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Dive into the world of dogs — from loyal companion breeds and working dogs to wild canines like wolves and foxes, with expert insights into behavior, training, breeds, and care.
2011 stories
A restaurant in California can’t legally turn away a customer because their dog is working, but plenty of hosts and servers still get the rules wrong.
New Mexico is one of the few states where a service dog still in training gets the exact same restaurant access as a fully trained service animal.
Walk into any diner from Omaha to Scottsbluff and you might spot a Labrador quietly tucked under a booth, vest-free and unbothered by the smell of fried food.
Wolf-dog hybrid laws in Alabama do not give you a clean yes-or-no answer, and that ambiguity has already had tragic consequences.
Every Halloween, thousands of costumed kids walk up driveways across Boise, Meridian, and Coeur d’Alene to knock on doors for candy.
Every October 31st, thousands of costumed kids fan out across Georgia neighborhoods, ringing doorbells and reaching for candy bowls on porches where a dog may be pacing just behind the screen door.
Pack the leash and skip the guesswork: dogs on hiking trails in Illinois are welcome in far more places than they’re excluded from, but the rules change depending on whether you’re on state land, federal forest, or a county preserve.
You send your child up a stranger’s driveway in a costume, they knock on a door decorated with cobwebs, and within seconds a dog you’ve never met lunges past the storm door.
You might expect Indiana to treat a wolf-dog hybrid the way it treats a captive bear or a bobcat, complete with wildlife permits and DNR inspections.
If you’re thinking about bringing a wolf-dog hybrid into your Wisconsin home, you’re stepping into a legal category that most dog owners never have to consider.
Roughly half a million American adults with disabilities rely on a service animal to get through daily life, and a good number of them eat out just like everyone else.
Grab the leash, but check the map first — the rules change depending on which agency owns the trail.
Wolf-dog hybrid laws in Wyoming leave almost no room for interpretation: private ownership is illegal, regardless of how much wolf ancestry the animal carries or how tame it appears.
Dogs on hiking trails in Oklahoma are welcome in the vast majority of state parks, national forests, and wildlife refuges, but the leash rules aren’t as simple as “keep them close.
Every Halloween, thousands of costumed kids walk up driveways they’ve never set foot on before, ring an unfamiliar doorbell, and wait a few feet from a dog they’ve never met.
Every Halloween, thousands of costumed kids walk up unfamiliar porches across Alabama looking for candy, and some of those porches have a dog behind the door.
If you’re thinking about bringing a wolf-dog hybrid into your home, Montana is one of the more permissive places in the country to do it.
Most people assume a “wolf-dog” is either fully legal or completely banned, but Kentucky splits the difference in a way that trips up a lot of would-be owners.
Missouri has no single statewide leash law for dogs, so the rules that apply to your hike depend entirely on who manages the land underneath your boots.
Walk into any diner in Providence or a seafood spot on the Newport waterfront, and you might spot a dog quietly sitting under a table while its handler eats.
