Dogs

Today is Take Your Dog To Work Day. Begun in the U.S. in 1999, the annual event is intended to celebrate the man-canine bond, and encourage the adoption of stray dogs. But some employers, including some offices at AOL, go even further and invite dogs into the office every day in the belief that allowing employees ...

When Bob Page walks through the warehouse of his North Carolina-based dinnerware company, he wears a fanny pack full of pet snacks. He hands them out to 20 or 30 dogs that come to work every day. Replacements Ltd.'s founder has been doing this ritual since 1997, when Page first began allowing his 450 ...

When Gary Downie pushed the stroller of his seven-week-old baby through the streets of his neighborhood in the English town of Chester, he had to snake around an estimated 500 chunks of dog feces that dot the main road. "I am concerned about my children," the father of two told the Chester Leader. "There are ...