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Brave black labrador Jet is lavished with praise after springing into action to save her registered blind owner's one-year-old sonA guide dog saved the life of a baby by shoving the little boy’s pram out of the way of an out-of-control car. Black labrador Jet sprung into action when her owner Jessica Cowley was crossing the entrance to a car park with her one-year-old, Jacob in his buggy. A car coming out of the car park was shunted from behind and knocked Jessica over. But clever Jet immediately pushed Jacob’s pram out of the way. Jessica, 26, who is registered...

From The Antelope Valley Press in California comes the story of our K-9 contingent in Iraq. Chief Warrant Officer Peter Zorba, of Squadron HMM-764 "The Moonlighters" writes: I fly into Baghdad almost every night, but this night's mission was a special ASR (assault support request). A Marine K-9 had been killed and another dog wounded earlier in the day and we were going there to pick up the dead K-9, the wounded K-9 and their Marine handlers. How these Marines were attacked, whether in contact with insurgents, a sniper or an improvised explosive device (IED), we never knew. We took...

New York, NY – The AKC Companion Animal Recovery and AKC Canine Health Foundation have approved funding that will allow Cynthia Otto, DVM, PhD, at the University of Pennsylvania to continue to study the health of the dogs deployed to the World Trade Center and the Pentagon following the terrorist attacks in September 2001. The new two-year grant, effective January 1, 2005, from the AKC Companion Animal Recovery Search and Rescue Fund as well as a matching donation from the AKC Canine Health Foundation (totaling $76,245), will allow for continued observation of the dogs in an effort to evaluate the...