Dogs

An Airline Actually Saved a Dog’s Life for Once

It’s dangerous to take your pet on an airplane. This is a lesson that Michelle Burt learned the hard way. On a recent JetBlue flight from Florida to Massachusetts, her French bulldog started to appear uncomfortable while the plane was in the air. Soon, the poor pup’s tongue was blue, and Burt knew there was…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jul 9

America’s First Dogs Were Wiped Out by Europeans, but Their Genetic Legacy Lives on as a Sexually Transmitted Cancer

The evolutionary journey of how dogs came to occupy millions of human living rooms is a complicated one, filled with detours and false starts. A new study out Thursday in Science seems to better illuminate one of these detours. It suggests the first domesticated dogs to come to the Americas were brought by humans migrating…

Biology Ed Cara Jul 5

Another DNA Testing Company Reportedly Gets Fooled by Dog DNA

Consumer DNA testing is going to the dogs. A Canadian testing company has been accused of sending back supposedly human ancestry results on a faux sample that actually came from a chihuahua named Snoopy, CBC News reported Wednesday. Remarkably, it’s the second company reported to have been fooled by doggy DNA in recent months, but…

Biology Ed Cara Jun 14

This Robot Dog Movie Is Transformers Meets Lassie

It’s called A.X.L., and it’s about to change your life. Well, not really, but it damn sure is going to try. Written and directed by Oliver Daly, A.X.L. is about a robot dog who is found in a junkyard by a boy, played by Alex Neustaedter. The boy and the dog form a bond, as…

io9 Germain Lussier May 17

Dog-Walking App Wag, Which Is Kind of Like an Uber for Dogs, Reportedly Loses Another Good Boy [Updated]

Dog-walking service Wag, the subject of fairly numerous press reports in the tabloid media regarding lost canines, has come up again in NYC rag the New York Post in reference to yet another pup that slipped a leash. According to the Post’s report, said dog is named Teddy, was lost in East Harlem on May…

Biology Tom McKay May 15

A Dozen Homeless Dogs From Chernobyl Are Being Put Up for Adoption in the U.S.

As Ernest Hemingway might’ve said: Good dogs, for adoption, minor radiation. Ukrainian state officials have announced that about 200 dogs from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are planned to be put up for adoption in the U.S., with the first 12 flying out in June. Chernobyl, about an hour north of Kiev, was the site of…

Tech News Matt Novak May 14

I DNA Tested My Cat and She Was Not Happy About It

I was crawling around on the floor, chasing my cat, Avalanche, as she artfully wriggled away from me over and over again to gnaw at the piece of tape I had stuck to her gray and white fur. Avalanche had unwittingly become a victim of journalistic inquiry: I wanted to explore the latest fad in…

Biology Kristen V. Brown May 3

Report: A DNA Testing Company Could Not Tell the Difference Between Human and Dog DNA

Dog may be man’s best friend, and even genetically similar to humans, to boot, but there are enough key differences that it shouldn’t be too hard to distinguish between human and doggie DNA. And yet, an investigation into home DNA testing kits by NBC Chicago found that at least one DNA testing company could not…

Biology Kristen V. Brown May 2

Pet Food Maker Offers to Cover Vet Bills After Dogs Contract Fatal Disorder

Australian pet food manufacturer Advance Pet is under investigation after its dog food was suspected to be associated with a string of cases involving dogs contracting a digestive disease. Today it announced it would reimburse owners’ vet bills and euthanasia costs after a voluntary recall of its dog food in March, which remains under investigation.…

Tech News Patrick Lucas Austin Apr 30

Delta Airlines Sends Puppy to Wrong City—Multiple Times

Delta is now implicated in the unnerving string of recent dog mishaps that’s rattled America’s skies. On Saturday, the airline was supposed to send a six-week-old dog named Ren from a breeder in Virginia to Boise, Idaho. Instead, the poor pup went to Detroit, where it spent the night, only to be again misrouted to…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 20

United Airlines Re-Routes Plane After Third Dog-Related Mishap of the Week

United Airlines had its third dog-related mishap this week, following up on the death of a puppy its flight attendants allegedly insisted be stuffed in an overhead bin and the accidental shipment of another dog to Japan by putting a third dog in the wrong plane. Per the Washington Post, a United flight from Newark,…

Tech News Tom McKay Mar 18

In an Odd Turn of Events, an NFL Legend Rescued Stan Lee’s Dog

The 95-year-old Stan Lee has had an eventful few months, with reports of his finances in disarray, possible elder abuse, and accusations of sexual harassment on the part of the man himself. Now, by some strange happenstance, Stan Lee’s miniature pomeranian, Charlotte, went missing and happened to be recovered…by NFL legend Jim Brown. (For io9ers…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy Mar 17

After Puppy Dies in Overhead Bin, United Airlines Mistakenly Sends Different Dog to Japan

United Airlines did a very sad, regrettable thing this week when its attendants insisted a passenger store their 10-month-old French bulldog in the overhead bin on a flight from Houston to New York, resulting in said puppy’s untimely death of probable suffocation. In the second story casting doubt on the airline’s canine safety record this…

Tech News Tom McKay Mar 14

These Cute, Pixelated Puppers Will Devour You in This Wolfenstein 3D Mod

You might love Wolfenstein, but I’m not one who can stomach much violence, even when it’s in service of destroying Nazis in all their forms. As a result, I’ve never played more than a few minutes of any Wolfenstein game. That’s why Return to Castle Woofenstein (aka Woof3d), a mod that turns every enemy Nazi…

Tech News Patrick Lucas Austin Mar 14

United Airlines Makes Passenger Put Puppy in Overhead Bin, Puppy Promptly Dies

If you can’t stand a sad story, stop reading now. This one is just as heart-breaking as it is infuriating, and it might make you never fly United again. That’s because United just took responsibility for the death of a puppy, a small dog that just wanted to arrive in New York City unharmed. On…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 13

An Idaho Science Teacher Allegedly Fed a Puppy to a Snapping Turtle in Front of Students

According to a Monday report in East Idaho News, longtime Preston Junior High School science teacher Robert Crosland is in trouble over what Preston School District 201 Superintendent Marc Gee says is a “regrettable circumstance involving some of the biological specimens” for use in Crosland’s classes. The regrettable circumstance was, uh, apparently feeding a puppy…

Biology Tom McKay Mar 13

More Evidence That Dogs ‘See’ the World With Their Powerful Noses

Dogs are equipped with a powerful sense of smell, but scientists haven’t been sure if our canine companions are capable of linking an aroma or scent to a physical object. New research suggests this is very much the case, and that dogs form a mental picture in their mind of the target when they’re tracking…

Biology George Dvorsky Mar 6

It’s Official: Deckard’s Dog in Blade Runner 2049 is the Best Dog

How many dogs can say they’ve won awards? None of them, because dogs can’t speak English. But Deckard’s dog has won one anyway in this year’s Palm Dog USA. The Palm Dog is a competition for dogs of the filmmaking variety. Members of the Barker’s Guild, if you were. The Palm Dog is a mainstay…

Movies Julie Muncy Mar 4

Bee Stings and Cow Kicks Kill Way More Americans Than Sharks

Around 200 people in the U.S. die every year from run-ins with animals, according to a new study, which found that over one million emergency room visits and approximately $2 billion in healthcare spending are attributable annually to problematic animal encounters. While bear or shark attacks might spring to mind, the majority of the deaths…

Earth Science Ari Phillips Mar 1

How Does a Euthanasia Drug Keep Ending Up in Dog Food?

Owners of very good boys and girls might be perturbed by the latest recall to make the news: 27 brands of dog food pulled from warehouses for possibly containing pentobarbital, a sedative used to euthanize both pets and people alike. As Gizmodo has already reported, the recall concerns wet and canned dog foods manufactured by…

Biology Ed Cara Feb 21

An Airline Actually Saved a Dog’s Life for Once

America’s First Dogs Were Wiped Out by Europeans, but Their Genetic Legacy Lives on as a Sexually Transmitted Cancer

Another DNA Testing Company Reportedly Gets Fooled by Dog DNA

This Robot Dog Movie Is Transformers Meets Lassie

Dog-Walking App Wag, Which Is Kind of Like an Uber for Dogs, Reportedly Loses Another Good Boy [Updated]

A Dozen Homeless Dogs From Chernobyl Are Being Put Up for Adoption in the U.S.

I DNA Tested My Cat and She Was Not Happy About It

Report: A DNA Testing Company Could Not Tell the Difference Between Human and Dog DNA

Pet Food Maker Offers to Cover Vet Bills After Dogs Contract Fatal Disorder

Delta Airlines Sends Puppy to Wrong City—Multiple Times

United Airlines Re-Routes Plane After Third Dog-Related Mishap of the Week

In an Odd Turn of Events, an NFL Legend Rescued Stan Lee’s Dog

After Puppy Dies in Overhead Bin, United Airlines Mistakenly Sends Different Dog to Japan

These Cute, Pixelated Puppers Will Devour You in This Wolfenstein 3D Mod

United Airlines Makes Passenger Put Puppy in Overhead Bin, Puppy Promptly Dies

An Idaho Science Teacher Allegedly Fed a Puppy to a Snapping Turtle in Front of Students

More Evidence That Dogs ‘See’ the World With Their Powerful Noses

It’s Official: Deckard’s Dog in Blade Runner 2049 is the Best Dog

Bee Stings and Cow Kicks Kill Way More Americans Than Sharks

How Does a Euthanasia Drug Keep Ending Up in Dog Food?

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