ban on black boerboel exports at the heart of breeders’ row

It’s not all black and white – the government’s clampdown is meant to protect the popular dog’s purebred status.

Weather information can now be gathered even in remote areas.

Airports go to the dogs to save lives

Man’s best friend has been brought on board to chase foraging birds from local airstrips.

I am an African and I grieve for my dog Bruno

There is no shame in cherishing our pets, who help us connect with our roots and our humanity.

Sooam Biotech said it had cloned the puppy

Britain’s first cloned dog dubbed ‘ridiculous waste of money’

The cloning of a dachshund puppy named Mini-Winnie by a Korean company called Sooam Biotech has raised ethical issues, say scientists.

A puppy up for adoption from the Claw animal shelter. (From Claw Facebook page)

W Rand animal shelter threatened by protests

The Claw animal shelter has been struggling to survive after a week without water and service delivery protests that threaten its offices.

Meet the world’s ‘Spoiled Rotten Pets’

Pigs that go to spas and dogs with psychics are just some of the hopelessly spoiled pets on a new Nat Geo Wild TV show.

Gauteng won’t be introducing a barking bylaw such as the one in Cape Town.

Every dog has its day: Gauteng muzzles Cape Town barking law

Gauteng authorities have dismissed the idea of introducing municipal bylaws to curb dogs barking – similar to those in Cape Town.

Researchers have found that dogs have a remarkable ability to detect lung cancer in humans.

Dogs able to detect lung cancer, study suggests

Dogs are surprisingly adept at sniffing out lung cancer, results from a pilot project in Austria have suggested.

Inner-city Johannesburg is littered with pamphlets selling almost everything under the sun.

Street View: A dog diptych

From a multi-storey compound to the buzzing streets of Jo’burg, man’s best friend occupies an almost divine presence, writes Percy Zvomuya.

Alfred Matywatywa is the man behind a dog show in which David Zihlangu’s cross-Alsatian

Barking mad laws keep pet owners on a tight leash

Cape Town has South Africa’s toughest rules to deal with animal behaviour, including noise limits and pooh. But do they work?